Kina Malpartida
Encyclopedia
Kina Malpartida Dyson is a Peruvian female professional boxer
. She is the 2009 World Boxing Association
Champion in the Super Featherweight class.
, Peru
in 1980 to Susy Dyson and Oscar Malpartida. Malpartida’s mother, Susy Dyson, is English and worked as a supermodel with a record number of magazine covers in Vogue
, and she also had many covers at Marie Claire
, Vanity Fair
, and other world class magazines; she was also one of the best known worldwide models participating in many high end fashion shows. Oscar Malpartida was three times the Peruvian National Surfing Champion and he also placed 3rd in a World Championship at Sunset Beach, Hawaii. Oscar also won the Paddling World Title named after Duke Kahanamoku
in San Diego, California
. Oscar was also a very passionate skydiver which ended up costing him his life at the young age of 43.
Inclined to sports from a very young age, Kina started practicing Karate Do when she was six.
Besides Karate, she also played competitive soccer, basketball, tennis, and track and field.
Kina has surfed since she was 10. In 1996 Kina became the Peruvian Surfing Champion in the Women’s Open World Surfing Championship, defeating former surf champion Sofia Mulanovich
.
In 1995 Kina won first place in two surf tournaments in the Men's Jr. category.
In 1996 and in 2007, Kina competed in two World Tournaments organized by the International Surfing Association (ISA) in Huntington Beach, California. She ranked in the top ten in both cases. In 1999, Kina moved to Australia and obtained a Bachelor’s Business Degree in Restaurant and Catering Management from Griffith University, Queensland.
She also completed a one year course of Commercial Cookery at the TAFE Institute in New South Wales, Australia.
In August 2003, in Australia, Kina had her first professional fight against Katrina Harding, Kina won by unanimous decision.
In November 2003,in Australia, Kina had her second professional fight against Sharon Bishoff wining by K.O. at the first minute of the second round.
Kina continued fighting and winning three more professional fights in Australia.
In November 2006, due to the difficulty of finding new opponents in Australia, Kina moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her professional boxing career in the USA.
On February 21, 2009, Kina had her 12th professional fight at the Madison Square Garden in New York against Maureen Shea (13-0-0) in which Kina won the World Boxing Association (WBA) World Championship Title of the Super Featherweight at 130 pounds.
In June 2009, Kina defended successfully her title in Lima, Peru, stopping Halana Dos Santos, from Brazil (11-1-0), with a TKO at the 7th round. Once again, on the fifth of December, she successfully defended her title against the British boxer Lindsey Scragg in the Citizens Business Bank Arena of Los Ángeles winning by unanimous decision.
Date KM LB Opponent LB W-L-D Location Result/Round
2011-04-16 129 Rhonda Luna 130 --- Estadio Monumental, Lima, Peru W by UD 10
2010-06-26 128 Liliana Palmera 128 --- Jockey Plaza, Lima, Peru W by UD 10
2009-12-05 129 Lindsay Scragg 130 --- Citizen Business Bank, California, USA W by UD 10
2009-06-20 130 Halana Dos Santos 129 11-1-0 Coliseo Dibos, Lima, Peru W by TKO 7 10x2
2009-02-21 128 Maureen Shea 128 13-0-0 Madison Square Garden NY, United States W by TKO 10 10x2
2008-11-20 129 Rhonda Luna 129 12-1-1 San Manuel Casino, Highland CA, United States L by Split Decision
2007-11-29 126 Ela Nuñez 126 4-2-0 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA, United States L TKO 5 5x2
2007-09-27 127 Elizabeth Moreno 128 4-3-2 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA, United States W UD 4 4x2
2007-07-19 128 Crystal Morales 132 6-6-1 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA, United States W UD 4 4x2
2006-04-20 134 Miriam Nakamoto 138 1-0-0 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA,United States L UD 4 4x2
2006-02-23 134 Lisa Martin 134 2-3-0 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA, United States W UD 4 4x2
2005-02-11 138 Mirelle Walford 140 0-0-0 Broncos Leagues Club, Queensland, Australia W UD 4 4x2
2004-04-23 127 Holly Ferrnely 129 1-4-1 Southport RSL Queensland, Australia W UD 6 6x2
2004-04-03 128 Leona Nicholls 126 0-1-0 Shire Hall, Gatton, Queensland, Australia W UD 3 3x2
2003-11-28 133 Sharon Bischoff 135 0-0-0 Southport RSL, Queensland, Australia W TKO 2 3x2
2003-08-22 139 Katrina Harding 140 0-0-0 Southport RSL, Queensland, Australia W UD 3 3x2
Kina’s younger brother Alvaro Malpartida, is also a competitive surfer who has been the Peruvian National Surfing Champion four times and he is currently starting to compete in international surfing events.
Currently in the internet there are many fan clubs of Kina. The number of fans in Facebook alone, in South America exceeds one hundred seventy thousand and growing.
Kina has managed to develop an enormous following -with a sold-out event on her fist defense of the WBAWorld Champion title.
The leadership of Kina winning and defending successfully her WBA Championship Belt, has caused her to become a role model for women and children in South America.
In July 2009 the powerful Latin Business Association (LBA), during their Annual Sol Awards Ceremony at the Century Biltmore Hotel awarded Kina the Chairman’s Global Leadership Award due to her outstanding role as a leader at a global level and as a role model for women and children.
Kina is in the process of organizing the Kina Dynamite Foundation for poor and disadvantaged children. After her first defense of her title, Kina spent considerable amount of time participating in charitable events for poor and disadvantaged children in the north part of Peru.
Kina’s heart has always been concerned about the welfare of children and women and now thanks to her recognition as a World Boxing Champion and as a leader she has the opportunity to make her Foundation a reality with the purpose of helping children in need.
With her popularity in South America, Kina has been appearing in a series of commercial advertisings in pictures and videos helped by her good looks.
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
. She is the 2009 World Boxing Association
World Boxing Association
The World Boxing Association is a boxing organization that sanctions official matches, and awards the WBA world championship title at the professional level. It was previously known as the National Boxing Association before changing its name in 1962...
Champion in the Super Featherweight class.
Personal life
Malpartida was born in LimaLima
Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
, Peru
Peru
Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
in 1980 to Susy Dyson and Oscar Malpartida. Malpartida’s mother, Susy Dyson, is English and worked as a supermodel with a record number of magazine covers in Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, and she also had many covers at Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Marie Claire is a monthly women's magazine first published in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women around the world and...
, Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
, and other world class magazines; she was also one of the best known worldwide models participating in many high end fashion shows. Oscar Malpartida was three times the Peruvian National Surfing Champion and he also placed 3rd in a World Championship at Sunset Beach, Hawaii. Oscar also won the Paddling World Title named after Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku was a Hawaiian swimmer, actor, lawman, early beach volleyball player and businessman credited with spreading the sport of surfing. He was a five-time Olympic medalist in swimming.-Early years:The name "Duke" is not a title, but a given name...
in San Diego, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Oscar was also a very passionate skydiver which ended up costing him his life at the young age of 43.
Inclined to sports from a very young age, Kina started practicing Karate Do when she was six.
Besides Karate, she also played competitive soccer, basketball, tennis, and track and field.
Kina has surfed since she was 10. In 1996 Kina became the Peruvian Surfing Champion in the Women’s Open World Surfing Championship, defeating former surf champion Sofia Mulanovich
Sofia Mulanovich
Sofía Mulánovich Aljovín is a Peruvian surfer. She is the first Peruvian surfer ever to win an Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour event. She is the first South American ever to win the World Title. In 2004, she won three out of the six World Championship Tour events, and...
.
In 1995 Kina won first place in two surf tournaments in the Men's Jr. category.
In 1996 and in 2007, Kina competed in two World Tournaments organized by the International Surfing Association (ISA) in Huntington Beach, California. She ranked in the top ten in both cases. In 1999, Kina moved to Australia and obtained a Bachelor’s Business Degree in Restaurant and Catering Management from Griffith University, Queensland.
She also completed a one year course of Commercial Cookery at the TAFE Institute in New South Wales, Australia.
Support staff
Currently, Kina is being trained by Mario Morales in the Azteca Boxing Club, in Bell Gardens, California.Boxing career
In May 2003, Kina started training as a boxer under the guidance of the Coach Tony Simms, in the city of Currumbin in the Gold Coast, Australia, with the intention of becoming a World Champion professional boxer.In August 2003, in Australia, Kina had her first professional fight against Katrina Harding, Kina won by unanimous decision.
In November 2003,in Australia, Kina had her second professional fight against Sharon Bishoff wining by K.O. at the first minute of the second round.
Kina continued fighting and winning three more professional fights in Australia.
In November 2006, due to the difficulty of finding new opponents in Australia, Kina moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her professional boxing career in the USA.
On February 21, 2009, Kina had her 12th professional fight at the Madison Square Garden in New York against Maureen Shea (13-0-0) in which Kina won the World Boxing Association (WBA) World Championship Title of the Super Featherweight at 130 pounds.
In June 2009, Kina defended successfully her title in Lima, Peru, stopping Halana Dos Santos, from Brazil (11-1-0), with a TKO at the 7th round. Once again, on the fifth of December, she successfully defended her title against the British boxer Lindsey Scragg in the Citizens Business Bank Arena of Los Ángeles winning by unanimous decision.
Date KM LB Opponent LB W-L-D Location Result/Round
2011-04-16 129 Rhonda Luna 130 --- Estadio Monumental, Lima, Peru W by UD 10
2010-06-26 128 Liliana Palmera 128 --- Jockey Plaza, Lima, Peru W by UD 10
2009-12-05 129 Lindsay Scragg 130 --- Citizen Business Bank, California, USA W by UD 10
2009-06-20 130 Halana Dos Santos 129 11-1-0 Coliseo Dibos, Lima, Peru W by TKO 7 10x2
2009-02-21 128 Maureen Shea 128 13-0-0 Madison Square Garden NY, United States W by TKO 10 10x2
2008-11-20 129 Rhonda Luna 129 12-1-1 San Manuel Casino, Highland CA, United States L by Split Decision
2007-11-29 126 Ela Nuñez 126 4-2-0 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA, United States L TKO 5 5x2
2007-09-27 127 Elizabeth Moreno 128 4-3-2 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA, United States W UD 4 4x2
2007-07-19 128 Crystal Morales 132 6-6-1 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA, United States W UD 4 4x2
2006-04-20 134 Miriam Nakamoto 138 1-0-0 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA,United States L UD 4 4x2
2006-02-23 134 Lisa Martin 134 2-3-0 Marriott Hotel, Irvine CA, United States W UD 4 4x2
2005-02-11 138 Mirelle Walford 140 0-0-0 Broncos Leagues Club, Queensland, Australia W UD 4 4x2
2004-04-23 127 Holly Ferrnely 129 1-4-1 Southport RSL Queensland, Australia W UD 6 6x2
2004-04-03 128 Leona Nicholls 126 0-1-0 Shire Hall, Gatton, Queensland, Australia W UD 3 3x2
2003-11-28 133 Sharon Bischoff 135 0-0-0 Southport RSL, Queensland, Australia W TKO 2 3x2
2003-08-22 139 Katrina Harding 140 0-0-0 Southport RSL, Queensland, Australia W UD 3 3x2
Family Life and Community Activities
Kina has championship written in her blood coming from her family.Kina’s younger brother Alvaro Malpartida, is also a competitive surfer who has been the Peruvian National Surfing Champion four times and he is currently starting to compete in international surfing events.
Currently in the internet there are many fan clubs of Kina. The number of fans in Facebook alone, in South America exceeds one hundred seventy thousand and growing.
Kina has managed to develop an enormous following -with a sold-out event on her fist defense of the WBAWorld Champion title.
The leadership of Kina winning and defending successfully her WBA Championship Belt, has caused her to become a role model for women and children in South America.
In July 2009 the powerful Latin Business Association (LBA), during their Annual Sol Awards Ceremony at the Century Biltmore Hotel awarded Kina the Chairman’s Global Leadership Award due to her outstanding role as a leader at a global level and as a role model for women and children.
Kina is in the process of organizing the Kina Dynamite Foundation for poor and disadvantaged children. After her first defense of her title, Kina spent considerable amount of time participating in charitable events for poor and disadvantaged children in the north part of Peru.
Kina’s heart has always been concerned about the welfare of children and women and now thanks to her recognition as a World Boxing Champion and as a leader she has the opportunity to make her Foundation a reality with the purpose of helping children in need.
With her popularity in South America, Kina has been appearing in a series of commercial advertisings in pictures and videos helped by her good looks.