Anissa Haddaoui (born 30 May 1991) is a Dutch-Moroccanboxer, kickboxer, muay thai fighter and BJJ practitioner, who has been professionally competing since 2008.
She is a former EBF two weight European champion, IRO European and World kickboxing champion, World Fighting League Muay Thai Champion and Muay Thai tournament winner, as well as the Kunlun Fight World Mulan Championship winner.[4] She has also won the IBJJF European BJJ Championships bronze medal as a white belt.[5]
Combat Press ranked her as one of the top ten female fighters since August 2017.[6][7][8][9] Combat Press ranks her as the #10 female pound for pound fighter in the world, as of November 2020.[10]
Kickboxing and muay thai career
Anissa Haddaoui made her professional kickboxing debut in 2008. Her first fight was against Helen Garnett, who gave Haddaoui her first professional loss, by unanimous decision.
In 2013 Haddaoui faced Rachel Adamus during Rumble of the North III for the IRO European Title which she won by unanimous decision.[11]
In 2016 Haddaoui entered the World Fighting League 65 kg Tournament. In the semi-finals she defeated the future Enfusion world champion Sheena Widdershoven by unanimous decision.[12] In the finals she fought Ilona Wijmans which she won by unanimous decision.[13]
Haddaoui fought Rachel Adamus during The Warriors 4 for the IRO World Title, winning by unanimous decision.
She next entered the Kunlun Fight Mulan Legend Tournament. She defeated Marisa Pires in the quarter-finals, but lost to Laëtitia Madjene in the semi-finals. Madjene would later withdraw from the tournament[14] and Haddaoui fought Wang Kehan in the final.[15] which she won by unanimous decision.[16]
In March 2018 Haddaoui defended her WFL title against Michaela Michel in which she would lose the title through unanimous decision.[17]
Haddaoui entered the 2018 edition of the Mulan Legend as well. Despite defeating Shi Lijiang in the quarter-finals,[18] she would drop a split decision to Zhu Mengjia in the semi-finals.[19]
Mixed martial arts career
Haddaoui has two MMA fights to date. The first was in 2014 against Lena Buytendijk during Battle Under The Tower, which she lost by unanimous decision. The second came in 2017 against Antonina Shevchenko, during Phoenix FC 3, when she once again lost by unanimous decision.[20]
