Anissa Meksen

Anissa Meksen is a French-Algerian kickboxer, Muay Thai fighter, savate fighter and boxer, born in Nancy, France, in 1988 to Algerian parents, a father from Annaba and a mother from Constantine. She won the Glory Women's Super Bantamweight Championship twice, held world titles across three combat sports, and compiled 104 wins, 33 of them by knockout; she is regarded as one of the greatest female kickboxers of her generation. ^{1 2}

Her brother Mehdi introduced her to boxing at the age of twelve, after a childhood in judo, karate and jiu-jitsu, and she took to it at once. She won the Night of Champions tournament in 2008, the S1 world title in 2013, and a run of European and world Muay Thai titles in 2014 and 2015. ^{2 1}

In 2016 Meksen won the WBC World Muay Thai title and the WAKO PRO flyweight world title. In 2017 she added the ISKA bantamweight world title, the AFSO K-1 title and the Glory Women's Super Bantamweight Championship, which she held in two reigns with three successful defences, and in the same year won the French professional super-bantamweight boxing title, going 2–0 as a boxer. She was named Fighter of the Year by several bodies in 2014 and 2017. ¹

Meksen joined ONE Championship in 2020 and challenged for the interim ONE Women's Atomweight Kickboxing World Championship in 2023 and for the inaugural ONE Women's Strawweight Kickboxing World Championship in 2024, losing both challenges. ¹

• The articles registered in this record's sources: English and French Wikipedia, and Wikidata Q19952877.