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Former German boxing world champion Alesia Graf has died at the age of 43. Boxing star Regina Halmich is deeply shocked.
Hamburg – The boxing world is mourning the loss of former boxing world champion Alesia Graf. The German with Belarusian roots has died at the age of 43. This was confirmed by her former boxing stable Universum to SIDThe reasons for her death are still completely unclear. Her friend, long-time boxing world champion Regina Halmich, bid her an emotional farewell.
Boxing world champion Alesia Graf dies at the age of 43
“I am shocked and stunned. You were not only a training partner and world champion, but also a friend,” Halmich wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of the two boxers together on the red carpet. “43 years old – far too young to go. I don’t understand it. What sad news. RIP Alesia,” were Halmich’s moving words.
Actually, she could tell so many more “stories about you, what made you special and how special you were,” Halmich continues, but at the moment she is not in a position to do so. Under the picture, some well-known figures from the martial arts scene express their condolences. “Oh my God! Everything is freezing right now,” writes former kickboxing world champion Christine Theiss.
Former boxing world champion Alesia Graf has died at the age of 43. © IMAGO/Frank Hoermann/SVEN SIMON
Boxing star Halmich mourns the loss of her former colleague Alesia Graf
Graf came to Germany in 1999 and has been in the ring in the bantamweight division since 2001. She received German citizenship in 2008. Initially an amateur boxer, she won the title of International German Champion in 2003. She then received an offer from the Hamburg boxing stable Universum Boxpromotion and worked as a professional boxer from then on.
Under her fighting name “The Tigress”, she won the GBU world title in February 2006 and the important WIBF world title in March 2008, which Halmich had also held from 1995 to 2007. In September 2010, she missed out on the WBC world title with a defeat to the Mexican Ana Maria Torres. She finally ended her career in 2019. She won 26 of a total of 29 fights.
“My deepest condolences to the family. Alesia was a great woman, very hard-working in training. She was very ambitious and strong-willed. Alongside Regina Halmich, she was one of our best women in boxing,” said former Universum manager Peter Hanraths to Bild. (LuHa)
