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Alesia Graf
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Real name Alesia-Tamara Klimovich
Nickname(s) The Tigress
Rated at
  • Super-flyweight
  • Bantamweight
  • Super-bantamweight
Height 5 ft 7 in
Reach 63 in
Nationality German
Born (1980-10-14)14 October 1980
Gomel, Belarusian SSR, USSR
Died March 2024(2024-03-00) (aged 43)
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 37
Wins 29
Wins by KO 13
Losses 8

Alesia Graf (born Alesia-Tamara Klimovich; 14 October 1980 – March 2024) was a Belarusian-born German professional boxer who held the WIBF super-flyweight title from 2008 to 2009. She also challenged for the WBC female super-flyweight title twice between 2010 and 2014; the WBC female bantamweight title twice between 2014 and 2017; and the WBO female junior-featherweight title in 2019.

Graf boxed from 2001. She trained with Heinz Schultz in Stuttgart and with Thorsten Schmitz in Hamburg. Her professional debut was on 14 February 2004. In May 2005, she suffered her first and only defeat against Jamaican Alicia Ashley. She was under contract with Universum Box-Promotion.

Personal life

Graf was born in Gomel, Belarus, and was separated from her mother and sister when she was 6 and reunited with them in 2014.

Graf's death at the age of 43 was announced on 25 March 2024.

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