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Lucia Rijker

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Lucia Frederica Rijker (born December 6, 1967) is a Dutch professional female boxer, kickboxer, and actress. [1]

62 relations: Academy Awards, Achilles tendon, Actor, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Arena, Andrea DeShong, Arnhem, Biloxi, Mississippi, Bob Arum, Bonnie Canino, Buddhism, Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, Chevelle Hallback, Christy Martin (boxer), Clermont-Ferrand, Corpus Christi, Texas, Diana Dutra, Diana Prazak, Dora and Cora Webber, Freddie Roach (boxing), Frida Wallberg, Hamburg, Hollywood, Inside Kung Fu, International Sport Karate Association, Intracerebral hemorrhage, Jamie's Dream School, Jane Couch, Judo, Kickboxing, Laila Ali, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Strip, Light welterweight, List of IBO female world champions, List of K-1 events, Los Angeles, Mandalay Bay, Marcela Acuña, Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, Miami, Michele Aboro, Million Dollar Baby, Muay Thai, Netherlands, Oldham, Paris, Reno, Nevada, Rollerball (2002 film), Romulan, ..., Ronda Rousey, Rotterdam, Shadow Boxers, Star Trek (film), Suriname, The L Word, Tokyo, Uncasville, Connecticut, Women's boxing, Women's International Boxing Federation, World Boxing Council, World Kickboxing Association. Expand index (12 more) »

Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Achilles tendon

The Achilles tendon or heel cord, also known as the calcaneal tendon, is a tendon of the back of the leg, and the thickest in the human body.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Amsterdam Arena

The Amsterdam Arena (officially stylised as "Amsterdam ArenA") is a stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Andrea DeShong

Andrea DeShong (born March 16, 1962 in Mingo Junction, Ohio) is a former United States female boxer who is best remembered for defeating Christy Martin in Martin's fourth professional bout.

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Arnhem

Arnhem (or; Arnheim, Frisian: Arnhim, South Guelderish: Èrnem) is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands.

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Biloxi, Mississippi

Biloxi is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.

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Bob Arum

Robert Arum (born December 8, 1931) is an American lawyer, boxing promoter and businessman.

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Bonnie Canino

Bonnie Canino (born 11 January 1962) is a former women's boxing world featherweight champion for two different associations.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon

Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon (born 1960) is a stunt woman, stunt double, and stunt driver in the US movie industry.

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Chevelle Hallback

Chevelle Lynvette Hallback (born September 3, 1971) is a female boxer from Plant City, Florida.

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Christy Martin (boxer)

Christy Renea Martin (born June 12, 1968) is a former American world champion boxer.

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Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand (Auvergnat Clharmou, Augustonemetum) is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 141,569 (2012).

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Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi, colloquially Corpus (Latin: Body of Christ), is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Diana Dutra

Diana Mary Dutra (born September 23, 1964), better known plainly as Diana Dutra, is a Canadian former female boxer.

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Diana Prazak

Diana Prazak is a professional female boxer from Australia.

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Dora and Cora Webber

Dora Webber and Cora Webber (born December 5, 1958) are twin sisters who participate in women's boxing.

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Freddie Roach (boxing)

Frederick Steven "Freddie" Roach (born March 5, 1960) is an American boxing trainer and former professional boxer.

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Frida Wallberg

FW born April 28, 1983 in Åtvidaberg in Östergötland, Sweden, is a retired Swedish boxer.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (locally), Hamborg, officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),Constitution of Hamburg), is the second-largest city of Germany as well as one of the country's 16 constituent states, with a population of roughly 1.8 million people. The city lies at the core of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region which spreads across four German federal states and is home to more than five million people. The official name reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, a city-state and one of the 16 states of Germany. Before the 1871 Unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign state. Prior to the constitutional changes in 1919 it formed a civic republic headed constitutionally by a class of hereditary grand burghers or Hanseaten. The city has repeatedly been beset by disasters such as the Great Fire of Hamburg, exceptional coastal flooding and military conflicts including World War II bombing raids. Historians remark that the city has managed to recover and emerge wealthier after each catastrophe. Situated on the river Elbe, Hamburg is home to Europe's second-largest port and a broad corporate base. In media, the major regional broadcasting firm NDR, the printing and publishing firm italic and the newspapers italic and italic are based in the city. Hamburg remains an important financial center, the seat of Germany's oldest stock exchange and the world's oldest merchant bank, Berenberg Bank. Media, commercial, logistical, and industrial firms with significant locations in the city include multinationals Airbus, italic, italic, italic, and Unilever. The city is a forum for and has specialists in world economics and international law with such consular and diplomatic missions as the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the EU-LAC Foundation, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning. In recent years, the city has played host to multipartite international political conferences and summits such as Europe and China and the G20. Former German Chancellor italic, who governed Germany for eight years, and Angela Merkel, German chancellor since 2005, come from Hamburg. The city is a major international and domestic tourist destination. It ranked 18th in the world for livability in 2016. The Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 2015. Hamburg is a major European science, research, and education hub, with several universities and institutions. Among its most notable cultural venues are the italic and italic concert halls. It gave birth to movements like Hamburger Schule and paved the way for bands including The Beatles. Hamburg is also known for several theatres and a variety of musical shows. St. Pauli's italic is among the best-known European entertainment districts.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Inside Kung Fu

Inside Kung Fu was a monthly United States magazine founded in December 1973.

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International Sport Karate Association

The International Sport Karate Association (ISKA) is one of the major international bodies regulating sport karate and kickboxing matches, and is based in the United States.

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Intracerebral hemorrhage

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), also known as cerebral bleed, is a type of intracranial bleed that occurs within the brain tissue or ventricles.

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Jamie's Dream School

Jamie's Dream School is a seven-part British television documentary series made by Fresh One Productions, first aired on Channel 4.

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Jane Couch

Jane Couch, (born 14 August 1968) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2007.

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Judo

was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy in Japan, in 1882, by Jigoro Kano (嘉納治五郎).

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Kickboxing

Kickboxing is a group of stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate mixed with boxing.

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Laila Ali

Laila Amaria Ali (born December 30, 1977) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2007.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of South Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos.

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Light welterweight

Light welterweight, also known as junior welterweight or super lightweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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List of IBO female world champions

The following is a list of female world champions in the International Boxing Organization.

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List of K-1 events

This is a list of events held and scheduled by the K-1, a kickboxing promotion based in Hong Kong.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Mandalay Bay

Mandalay Bay is a 43-story luxury resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.

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Marcela Acuña

Marcela Eliana Acuña (born October 16, 1976 in Formosa) is an Argentine female boxer, and part-time politician who is nicknamed La Tigresa.

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Mashantucket Pequot Tribe

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is a federally recognized Native American nation in the state of Connecticut.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Michele Aboro

Michele Aboro (born 17 July 1967 in London, England) is a British female boxer of Nigerian descent who currently resides in Shanghai, China.

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Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood, and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman.

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Muay Thai

Muay Thai (มวยไทย) or Thai boxing is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Oldham

Oldham is a town in Greater Manchester, England, amid the Pennines and between the rivers Irk and Medlock, southeast of Rochdale and northeast of Manchester.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe.

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Rollerball (2002 film)

Rollerball is a 2002 remake of the 1975 science-fiction film of the same name.

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Romulan

The Romulans are an extraterrestrial humanoid species in the science fiction franchise Star Trek.

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Ronda Rousey

Ronda Jean Rousey (born February 1, 1987) is an American professional wrestler, actress, mixed martial artist and judoka.

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Rotterdam

Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea.

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Shadow Boxers

Shadow Boxers is a 1999 American documentary film about women's boxing by director Katya Bankowsky that focuses on the pioneering fighter Lucia Rijker and features an original soundtrack by Argentine singer and songwriter Zoel.

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Star Trek (film)

Star Trek is a 2009 American science fiction adventure film directed by J. J. Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman.

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Suriname

Suriname (also spelled Surinam), officially known as the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a sovereign state on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.

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The L Word

The L Word is an American/Canadian co-production television drama series portraying the lives of a group of lesbians and their friends, connections, family, and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Uncasville, Connecticut

Uncasville is an area in the town of Montville, Connecticut, United States.

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Women's boxing

Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing’s history, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses to women boxers, and most nations officially banning the sport.

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Women's International Boxing Federation

The Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) is one of the more recognized world championship fight sanctioning organizations in women's boxing.

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World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) and one of the two original sanctioning bodies (along with the WBA).

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World Kickboxing Association

The World Kickboxing Association (WKA) is one of the oldest and the largest amateur and professional sanctioning organizations of kickboxing in the world for the sport.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Rijker

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