Boxing world champion Tina Rupprecht ends her career – the Undisputed Champion in the Minimum is expecting a child and says goodbye to the ring.
She was at the top – and yet she’s calling it quits: Tina Rupprecht, Germany’s most successful female boxer and undisputed minimum champion, has surprisingly announced the end of her career. At the Bavarian Sports Award ceremony in Munich, the 33-year-old announced her retirement from professional boxing. “My active boxing career is officially over, because I’m starting a new phase in my life,” said Rupprecht to applause. The reason: the Augsburg native is expecting a child. A comeback as a mother is “not planned for the time being”.
Rupprecht only made boxing history in April 2025. With her victory over the unbeaten Japanese Sumire Yamanaka in Potsdam, she became the first German boxer to hold all four major world championship belts (WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF) at the same time – an achievement that even the Klitschko brothers never achieved. “I have the feeling it’s perfect. I’ve arrived – even higher than I dreamed of,” she explained at the gala.
In addition to the ring, “Tiny Tina” has also long been successful in real life: the 1.53 meter tall athlete studied education and works as a sports teacher at a secondary school in Zusmarshausen, Bavaria. Rupprecht received the Bavarian Sports Award in the category “Sports Moments for Eternity” – a title that could hardly be more fitting. She leaves the ring as the undisputed world champion and is now embarking on her next big adventure: life as a mother.
Text by Robin Josten