Sonya Emery

Who is Sonya Emery?

Sonya Anne Emery, better known plainly as Sonya Emery, is a former female boxer who boxed professionally from 1997 to 1998.

Emery had a significant amateur women's boxing career, winning various state and national championships, sparking interest when she announced she was to become a professional.

She debuted as a professional boxer on August 19 of '97, with a second- round knockout win over Colleen Smith at her hometown of Austin.

Her second bout was on January 6 of '98, when she met Cinthya Prouder. Emery suffered her first career defeat when outpointed by Prouder over four rounds.

On February 11, she met the very experienced Gloria Ramirez at Fort Worth, Texas, losing by a four-round split decision.

In March of that year, Emery traveled halfway across the Pacific, to meet Colleen Smith in a rematch, at Honolulu, Hawaii. She defeated Smith for a second time, this time by knockout in round three.

Next for Emery was Angelica Villain, on May 1, back in Emery's home state. With a knockout 24 seconds into the first round, Emery scored one of the quickest wins in male or female boxing history.

Only seven days later, she made her Las Vegas debut, when she knocked out the highly touted Valerie Troike in three rounds. That was Troike's first career defeat, after six fights without a loss.