{"id":11712,"date":"2021-12-23T10:36:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gambyl.com\/?p=11712"},"modified":"2021-12-23T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:36:49","slug":"sarah-mahfoud-the-featherweight-terror-from-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gambyl.com\/en\/boxing\/sarah-mahfoud-the-featherweight-terror-from-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Mahfoud: The featherweight Terror from the North"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Boxing Profile: Sarah Mahfoud<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Mahfoud<\/strong>\u00a0is a Faroese-Danish professional boxer<\/a>, born 29 September 1989, who has held the\u00a0IBF <\/a>female featherweight\u00a0<\/strong>title since July 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world’s second-best active female featherweight <\/strong>by BoxRec <\/strong>and third by The Ring<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boxing Profile \u2013 Sarah Mahfoud Profesional Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Debut and 2017 Fights:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Mahfoud <\/strong>made her professional debut on 11 February 2017, scoring a first-round technical knockout (TKO) victory over Petra Podraska<\/strong> at the Frederiksberghallen in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had three more fights that year, securing unanimous decision (UD) wins over Ainara Mota<\/strong> in April; Jessica Sanchez<\/strong> in June; and Gabriella Mezei<\/strong> in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 Fights:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

She scored two fourth-round TKO victories in 2018 against Nana Chakhvashvili<\/strong> in January and Vanesa Caballero<\/strong> in September, followed by a UD win over Stephanie Ducastel in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title Fights:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

She won her first professional title on 18 January 2019 at the Nyk\u00f8bing Falster Hallen in Nyk\u00f8bing, Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There, she defeated Bukiwe Nonina<\/strong> for the vacant IBF Inter-Continental female featherweight title<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All three judges scored the bout 100\u201390, 100\u201391, and 98\u201392 in favor of Mafhoud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had one more fight that year; a UD wins over Enerolisa de Leon<\/strong> in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mafhoud vs. Carabajal<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Her first fight of 2020 was for the IBF <\/strong>interim female feather <\/strong>title against defending champion, Brenda Carabajal<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bout took place at the Frederiksberghallen in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mahfoud <\/strong>won via UD with scores of 100\u201390, 98\u201392, and 97\u201393.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Mahfoud\u00a0is a Faroese-Danish professional boxer, born 29 September 1989, who has held the\u00a0IBF female featherweight\u00a0title since July 2020.\u00a0 As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world’s second-best active female featherweight by BoxRec and third by The Ring. Boxing Profile \u2013 Sarah Mahfoud Profesional Career Debut and 2017 Fights: Mahfoud made her professional debut on 11 February 2017, scoring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[211],"tags":[191,429,436,202],"class_list":["post-11712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-profile","tag-featherweight","tag-ibf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"Erwin Noguera","aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t