Who is Natascha Ragosina?

Question

Has anyone seen her fight?
This is her record: http://www.boxrec.com/record262676.html

Answer 1

She is a professional boxer:

www.wban.org/biog/nragosina.htm

Answer 2

Following is her autobiography minus the images, I know it might be too much but you shan't be missing anything od you?

5'11½" super middleweight Natascha (Natalja) Ragosina was born on April 5, 1976 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. She began combat sports at the age of 18, as a kickboxer. Within two years she had won the European championship, a feat she repeated two years later in 1998. Success took her to Moscow, where she switched to boxing a year later, winning the world championship as an amateur in 2001 and the European championship the following year and again in 2003 along with a number of other international titles of note, including a win over Laura Ramsey of the US in a USA-Russia Dual Meet. Despite her impressive record, when she moved to Germany with her infant son, intending to turn pro boxing, trainer Werner Kirsch didn’t want her (or any other woman for that matter) at the SES Boxgym in Magdeburg.

Until he saw her, that is.

“That girl really knows how to get stuck in!” he remarked as he watched her spar. He was hoping some of her determination might rub off on the male fighters under his charge, and he’d already noticed that she only had to walk into the gym and their work rate increased dramatically.

Natascha made her pro boxing debut on July 17, 2004 in Dessau, Germany, winning by a first-round KO over fellow debut fighter Olga Gorbonosenko of Latvia in what was described as the most impressive action on the undercard. Natascha showed great ring knowledge, landing her punches easily and correctly, to overpower Gorbonosenko.

On September 18, 2004 at Herrmann-Gieseler-Halle in Magdeburg, Germany Natascha TKO'd debut fighter Dana Tabuskova of Russia in the second round of a scheduled four-rounder (picture at left).

On October 16, 2004 at Neue Messehalle in Halle, Germany Natascha stopped Alexandra Vajdova of Slovakia by TKO at 1:23 in the third round of a scheduled four-rounder.

On December 11, 2004 at Lausitz-Arena in Cottbus, Germany, Natascha Ragosina (167 lbs) defeated Yvonne Reis (167 lbs) of Fort Lauderdale, Florida by TKO in the tenth round for the WIBF Intercontinental championship. Reis, who had been outclassed but kept trying to come forward throughout the bout, was knocked down in the ninth round, but weathered the storm ... only to have the fight stopped with 42 seconds gone in the tenth.

According to WBAN correspondent Ewan Whyte: "Reis was outgunned from the second round onwards when the Kazakh upped the pace, and after barely surviving a hail of punches in the third, the 38-year-old American had somehow made it through to the ninth with a demonstration of grit and determination of her own. “What was primarily impressive about Reis’s performance,” commented Stefan Strehler of SecondsOut, “was her ability to take punishment.” If what should have been the high point of a long career had to end in disappointment at the hands of someone that had only turned professional a few months earlier, she would at least be spared the indignity of a stoppage. But no. Although she was miles ahead on the scorecards and could have just cruised to the win, as many would do under the same circumstances, Natascha wanted the stoppage, to maintain her perfect record. And what Natascha wants, Natascha gets. If it comes to a war of wills between a 38-year-old and a 28-year-old in the tenth round, your money would in any case be on the younger woman, but Ragosina struck pre-emptively at the end of the ninth with a straight right that put the American down for the count (only the bell saved her), and when it sounded again to signal the beginning of the last round, Reis walked out dazed and diminished, and into a storm. Referee Roger Tillemann of Belgium was faced with a grim dilemma. Armed with nothing more than an awkward southpaw style that Ragosina had figured out long ago, Reis had been taking a beating now for over eight rounds, but had evinced a determination to hang on to the end, and no referee would have wanted to rob her of that consolation with only eighty seconds remaining; but Ragosina was intractable and it was she now that held all the cards. After watching Reis rocked by a ‘multitude of clean punches’, Tillemann had no option but to stop the fight forty-two seconds into the tenth."

On January 15, 2005 at the Bördelandhalle in Magdeburg, Germany Natascha (167½ lbs) won a four round unanimous (40-36) decision over Borislava Goranova (157½ lbs) of Sofia, Bulgaria. Goranova, who fell to 3-11-0 with the loss had only been stopped once in her career (in one of her four fights against Jane Couch) and had gone the distance with Agnieszka Rylik and Myriam Lamare,

On May 7, 2005 at Volkswagenhalle in Braunschweig, Germany. Natascha (168 lbs), back from surgery in early April that had prevented from her fighting American Valerie Mahfood, TKO'd Sarka Stoklaskova (165¼ lbs) of the Czech Republic in the second round of a scheduled six-round bout. Stoklaskova fell to 1-2 (0 KO's) with the loss.


Valerie Mahfood takes a right from Ragosina

On July 9, 2005 at Life Sportpark Herrenkrug in Magdeburg, Germany Natascha remained undefeated when she won a ten-round unanimous (99-91,100-90,100-90) decision over Valerie Mahfood of Texas for the WIBF super-middleweight (168 lb) continental title. Mahfood was now 19-9-1 (9KO) while Ragosina improved to 7-0-0 (4 KO). Correspondent Jon Fox wrote to WBAN, “Natascha Ragosina has just performed a virtual shutout on Valerie Mahfood. I thought that this was going to be one helluva scrap - but it wasn't. In truth, I realised shortly into the fight that it was only ever going to be a helluva scrap if Mahfood turned it into a war. But she elected not to. As a result she just looked pedestrian and ponderous. For her part, Ragosina was content to keep her opponent on the end of her cultured (but non-lethal) jab. From time to time she woke us from our slumbers with impressive combinations. But these only served to demonstrate that the Russian could have achieved a stoppage at any time she had chosen to exert herself. Unfortunately, she chose not to.”


Ragosina quickly dispatches Velichkova

On September 17, 2005 at Harzlandhalle in Ilsenburg, Germany, Natascha TKO'd Maria Velichkova of Bulgaria at 1:21 in the first round. According to WBAN correspondent Ewan Whyte: "It took all of 30 seconds last night for Natascha Ragosina to dispatch the overmatched (and not altogether undernourished) Maria Velichkova ... with no time amid the phone-in competitions and ‘co main events’ (one of which featured a pot-bellied greaser in his forties, who appeared to be drunk) to show us the full thirty seconds, D:SF cut to the chase: Velichkova, a huge blonde with teddy-bear ears (the secret love child, perhaps, of the British Home Secretary?) paws at Ragosina — you can’t call it a jab; it’s a kind of circular, up-down-and-back movement, like that of the shaft turning the wheels of a locomotive — and Ragosina answers with a perfectly executed right cross that catches her on the left cheek, spinning her round and leaving her doubled over, as though wanting to vomit. The referee, several yards from the action, looks at the state of her and charges to the rescue, shouting at Ragosina to hold off. As it is, Ragosina’s follow-up, which he’s too late to prevent, is merely a looping left intended to turn her stricken opponent round and set her up for the kill."

"Standing either side of the diminutive referee as the result is announced, they look like Valkyrie: Ragosina, with her blonde braids plastered onto her scalp like a helmet (though her hair’s so abundant it takes two pony tails to keep the rest out of her face), and Velichkova, who must be over six foot, a vanquished giantess. Even with her shoulders slumped, she looks far bigger than her opponent. In her cylindrical aluminium shorts (a dustbin with the bottom kicked out?), she’s a turkey too big for the oven. Young, too. Pretty from this angle; but with that far-away look you see in newsreels of prisoners of war running through the whole Miltonic fiasco a second time in their minds, as though even that were preferable to living in the present. There seems to be an inexhaustible supply of teenagers in eastern Europe and the Dominican Republic willing to try their luck in German rings against thoroughbreds like Ragosina and Graf. This one was weeks away from full fitness. As usual, we were told she was ‘not be underestimated’; that they were saying great things about her in her native land. To judge from her tearful, crestfallen demeanour after the fight, she, too, had believed them."

On October 29, 2005 at TURM Erlebnis City in Oranienburg, Germany, Natascha (167½ lbs) knocked out an outclassed Monica Mwakasanga (166¾ lbs) of Tanzania at 1:52 in the second round, to win the vacant WIBF World Super Middleweight title. The "fight", such as it was, topped the bill on D:SF's SES-Boxabend on the Astra satellite. Mwakasanga fell to 4-3-3 (1 KO).


Natascha vs. Dakota Stone
Photo courtesy Team Ragosina

On January 14, 2006 at Ballhouse Arena in Aschersleben, Germany,
Natascha defended her WIBF World Super Middleweight title with a clear (100-89,99-91,100-90) 10-round unanimous decision over Dakota Stone of Seattle, Washington, USA. Ragosina improved her record to 10-0 (7 KO's) while Stone dropped to 7-4-3 (1 KO).


Ragosina knocks Ewell to the canvas

On April 15, 2006 at the Maritim Hotel, in Magdeburg, Germany, Natascha (168 lbs) retained her WIBF Super Middleweight belt and gained the GBU belt with a TKO win over Carlette Ewell (173¼ lbs) of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The referee stopped the fight at 1:23 into the fifth round after Ewell remained wobbly after surviving a knockdown by a hard right from Ragosina. According to WBAN correspondent Torben Lodberg: "Ewell was a very game opponent and managed to put pressure on Ragosina when she got in close, but she had to work very hard to get in there. As the fight progressed, Ragosina took full advantage of her longer reach and her very good boxing skills. Ewell kept coming forward, but her attempts to close was paid for by a lot of good jabs from Ragosina. Halfway into to fifth round, Ewell was stunned by a hard right hand, and Ragosina set in the chase, resulting in another right that sent Carletta Ewell to the floor. She beat the count, but the renewed bombardment from from Ragosina made the referee stop the fight." Ragosina improved to 11-0 (8 KO's) while Ewell fell to slipped to 10-5-0 (7 KO's).

Ragosina is managed by Ulf Steinforth. Her next sceuled defense is against Carlette Ewell in April, 2006