Alejandra Jiménez

Alejandra Jiménez Ayala (born 29 August 1987) is a Mexican former professional boxer who held the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title from 2016 to 2018. She also won the WBC and World Boxing Organization (WBO) super middleweight titles in 2020 but was stripped a short time later after failing a drug test.

Career Jiménez took up boxing at the age of 23 in order to lose weight and went on to become a world champion less than four years later. Before turning pro Jiménez won 10 amateur bouts, half of them coming against male boxers. Jiménez is the former WBC female heavyweight champion and the second Mexican-born boxer to hold a world heavyweight title, first being Martha Salazar who Jiménez won the title from on 18 March 2016.

She defeated Franchón Crews-Dezurn by split decision to win the WBC and WBO female super middleweight titles on 11 January 2020. However, in February 2020, the result of the fight was changed to a "no decision," due to Jimenez having failed a pre-fight drug test and she was subsequently suspended for nine months and stripped of the titles.

In December 2022, Jiménez retired from professional boxing amid allegations that she was born male. In response to the allegations, Jiménez stated that she has hypothyroidism.

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