Joana Pastrana
Joana Pastrana Gallardo is a Spanish professional boxer. She held the IBF female mini flyweight title from 2018 to 2019. At regional level, she held the European female mini flyweight title in 2017.
Career
Early career
Pastrana started boxing in 2013 in amateur competitions in her hometown Madrid. Before boxing, Pastrana practiced Muay Thai and kickboxing, but she did not like them, so she switched to boxing.Professional career
Pastrana debuted professionally on 6 February 2016 defeating Bulgarian fighter Ivana Yaneva by technical knockout at the first round in a bout held at the Restaurante Escuela Taurina in Fuente el Saz de Jarama in the Community of Madrid. At the time, Pastrana became the only professional boxer from Madrid.In October 2016, Pastrana competed for the vacant WBC silver female minimumweight title against Tina Rupprecht, but lost by unanimous decision after ten rounds. This was also the first loss in her professional career.
In May 2017, Pastrana won the EBU European female minimumweight title, after defeating French Sandy Coget by unanimous decision, in a bout held at the Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid. A few months later, in September, Pastrana made the first defense of her European title against Judit Hachbold, defeating the Hungarian fighter by knockout in the third round.
On 22 June 2018, Pastrana won the IBF world female minimumweight title, her first world title, against German Asiye Özlem Sahin. Pastrana became the second Spanish female boxer to win a world title after María Jesús Rosa Reina, who won an IBF world championship in 2004.
Pastrana made two successful defenses of her world title. One against Siriporn Thaweesuk won by technical knockout and another one against Ana Arrazola won by unanimous decision.
On 4 August 2019, Pastrana fought Yokasta Valle from Costa Rica for the mini flyweight world title, in a bout held at Marbella. Pastrana lost the fight by split decision after ten rounds.
Professional boxing record
No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
18 | Katia Gutiérrez | – | 23 Nov 2019 | Ciudad Deportiva Navafría, Moralzarzal, Spain.png" /> | For vacant WBC Silver female mini flyweight title | |||
17 | Loss | 15–2 | Yokasta Valle | 10 | 4 Aug 2019 | Plaza de Toros de Puerto Banús, Marbella, Spain.png" /> | Lost IBF female mini flyweight title | |
16 | Win | 15–1 | Ana Arrazola | UD | 10 | 9 Mar 2019 | Retained IBF female mini flyweight title | |
15 | Win | 14–1 | Siriporn Thaweesuk | TKO | 7 | 5 Oct 2018 | José Caballero, Alcobendas, Spain.png" /> | Retained IBF female mini flyweight title |
14 | Win | 13–1 | Asiye Özlem Sahin | 10 | 22 Jun 2018 | Won vacant IBF female mini flyweight title | ||
13 | Win | 12–1 | Claudia Ferenczi | UD | 6 | 17 Nov 2017 | José Antonio Paraíso, Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain.png" /> | |
12 | Win | 11–1 | Judit Hachbold | 3 | 22 Sep 2017 | Retained European female mini flyweight title | ||
11 | Win | 10–1 | Claudia Ferenczi | UD | 6 | 30 Jun 2017 | Colmenar Viejo, Spain.png" /> | |
10 | Win | 9–1 | Sandy Coget | UD | 10 | 5 May 2017 | Won vacant European female mini flyweight title | |
9 | Win | 8–1 | Judit Hachbold | UD | 6 | 11 Mar 2017 | ||
8 | Loss | 7–1 | Tina Rupprecht | UD | 10 | 7 Oct 2016 | Königsbrunn, Germany.png" /> | For vacant WBC Silver female mini flyweight title |
7 | Win | 7–0 | Katherine Quintana | UD | 6 | 25 Jun 2016 | ||
6 | Win | 6–0 | Melinda Pantis | UD | 6 | 27 May 2016 | ||
5 | Win | 5–0 | Melinda Pantis | UD | 4 | 7 May 2016 | Rayo Vallecano, Madrid, Spain.png" /> | |
4 | Win | 4–0 | Teodora Bacheva | 6 | 9 Apr 2016 | Torrelodones, Spain.png" /> | ||
3 | Win | 3–0 | Ana Mariya Simeonova | TKO | 2 | 19 Mar 2016 | ||
2 | Win | 2–0 | Maribel de Sousa | TKO | 1 | 28 Feb 2016 | ||
1 | Win | 1–0 | Ivana Yaneva | 1 | 6 Feb 2016 |