Alejandra Jimenez beats Franchon Crews-Dezurn to become the Unified Women's Super Middleweight Champion at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on January 11, 2020.
What a fantasic contest. Jimenez and Crews-Dezurn put on a show for 30 minutes with each woman having their moments. But it came down to Jimenez landing the harder shots consistently, pushing the pace and making Crews-Dezurn compete from behind.
Jimenez called out women's junior middleweight and undisputed women's middleweight champion Claressa Shields. I wouldn't mind seeing Jimenez and Crews-Dezurn run it back as it was much closer than the judges' scorecards indicated. (Source: DAZN)
Alejandra Jimenez - I feel great! This is amazing! I’ve accomplished one of my biggest dreams. I’m getting some action for my family, my daughters; I’ve been away from my family for a long time. This win is for them, my team, and my country, particularly my Cancun that I love so much.
Franchon Crews-Dezurn - I’m heartbroken, but I’ve been here before. This is a learning experience, I have to go back and regroup with my team because I don’t think a decision on my favor was that far. This was a tough fight for me. This was my 8th fight, but I’m still learning and growing in the ring.Alejandra Jimenez
Alejandra Jimenez is a Mexican professional boxer. She is a two-weight world champion having held the unified WBC, and WBO female super middleweight titles since January 2020 and previously the WBC female heavyweight title from 2016 to 2018. Jimenez took up boxing at the age of 23 in order to lose weight and went on to become a world champion less than 4 years later. Before turning pro Jimenez won 10 amateur bouts, half of them coming against male boxers. Jimenez is the former WBC World Heavyweight Champion and the second Mexican born to hold a World Heavyweight title, first being Martha Salazar who Jimenez won the title from.
Franchon Crews-Dezurn
Franchon Crews a contestant on the popular TV show called “American Idol” in 2005 is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia but resides in Baltimore, Maryland. A rising international amateur boxing champion has accumulated 13 national titles, 5 Pan American Continental championships and 2012 World Silver Medal.
She has competed domestically and internationally in world tournaments in Podolsk, Russia (05), Buenos Aires, Argentina (’06) Guayaquil, Ecuador (’07), Trinidad & Tobago (08),Guadalajara, Mexico (’11), London, England (’11), Canada (’12), Venezuela ('13) and Russia ('13). After returning from a two year break Franchon Crews made history by becoming one of the first women in US history to be on the women’s Pan American boxing team. Just missing her chance at making the first ever Women’s Olympic team in 2012 she moved up to a heavier weight class of 178 lbs. and won the #2 ranking in the world.
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Golden Boy Boxing
Los Angeles-based Golden Boy Promotions was established in 2002 by Oscar de la Hoya, the first Hispanic to own a national boxing promotional company. Golden Boy Promotions is one of boxing’s most active and respected promoters, presenting shows in packed venues around the United States on networks such as HBO, SHOWTIME, Televisa, TV Azteca, Estrella TV and FOX Sports Networks.
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DAZN
Home of the biggest fights and the biggest names in boxing. The service carries live and on-demand streaming of events from various properties. DAZN first launched in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Japan in August 2016, and in Canada the following year. It launched in the United States and Italy in 2018, and in Spain and Brazil in 2019.
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