Susianna Kentikian

Susianna Kentikian, known as Susi, was born Syuzanna Kentikyan in Yerevan on 11 September 1987 and is an Armenian-German former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2016. Her family left Armenia when she was five because of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and she has lived in Hamburg since 1996, where she began boxing at the age of 12. She became a German citizen in 2008. A two-time flyweight world champion, she held the unified WBA and WBO female titles between 2007 and 2012 and the WBA title again from 2013 to 2017, and in 2009 she was named the first female Super champion of the WBA. She was inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2022.