The 31-year-old will face Eri Matdusa of Japan on November 23 and can unify three world championship titles of major associations in the atomweight division.
Tina Rupprecht can write German boxing history. The 31-year-old from Augsburg will fight WBO and WBA world champion Eri Matdusa (30) from Japan in Heidelberg on November 23. If she wins, Rupprecht, who was crowned WBC world champion in the atomweight category in January, would unify the world championship titles of three major associations. No German boxer has ever achieved this before.
Furthermore, she could achieve another milestone if she succeeds: she would receive the belt of the renowned boxing magazine “The Ring”. The journalists of the American “Boxing Bible” award this belt when, in their opinion, the two best boxers in the world compete against each other. Only boxing idol Max Schmeling was the first German fighter to achieve this in 1930.
The 1.53-meter-tall Rupprecht moved to the lowest weight class of up to 46.3 kilograms in 2023 after losing her WBC minimum weight title, which she had won in 2018.