Timar fights for the world championship title

Basel professional boxer Gabi Timar will get her first world title shot on Boxing Day in Bern. The 39-year-old will fight for the WBO world championship in the atomweight division — and could become the first Swiss boxing world champion ever.

1 December 2025

On December 26, 2025, Basel professional boxer Gabi “Balboa” Timar will face the biggest fight of her career: at the traditional Boxing Day event in the Kursaal Arena in Bern, the 39-year-old will compete for the World Boxing Organization (WBO) world title, one of the four major sanctioning bodies in professional boxing.

For Timar, this world title fight represents the logical next step in a late-starting but highly consistent career. After winning the EBU European Championship and the WBO International title, she is now moving down to atomweight, where the title became vacant following the retirement of former German world champion Tina Rupprecht.

In the world title bout, Timar (25-2-0) will face undefeated Japanese fighter Marina Loreto (8-0-2), the reigning Japanese champion and WBO Asia Pacific titleholder.

Together with her trainer and manager Angelo Gallina, Timar is already making Swiss boxing history before the first bell. Only two Swiss female boxers have previously had the chance to fight for a world title from the “big four” sanctioning bodies on home soil: Nicole Boss in 2015 (WBC) and Aniya Seki in 2018 (WBA), both also in Bern. Both narrowly missed the title. A victory on December 26, 2025, would make Gabi Timar the first Swiss female boxing world champion.