(DEC 6) Yesterday morning, I was notified that there was a news story online on the Dailymail website that reported female professional boxer and former world champion Viviane Obenauf, 34 years old, of Switzerland had been taken into custody for the charge of murdering her 61-year-old husband. Viviane and her husband had “tied the knot” in January 2020 this year. According to the online media, her newly-married husband had died of massive injuries from a sustained violent assault.
At this time this is “allegedly” as she has not been convicted and is currently in police custody in Switzerland. Obenauf had retired from boxing after losing to Katie Taylor in November 2019.
One of Obenauf’s most noted wins came from when she stopped Olympian professional boxer Natasha Jones by TKO on August 4, 2018, winning the WBA Super Featherweight title.
In the following video I posted—she talks about her life and how she got into boxing. On the narrative (summary only) of the video interview they wrote the following:
“Viviane Obenauf – Brazilian immigrant lives her dream of boxing and she wants to write Swiss boxing history with her quick fists. She confidently says this a few days before a prestigious match in Paris. Obenauf lives in the Bernese Oberland on Lake Brienz and is a professional boxer with a Swiss license. Obenauf was born and raised in Brazil. On a trip through Europe, she met her ex-husband in Switzerland and from then on stayed in her adopted home, the Bernese Oberland. After giving birth to her son seven years ago, she started boxing – to shed the 30 kilos she gained during pregnancy. After only one year she became Swiss champion and four years ago she switched from amateur to professional boxing. She fights around four fights a year, which now also earn her some money.”
Apparently, Obenauf had had a history of assaults previously, when on one occasion she had assaulted an ex-boyfriend by hitting him in the face with her fists.
The ex-boyfriend reported to Blick the following incident. He said that she always had “two faces” and in regards to her temperament—it was like, “flicking a switch.”
In another incident in October of 2016, Viviane had been apprehended in a London nightclub after punching a man in retaliation to allegedly being groped during her 30th Birthday celebration.
WBAN will keep up the latest updates on Viviane Obenauf, as information becomes available.
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