(AUG 30) WBAN would like to pay a
special Tribute to France's World Champion Angelique Ducehmin,
just 26 years old when passed away yesterday. Ducehmin a
professional female boxer with a undefeated boxing record of
14-0 (3KO), winning the WBF Featherweight World title on May 12,
2017 when she defeated Ericka Rousseau by a ten-round unanimous
decision.
In April of 2017, Ducehmin
successfully defended her EBU Super Featherweight World
title when she on a ten-round unanimous decision over Taossy
LHadji. She originally won the EBU title in 2015 when she
defeated Maria Semertzoglou by a decision.
According to news stories on the net, she was training in her
boxing gym in Perpignan, France when she collapsed.
It was reported that she fell ill while training in her
gym, and she had received a cardiac massage before being rushed
to the hospital in Perpignan. She passed away in the
hospital with an apparent pulmonary embolism.
WBAN would like to extend our condolences to her friends and
family.