Greatest female kickboxer of all time fights a man
Rijker went 37-0-1 as a kickboxer, and ran out of female fights, and took a fight with a solid male pro.
Lucia Rijker is probably most famous for her role as Billie ‘The Blue Bear’ Osterman in the Oscar-winning, female boxer-based Million Dollar Baby (2004). However, the hardcore combat sports fan base knows her at the best female kickboxer of all time.
Rijker went 37-0-1 as a kickboxer, and 17-0 as a boxer. Much like Cris Cyborg with Ronda Rousey, Rijker long sought a fight with the mediagenic star Christy Martin, unsuccessfully. However, during her kickboxing career, she ran out of female fights, and took a fight with a solid male pro.
Somchai Jaidee was reportedly 13-1 (9) at the time of the fight, which was in October of 1994. The fight does not go Rijker’s way, and she falls in the 2nd. People can make of the fight what they want, but in the end a fighter sought a challenge, and on that day, it didn’t go that fighter’s way.
That should be enough.
