Carolina Duer

Carolina Raquel Duer (born 5 August 1978 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine professional boxer.

She has held world titles in the super flyweight and bantamweight divisions, including the World Boxing Organization (WBO) super flyweight and bantamweight titles, as well as the International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight title. Duer, who is Jewish and of Syrian immigrant background, has been described as the first Jewish woman to win a WBO title. Duer attended a Jewish day school and Maccabi club, and celebrated her Bat Mitzvah in the Iona Hebrew Center, a Conservative synagogue. She attended the Jaim Najman Bialik Primary School in Buenos Aires. She won the WBO super flyweight title (fighters weighing 112 pounds to 115 pounds) in December 2010 by defeating Loredana Piazza by decision, and defended the title six times. In July 2012, Duer made the fifth defense of her WBO super flyweight title, defeating Romanian European champion Corina Carlescu by technical knockout in the fifth round in La Plata. In July 2013, she moved up to bantamweight and defeated Venezuelan Mayra Alejandra Gómez by unanimous decision to win the WBO bantamweight title, becoming the first Jewish woman to hold a WBO crown.

Three years later, on August 26, 2016, and after a pause in her career due to her maternity, Duer won for the third time the IBF world bantamweight after defeating the Brazilian boxer Aline Scaranello by technical knockout. She lost the title in her first defense, to María Cecilia Román, by split decision.

Television

In 2013, Duer took part in the reality TV show Celebrity Splash! (Argentina), which teaches celebrities the art of diving.

In 2014, Duer began working as a boxing commentator for Argentine National Public Television. That year, she was also announced as a special commentator for Argentine television coverage of the rematch between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas.

Professional boxing record