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Susianna Kentikian (born 1987) is a German professional boxer. She was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, but she left the country with her family at the age of five due to the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Kentikian has lived in Hamburg since 1996 and began boxing when she was twelve years old. Following a successful amateur career, she turned professional in 2005 when she signed with the Hamburg boxing promoter Spotlight Boxing. Kentikian won her first world championship fight in February 2007, and she is the current World Boxing Association (WBA) and Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) world flyweight champion. Kentikian is undefeated, having won 16 of her 23 professional fights by knockout. Since 2007, the German television station ProSieben has broadcast her fights live. Kentikian has gained minor celebrity status in Germany, and she hopes to reach popularity similar to the retired German female boxing star Regina Halmich. (more...)

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