Lucie Bertaud

Lucie Bertaud is a French amateur boxer and MMA fighter. She has won titles as the European Champion of Boxing (2007), the French champion of sambo (2015) and the Amateur MMA vice world champion (2015).

Career

Boxing (2000-2012)

Bertaud is a five-time French champion and European Champion of Boxing. She beat up 3 world champions : Estelle Mossely, Klara Svensson, and Eva Wahlström and was ranked number 2 in the world in 2007. After a break of one year in 2009, she decided to return to the ring to give the Olympic Games a try. Bertaud failed to qualify for the Olympics, and decided to end her career in order to dedicate herself on her new career : sport journalism.

American football (2012-2014)

After 12 years of boxing, Bertaud created the first French female American Football team with some teammates. She played 3 games, including two international games, as a linebacker.


MMA

Bertaud discovered MMA through her job : The TC channel "KOMBAT SPORT". She trained with Audrey Prieto (Wrestling World Champion), and heard about the amateur world championship in Las Vegas in 2014. As, MMA was illegal in France, she decided to prepare the world championship by training in sambo, becoming the new French female champion of sambo. Bertaud travelled to Las Vegas on July 9, 2015, where she won her semi-final against Lisa Engelke from Sweden, and then lost in the final against Lucrezia Ria of Italy.

Her current record is 1-1 as a professional fighter.

Media

In 2013, Bertaud became a presenter and commentator for the French sports channel KOMBAT SPORT. She is the first female boxing journalist in France.

She also created the TV Show Face To Face, a monthly reality show focused on Bertaud's study of martial arts. The show followed Bertaud as she travelled around the France learning different styles of martial arts, spending one day training with notable champions of the styles she is studying, before exhibiting what she has learned in a final fight.

In 2017, she launched her new TV show "Road to fight" under the channel SFR SPORT 5.

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References
  1. "Le Boxing Beats crée l'exploit" [Boxing Beats achieves a feat]. French Federation of Boxing. 22 March 2015.
  2. Alexandre Ferret. "MMA - Championnats du monde amateur : belle moisson tricolore". Le Point.
  3. "Boxing Club accueille E. Mossely et K. Rabaud". ffboxe.com.
  4. "Lucie Bertaud : " On ne sera pas moins vêtues qu'une athlète "". leparisien.fr. 15 October 2013.
  5. "Lucie Bertaud a changé de casque". leparisien.fr. 27 August 2015.
  6. "Face a Face l'Ultime Episode Special MMA". Kombat Sport.

Road to fight

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