Daisy Lang

Daisy Lang (born 4 April 1972 as Desislava Kirova) is a former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2004.

Lang began boxing professionally in February 1996 in Germany.

She lived in Düsseldorf and trained in Hamburg, where Universum Box-Promotion was based, she won her first three fights of her career in 1996, two of them by knockout.

On 29 November 1997 Daisy lost against Michele Aboro in the six rounds fight.

In February 1998, Daisy Lang won the vacant WIBF European Bantamweight title in ten rounds against Krisztina Horvai.

She is a three division world champion and was the first Bulgarian woman to capture a world title, having held the WIBF super-flyweight, bantamweight, and super-bantamweight titles between 1999 and 2004.

After winning another fight by knockout in round 2, she defended her European championship belt against Anastasia Toktaulova on 27 March 1999.

On 17 July of the same year, Lang became world champion with a victory against Gizella Papp in the battle for the vacant WIBF Super Flyweight title.

From 1999 to 2002 Daisy Lang successfully defended her title against Sonia Pereira, Kathy Williams, Oana Jurma, Brenda Burnside, Nadia Debras, Michelle Sutcliffe and Réka Krempf.

On 14 September 2002 she won against Lisa Foster in a fight for the GBU world Bantamweight championship in ten rounds.

On 18 January 2003 Lang drew against Silke Weickenmeier in fight for the GBU Super banthamweight title, but won the rematch on 10 May with a majority decision in ten rounds.

On 15 November 2003 she lost against Galina Ivanova in ten rounds, in a fight for the WIBF Super Flyweight title.

In 2004, she won an 8-round match against Marian Pampuk of Hungary, but in her next match on 29 May 2004 she lost against Regina Halmich in a fight for the vacant IWBF Super Flyweight title, in ten rounds by unanimous decision.

In October 2004 she won another fight by knockout Simone Suchiu in the third round.