Man I wish we would have got to see it, they were the 2 best females in the late 90's- early 2000's. Peak for peak I think Rijker would have beaten Christy.
Martin usually competed in higher weight divisions than Rijker. If Christy Martin has to enter the ring and fight Lucia Rijker at Super Lightweight, with a real same day weigh in, then Rijker wins by decision.
Rjiker is the best female boxer of all time.. A proper technical fighter with serious power. Rjiker every time.
Christy Martin made women’s boxing. She fought legit fights often as the chief supporting bout on undercards of Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, JC Chavez and more. She was supposed to fight Lucia but Rijker was injured in training and pulled out. The fight never happened. Rijker had the reputation as the next big thing in women’s boxing and was reputed to be better, although smaller, but we never got to find out. For those who don’t know, Christy’s husband tried to kill her in 2010. She was stabbed several times and shot in the torso. He left her for dead, but she survived. He’s in prison now and should rot there. I don’t know if Rijker was better, but I know there’s no way in hell that she was any tougher. Women’s boxing owes a lot to Christy Martin.