- Investment banker wins undisputed welterweight title in upset
- Majority decision hands Brækhus first defeat of 13-year career
- Brækhus, 38, hints at retirement: ‘I miss my friends, my family’
Jessica McCaskill, a 33-year-old investment banker from Chicago who overcame homelessness as a child and moonlights as a professional boxer, sprang a seismic upset on Saturday night in dethroning Cecilia Brækhus, the undisputed welterweight champion widely regarded as the sport’s pound-for-pound world No 1.
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