In addition to her boxing career, Halmich has branched out into the world of business as well, as she became one of the first women boxers to have her own line of cosmetics.

Before fighting for the world championship, she had to meet the likes of Kim Messer, Elena Reid and former world champion Para Draine before meeting Regina Halmich in Germany for the WIBF world Jr. Flyweight title, on August 17, 2002.

Halmich made her professional debut on 4 March 1994, in her hometown of Karlsruhe, defeating Fienie Klee of the Netherlands.

Halmich faced Reka Krempf of Hungary on 13 January 2007 at Halle, Germany's Brandberg Arena, defeating her by unanimous decision for the 44th successful title defense.

Halmich announced her retirement after her farewell fight on 30 November 2007, in which she beat Hagar Finer by majority decision ( 96 – 94, 97 – 94, 95 – 95 ).

Her professional boxing career began on November 2, 1996 with her first world title try, as she went right away and challenged Halmich for the WIBF's world Flyweight title, losing by a second round knockout.

She followed that defeat with two wins in a row, and then, on October 7 of 2000, she and Halmich were rematched in Berlin, once again with the WIBF's world Flyweight championship on the line.

On September 11, 2004 at DM Arena in Karlsruhe, Germany, Elena Reid fought her first title fight when she took on local favorite and German media darling Regina Halmich, for Halmich's WIBF Flyweight Title.

After another win in 8 rounds, on May 29, 2004 she lost against Regina Halmich in a fight for the vacant IWBF Super Flyweight title, in ten rounds by unanimous decision.

Peña-Álvarez would go 12-0-1 in her next 13 fights, before losing a 10-round decision to WIBF Flyweight Champion Regina Halmich on January 17, 2004 in Germany.

* 1976 – Regina Halmich, German female boxer

Halmich was German champion in kickboxing as an amateur in 1992, 1993 and 1994, a year in which she also earned the European title.

Although Halmich broke Stefan Raab's nose during the fight, he at least managed to go the distance with her.

Over 10 hard-fought rounds, Halmich remained the title holder, escaping with a controversial draw.

The disappointing outcome left Reid with a 14-1-5 ( 4 KO ) record, while moving Halmich to 45-1-1 ( 15 KOs ).

* Gonzalez v Halmich fight report

On 9 September 2006 Halmich won her 53rd pro fight, defeating Ria Ramnarine of Trinidad and Tobago by TKO in the sixth round.

A second fight between these two took place in 2007, and Halmich won again.

Trevino caused what perhaps could be described as women's boxing first major upset, technically knocking out the popular and well known Germany fighter Regina Halmich ringside doctors stopped the fight after Regina suffered a major cut under her eye from a four round, knock down action.

This time, the judges had the 10-round fight scored: 96-94, 96-94, 97-93, all for Regina Halmich.

She traveled to Cologne, Germany for a bout against Regina Halmich, in May 2000 which she lost.

After a boxing-match against Regina Halmich in 2001 ( rematch 2007 ) and a speed skating race against Claudia Pechstein in 2002, he also created several other celebrity sports events that are produced regularly, including TV total Turmspringen ( high diving ) and TV total Stock Car Crash Challenge ( stock car racing ).

After four more fights, Elena Reid received a rematch against Regina Halmich.

When Stefan Raab boxed Regina Halmich in spring 2007, Elton promised to participate at the New York City Marathon in case Raab should stand more than 5 rounds.

Regina Halmich ( born 22 November 1976 ) is a female boxer from Germany.

Halmich is among the most successful female boxers of all time, and helped popularise female boxing in Europe.

Halmich has been the WIBF's world champion at the Jr. Flyweight, Flyweight and Super Flyweight division.

Regina Halmich has defeated several quality boxers along her career.

Sutcliffe and Germany's Regina Halmich have helped to increase the popularity of women's boxing in Europe.

Judge Oliver Evers of Germany scored the bout as 98-94 for Halmich, Judge Leszek Jankowiak of Poland assessing it as a 97-97 draw, while Judge Roger Tillerman of Belgium had it 97-93 for Reid.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

The famous Latin Responsa Prudentium (" answers of the learned ones ") were the accumulated views of many successive generations of Roman lawyers, a body of legal opinion which gradually became authoritative.

Hercule Poirot became famous with the publication, in 1926, of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose surprising solution proved controversial.

Under this title the book became famous in the English-speaking world.

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" His " Orphic Sayings ", published in The Dial, became famous for their hilarity as dense, pretentious, and meaningless.

By the middle of the 19th century, industrialisation swept away most of the city's medieval rules of production and commerce, although the entirely corrupt remains of the city's mediæval constitution was kept in place ( compare the famous remarks of Georg Forster in his Ansichten vom Niederrhein ) until 1801, when Aachen became the " chef-lieu du département de la Roer " in Napoléon's First French Empire.

Along with the Pontificale, Ealdred may have brought back from Cologne the first manuscript of the Cambridge Songs to enter England, a collection of Latin Goliardic songs which became famous in the Middle Ages.

He became famous for the simplicity of his way of living and his acute observations on the institutions and customs of the Greeks.

Ares was acquitted, and this event is supposed to have given rise to the name Areopagus ( or Hill of Ares ), which afterward became famous as a court of justice.

Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

Because Dürer left autobiographical writings and became very famous by his mid-twenties, his life is well documented by several sources.

Benny Carter became Fletcher's main arranger in the early 30's, moving on become as famous for his arranging expertise as his musicianship.

Maasstraat became famous as the first group combining reggae with Dutch lyrics, inspiring acts like Postmen, for example.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

He became famous for his knowledge of early Arabian antiquities.

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

There is some uncertainty as to how Deutero-Isaiah and Trito-Isaiah came to be attached to the original Isaiah: the two competing theories are either that Deutero-Isaiah was written as a continuation of Proto-Isaiah, or that it was written separately and became attached to the famous Isaiah later.

" After wearing glasses for a while, his eyes became adjusted to the lenses, and at that point he became nearsighted and really did need glasses, which would years later establish John as one of the most famous " four-eyes " in rock and roll, though Holly is widely considered to be the first.

" It became one of the most famous children ’ s letters ever written and the basis of Potter ’ s future career as a writer-artist-storyteller.

The Brooke dynasty ruled Sarawak for a hundred years and became famous as the " White Rajahs ".

Ian MacGregor later became famous for his role as Chairman of the National Coal Board during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.