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5'11" junior welterweight
Anne-Sophie Mathis was born on June 13, 1977. She lives in Dombasle, France
where she trains at the Club de Dombasle under
coach René Cordier. She is active as a boxer and kickboxer, including the French
sport of savate.
She made her pro boxing debut in Eger, Hungary on October 21, 1995, winning by a
first-round TKO over Erika Szegedi of Szerencs, Hungary who fell to 1-4.
Marischa Sjauw rocks Anne Sophie Mathis, November 1995
Photo courtesy Marcel Niessen
On November 18, 1995 at Landgraaf in The Netherlands, Anee-Sophie was TKO'd in
the fifth round by experienced Dutch boxer Marischa Sjauw
in a bout for the WIBF European Super Welterweight title. Marischa dropped Mathis three times on the way to
the fifth-round TKO.
Sjauw improved to 6-0-1 with this win. On December 11, 1999 in savate competition in Paris, France:
Anne-Sophie Mathis defeated Sandra Geiger on points.
On November 21, 2003 at Loures Pavilion in Lisbon, Portugal, over 3000 people
saw WAKO pro world 64-kg champion Dina Pedro of Portugal win a five-round
majority decision over Anne-Sophie.
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December 6, 2003 in Dombasle, France Anne-Sophie returned to pro boxing and won by a second-round TKO over Katalin Csehi
of Békéscsaba, Hungary, who fell to 3-4-0 (0 KO).
On February 27, 2004 in Hyeres, France, Anne-Sophie (139¾ lbs) won a six-round
decision over Larisa Berezenko (140 lbs) of the Ukraine, who fell to 0-2 with
this loss.
On April 17, 2004 in Gravelines, France
Anne-Sophie (140¾ lbs) TKO'd pro debuter Daniela David (136¼ lbs) of France in the final round of
a scheduled six-rounder.
On May 26, 2004 in Matoury, France, Anne-Sophie (139 lbs) repeated the
sixth-round TKO win in a rematch with Daniela David (139 lbs).
On June 11, 2004 in Nancy, France, Anne-Sophie (139 lbs) won by a first-round
TKO over pro debuter Alexandra Vajdova (5'9", 139 lbs) of Nitra, Slovakia in a
scheduled six-rounder.
On November 27, 2004 in Hussigny, France, Anne-Sophie (139½ lbs) won by a
sixth-round TKO over Borislava Goranova (5'6", 139 lbs) of Sofia, Bulgaria, who
fell to 3-9-0 (0 KO's) with the loss.
On March 19, 2005 in Metz, France, Anne-Sophie TKO'd Larisa Berezenko in the
fifth round of a scheduled six-rounder. Berezenko fell to 0-5 as a pro boxer
with this second loss to Mathis.
Anne-Sophie attacks Nathalie Toro, October 2005
Photo: Dombasle-Boxe.com
On October 29, 2005 in Dombasle, France,
Anne-Sophie (139¼ lbs) won by a ninth round TKO over Nathalie
Toro (137¼ lbs) of Luik, Belgium in a scheduled ten-rounder for Toro's EBU
European Junior Welterweight title.
A WBAN insider said that the fight
was "an incredible all-action bout between the two boxers, with the
crowd standing throughout. The bout was considered one of the best fights on the
card. Nathalie had been hit hard in the second and third rounds, but stayed
standing. She recovered, knowing she was behind on points. Toro came back
with her own artillery in the later rounds, hitting her hard in 6, 7, 8 round.
But at the end of the ninth round, Toro got hit with a hard combination of a
left/right, and she fell to the canvas. The ref counted her to nine, and then
stopped the fight." Toro suffered her first defeat as a pro boxer and fell to 14-1.
On October 14, 2006 at Salle
des Sports Roger Boileau
in Dombasle, France, Anne-Sophie TKO'd Borislava Goranova of
Sofia, Bulgaria in the fifth round of a scheduled six-rounder to move her record
to 10-1-1 (9 KOs).
“Anne-Sophie dominated her Bulgarian opponent,” reports
L'Est Républicain,
“without
giving her the slightest chance.” Rather
than exploiting her reach, as she had initially planned, Mathis
reportedly made devastating use of the uppercut.
Goranova fell to 3-15-0 (0 KOs).
On December 2, 2006 at the Palais Omnisport in Bercy,
Paris, France, she TKO'd Myriam Lamare of Marseille,
France in the seventh round to win the WBA and WIBF Junior Welterweight
titles. As described by WBAN correspondent Ewan
Whyte, the fight was "a real thriller, with Mathis – the more accurate
puncher – generally in control and seeming on several occasions to have Lamare
hurt, only for Lamare to counter-attack with a feral intensity, driving the
gangling blonde backwards to restore the balance ... until the last time.
Mathis had hurt her earlier in the seventh and Lamare had recovered, throwing
her massive, looping left hook, (and missing), but you could see she was
unsteady now on her feet; and as she shoved Mathis backwards to escape from the
ropes, she was caught by a short right; then another a few seconds later; then a
third – beaten to the punch as she threw the left for umpteenth time without
connecting – and suddenly there was nothing! Mathis drove a left, a right, and a
left through her guard; then a looping right round the outside that caught her
on the side of the jaw, followed by a left a split-second later, and the rout
was total: Lamare's dense, muscle-bound body began to go backwards, slowly at
first, but then with gathering momentum, the way a car does when you have to
bump-start it on a cold morning, as the blonde drove her backwards into the
corner with a cruel, exultant, snarl. And just as the first commentator was
correcting "Elle est fatiguée!" ("She's tired!") to "Elle est KO debout!".
("She's out on her feet!") "… MYRIAM EST KO DEBOUT!!", the other cut in with "Il
l'a arrêté!" (He's stopped it!). And indeed he had. And Mathis was the new world
champion." Mathis inproved to 13-1-1 (12 KOs) whle Lamare fell
to 14-1-0 (7 KOs).
On June 29, 2007 at Palais des Sports in Marseille,
Bouches du Rhone, France, 5,500 fans saw Mathis (139½ lbs) win a
ten-round majority (98-93,98-92,95-95) decision over Myriam Lamare (140 lbs) of
Marseille in a rematch for the WBA Junior Welterweight title.
The much shorter Lamare pressed the action early and scored well with jabs on the way in and
with damaging hooks once inside. However, by the fourth round Lamare began to tire from
what appeared to be an effort to knock Mathis ut early, and Mathis then began to take
control of the bout with clinical precision. Lamare began to back out of punishing exchanges,
but the hard-hitting Mathis was able to walk her down and dominate the action with
her power and size advantage. Lamare fell to
to 14-2 (7 KO's), both losses coming to Mathis.
On December 8, 2007 at La Palestre in Le Cannet, France,
Anne-Sophie (141 lbs) TKO'd Jane Couch (143¼
lbs) of Bristol, U.K. in the second round of a scheduled six-rounder.
According to a
report
by WBAN correspondent Ewan Whyte, "(Couch) took a clobbering, admittedly, in
the first round, but the second was only 30 seconds old when the referee decided
he'd seen enough and sprang to her rescue, sparing Couch an even more
ignominious fate". Couch protested the stoppage but Mathis opined that
"It's true the decision was a bit hard on her, but I was about to finish her off
anyway... She'd have gone down seconds later." Mathis also said that she was
disappointed the Englishwoman hadn't given her more of a workout. "I need to
fight," she said, "but when you get a chance to finish a match, you
finish it. …. What I can't understand is how she lasted ten rounds with Clampitt."
The
39-year-old Couch fell to 28-11-0 (9 KOs).
On March 8, 2008 at the Palais des Sports de Saint Symphorien in Metz, France,
Ann-Sophie added the UBC and WBC Junior Welterweight belts to her WBA title with
a third-round TKO of 40-year-old Ana Pascal of Panama. According to
Christian Chataignier of
WBA Women´s Online, "After an
initial round where nothing happened, Pascal was quickly overwhelmed. In the
second round, an uppercut to the face sent the Panamanian down. A few moments
later she suffered another knockdown with a blow to the body. When the third
round began, it was clear that the end was near, and after a new series blows
from Mathis, the referee stopped the fight." Mathis improved her
record to 18-1-1 (16 KO's) while Pascal fell to 11-1-0 (5 KO's). Pascal has
boxed professionally since 1998 but this was her first bout outside Panama and
Colombia.
To check out fight reports, complete up-to-date boxing records, with huge digital photos you can go to
the WBAN Records Member Site
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