1. Christina Hammer challenged once for the WBO female light-middleweight title in 2014 and once for the undisputed female middleweight championship against Claressa Shields in 2019.
49 Facts About Christina Hammer
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Christina Hammer is known for her patient and methodical boxing style, wearing her opponents down with jabs and increasingly aggressive follow-up rights.
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Christina Hammer was born 16 August 1990 in Nowodolinka, Kazakh SSR, before emigrating with her parents to Sontra, Germany, in 1991.
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Christina Hammer's parents left Kazakhstan as they saw a better future for the whole family in Germany, with the quality of education and quality of life, while Hammer spoke of being raised to never give up.
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Christina Hammer developed a passion for sports through football, running, swimming, and at the age of 13, she was introduced to boxing after her uncles allowed her to accompany them to boxing gyms.
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Christina Hammer trained in Eschwege under Robert Staar, while going on to become a junior champion three years later.
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Christina Hammer initially finished her amateur career with a record of 22 wins and 1 loss.
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Christina Hammer made her professional debut at the age of 19 on 12 September 2009 at the Gewerbehof Schlutius in Magdeburg against German fighter Melisa Koktar, whom Christina Hammer defeated via technical knockout in the second round.
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On 23 October 2010, Christina Hammer stepped up her level of competition and faced Teresa Perozzi for the vacant WBO middleweight title at Erdgas Arena in Riesa, Germany, with the fight shown on Sport1.
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Southpaw Perozzi began the fight by applying a lot of pressure and setting a fast pace which forced Christina Hammer to think more about defense than in her previous fights.
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The action was even at first Christina Hammer began to score repeatedly to the head of Perozzi in the later rounds.
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Perozzi kept trying to press her offense but Christina Hammer's right delivered the better shots in a fight that often looked closer than the scorecards suggested.
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On 18 February 2011, Christina Hammer added the vacant WBF middleweight title to her belt collection, on the undercard of Jan Zaveck defending his IBF welterweight title against Paul Delgado at the Stozice Sports Park in Ljubljana, Slovenia, when Kiss retired in her corner between the seventh and eighth rounds of a scheduled ten-rounder.
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Christina Hammer started aggressively and used her reach to control the action.
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On 21 October 2011, at the Brandenburg Halle in Frankfurt, Germany, Christina Hammer won a ten-round unanimous decision over American Vashon Living, defending her the WBO and WBF middleweight titles.
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Living, who was at a significant size disadvantage, was mobile and agile as she attempted to get to close quarters and work inside, but Christina Hammer was still able use her reach advantage to control the pace.
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Christina Hammer landed two accurate uppercuts in the seventh and Living appeared to be worn down by the taller Christina Hammer's blows in the closing rounds.
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On 5 April 2012, at the Sportovni hala Vodova in Brno, Czech Republic, Christina Hammer made her third defense of her WBF and WBO middleweight titles, in which she impressively dominated the proceedings to retain her titles with a unanimous decision win over Julie Tshabalala of South Africa.
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Christina Hammer had predicted a knockout victory, with Tshabalala taking the fight on the inside to avoid the long range and hard straight shots from Christina Hammer, who adjusted nicely and countered with hooks and uppercuts.
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Tshabalala had her best moments in rounds six and seven, and seemed to be catching her second wind, but Christina Hammer was back on top in the final three rounds, making Tshabalala miss and pay for her mistakes.
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Christina Hammer came in at 70.3 kilograms, while Hernandez weighed a few grams too much in first gear, to which her manager, Daniel Born, acted resolutely and cut off the boxer's pigtails, which resulted in the weight being corrected to the point.
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Christina Hammer won an overwhelming ten-round unanimous decision over Yahaira Hernandez.
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Christina Hammer's punches felt as if she had rocks in her gloves.
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Christina Hammer put on a dominant performance and used her superior boxing skills to outbox the heavier Zatyko.
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In round four, Christina Hammer scored a knockdown, and only the bell saved the visibly hurt, but brave, Zatyko.
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Lauren tried everything she could to get the upper hand, but Christina Hammer was effective with hard counter combinations and rarely let her opponent get the better of the exchanges.
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Balogun will be moving up from 147 pounds, but she insisted that the added weight will only make her stronger, that Christina Hammer has never faced anybody with her style, while having full of confidence that she has what it takes to cause an upset.
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Christina Hammer enjoyed a four-inch height advantage over Balogun, a trait which she exploited over the course of the ten-round fight.
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Christina Hammer appeared relaxed throughout keeping her hard-charging opponent at arm's distance landing at will with straight punches from the outside.
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Suddenly, Christina Hammer went down to the canvas and struggled to come back to her feet.
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Christina Hammer won the WBF and vacant WBO junior-middleweight titles via a controversial DQ over Mathis.
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The slow motion replay showed that it was Christina Hammer who was fouling by holding Mathis' left arm and still got knocked out.
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Christina Hammer spent the first four rounds hanging her arm and she was not notified.
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On 7 August 2014, after reviewing the bout, the WBO agreed with the WBF and BDB and declared it a 'no-contest' and did not order a rematch since Christina Hammer is the organization's reigning middleweight champion.
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On 23 January 2015, it was announced that SES Boxing will present its milestone 100th boxing event on 7 March at the Maritim Hotel in Magdeburg, with Christina Hammer being included on the card.
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On 27 January 2015, it was announced that Christina Hammer would make her eighth defense of her WBO title at the Maritim Hotel in Magdeburg against world No 2 Kali Reis.
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In February 2016, at the Dortmund Sportsman of the Year awards, Christina Hammer spoke of her intention of fighting for the WBC title, as well as possibly moving up to super-middleweight, with conformation in June 2016 that Christina Hammer will have an eight-round bout and within October a world title fight.
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In September 2016, Christina Hammer mentioned possible opponents for her next bout being WBC Silver champion Kelly Morgan, while mentioning a rematch with WBC champion Kali Reis to unify the WBO and the WBC titles.
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Christina Hammer had no issues whatsoever with Lindberg, handily outboxing her shorter opponent from range.
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On 31 October 2017, it was reported by Pia that Christina Hammer has a concrete offer for four bouts in America, all being transmitted by either HBO or Showtime.
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On 4 November 2017, Christina Hammer retained her WBO and WBC middleweight titles with a fourth-round knockout win over Gifty Amanua Ankrah at the SportScheck Allwetteranlage in Munich.
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In January 2018, The Ring reported that Christina Hammer was due to appear on the undercard of Claressa Shields vs Tori Nelson on 12 January due to a delay in her work via, Christina Hammer will have to wait to the spring for her United States debut.
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On 24 April 2018, The Guardian announced that Christina Hammer was set to defend her WBO and WBC middleweight titles against former champion Tori Nelson at the Detroit Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, on 22 June, with the fight shown on Showtime.
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Christina Hammer smartly exploited her height and reach advantages by keeping the fight at long range but moving inside just often enough to win the majority of the exchanges.
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Also with the fight already in hand, Christina Hammer throttled down from 53 punches in round nine to 36 in the 10th.
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On 27 January 2019, it was announced that Christina Hammer would fight Elene Sikmashvili at the Verti Music Hall in Friedrichshain on 9 February, as Christina Hammer wished to box in Germany before fighting Shields sometime in 2019.
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On 13 April 2019, Christina Hammer lost the WBC and WBO titles via unanimous decision in her bid to become the undisputed women's middleweight champion.
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In July 2012, Christina Hammer received her certificate of having passed her Abitur, which allowed her to study sports science at the University of Applied Management in Unna.
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Christina Hammer is a brand ambassador for the underwear line Anita, for which she occasionally models, while being a part of Movement130, which encourages females of all shapes, sizes, and lifestyles to embrace their own distinctive beauty.