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5'6" junior welterweight Lucia "Rijker-Striker" Rijker of Holland, now living in Los Angeles, California, may be the world's most dangerous female fighter on a pound-for-pound basis. She has been referred to as �The Most Dangerous Woman in the World,� and �Queen of Lightning�.
Born in Amsterdam on December 7, 1967, Rijker began training in judo at the age of six.
At seven, she became a member of the Dutch National Softball Team. At thirteen, she took up fencing and won the Amsterdam championship, going on to become the Netherlands' junior champion.
Claressa Shields hugs Lucia Rijker right after Rijker was inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in July of 2014. Shields also came up to the podium and spoke to the audience at the IWBHF Event.
Photo Credit: Dalia Duran
Rijker began kickboxing at age 15, studying in the gym of Johan Vas, one of the most respected training facilities in Holland and training She burst into prominence in the kickboxing world in her sixth match on January 15, 1984 ... disabling veteran American champion Lilly Rodriguez (sister of then world champion k
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Don’t Call Me ‘Baby’
Lucia Rijker is a woman, and a beautiful one at that. Widely regarded as the best female boxer in the world, Rijker plays the evil Billie “The Blue Bear” in Clint Eastwood’s “Million Dollar Baby”--the dirty fighter upon whose gloves the movie turns. Her five on-screen minutes are some of the most vicious sequences in the cinematic fight game. And yet.
I got it into my head that I would like to spar with Rijker. “I wouldn’t if I were you,” said one of her former trainers, Freddie Roach of the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles. I assured him that I would ask Rijker to go easy on me. He scoffed. “Once she gets in the ring, she doesn’t do easy.”
Born in Holland, Rijker came to Los Angeles in 1994 and is undefeated (17-0) in the junior welterweight division (145 pounds), with no good challengers on the horizon. Even after “Million Dollar Baby,” women’s boxing is still a comparatively small stage dominated by one iconic fighter at a time, one who can command the big paydays. At the moment that fighter is Laila Ali, Muhammad Ali’s daughter, who outweighs Rijker by 20 pounds.
My own boxing career ended on a cool day in September 1978. Actually, it was warm outside, but the canvas was so cool and so flat. What a pretty ceiling. I could have lain there forever.
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Interview dressingdown LUCIA RIJKER by Serge TREFEU (2012)
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