Alycia “The Bomb” Baumgardner is an elite professional boxer and the dominant unified world champion in the female super-featherweight division. Born on May 24, 1994, in Fremont, Ohio, Baumgardner captured international stardom by mixing absolute physical power with a highly marketable runway model persona. Since signing with Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) she has cemented herself as one of the prominent faces of women’s boxing.
Baumgardner began her boxing path at just eight years old, building an extensive and highly active foundation. Over the course of her amateur run, she compiled roughly 150 amateur fights. Her most notable amateur highlights include:
- 2014 US National Golden Gloves: Silver Medalist (Welterweight division).
- 2015 USA Boxing National Championships: Light-Welterweight Quarterfinalist.
Baumgardner has been embroiled in a highly personal, escalating rivalry with self-proclaimed saying she is the greatest of all time (figment of her imagination) Claressa Shields. What began as a fierce social media war of words over pound-for-pound status turned physical:
- The Incident: At the MVP MMA 1 event at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, the two crossed paths in a private VIP section.
- The Altercation: Tensions boiled over, resulting in Shields physically confronting and slapping Baumgardner’s hand away.
- The Fallout: Following the unprovoked altercation, Most Valuable Promotions officially banned Shiels from all future MVP events. Baumgardner condemned the behavior and threatened legal action, while the feud continues to burn hot as they talk about a potential catchweight showdown down the line. (dream on…wrong weight class for both of these fighters to fight each other.)
Baumgardner holds a spectacular professional record of 18 wins and 1 loss, with 7 wins coming via knockout.
