Ginny Fuchs: “MVP should sign me because I am the best flyweight and super-flyweight in the world.”

Ginny Fuchs: “MVP should sign me because I am the best flyweight and super-flyweight in the world.”

It almost seems unbelievable that a former Olympian like Ginny Fuchs can turn professional and only have four fights to her name in over three years. But Ginny Fuchs isn’t alone in that dilemma. A difficult marketplace has seen many a fighter in a similar predicament to Fuchs.

“I honestly have no clue,” Fuchs told me as to why she hasn’t been more active since she left her amateur days behind in 2022. “The only thing I can say is that maybe I need to be more active and vocal on social media. Maybe if I make more noise, people will know more about the fighter that I am.”

“Oh, for sure,” Fuchs added when I asked if she felt she was being avoided. “I was mandatory for Asley Gonzalez, the WBC Champion. We were scheduled to fight on May 30th. First, she turned down the offer from Matchroom, who I have a two-fight contract deal with, so the fight was then supposed to go to a purse bid. It didn’t even make it to the announcement of the bid because she was able to get a fight with Irma Garcia, the IBF Champion. Apparently, a unification fight is over a mandatory fight. I didn’t even know that could happen. Then the team of Mizuki Hiruta, the WBO Champion, called one of my stablemates asking him if he knew of a super-flyweight to fight her for her next fight to defend her belt again. My stablemate told them I am ready for the fight, but they said no thanks, we are not interested. So, yes, I am definitely being avoided by the champions. Feels like these champions are trying to find any way out to avoid fighting me.”

After a boom period for the female side of the sport, 2024 marked a noticeable loss of momentum for women’s boxing. Riyadh Season showed little or no interest in women’s boxing, and a large majority of female fighters had an extended state of limbo as interest waned. Fuchs believes there are other reasons for the recent struggles as well.

“Well, I think fights have been hard to come by for a lot of fighters for a long time now,” Fuchs admits. “Women’s boxing is still not completely accepted in the sport of boxing. We still are fighting two-minute rounds and ten-rounds for world title fights. The business of boxing is just different. Fights are hard to come by because the purse is too small for fighters to agree to fight. Fighters want to hold on to their titles for as long as they can and avoid certain fights from being made. Promoters make fights based on what is best for business, and sometimes that can make it hard for certain fighters to get fights. There are many reasons.”

Fuchs hasn’t fought since August of last year, her win over Adelaida Maria Ruiz, which earned the American the WBC interim super-flyweight title. After recovering from that gruesome thumb injury she suffered against Ruiz, Fuchs is chasing world titles in more than one weight class. “I am targeting every champion in the super-flyweight division,” Fuchs told me. “And definitely Gabriela Fundora as well. Flyweight is my old weight class, and I have no problem going down to become an undisputed champion in one fight.”

Fundora is the unbeaten and undisputed flyweight champion of the world. Despite her incredibly impressive resume, Fuchs is confident of beating her. “I mean, I give her props for becoming an undisputed champion and youngest to ever do it, but she can definitely be beat. With my experience and all-around better athletic and boxing skills, I’m ready for the opportunity to get that fight.”

Jasmine Artiga recently dispatched Linn Sandström in defence of her WBA world super-flyweight title, and Artiga is another fighter of interest to Fuchs. “I honestly had never heard of her until she won the WBA title. Matchroom was going to get me that fight with her for the WBA belt, but then she got signed by Jake Paul. So now I am trying to work with Jake to make the fight happen.”

If there is one shining light at the moment for women’s boxing, it is Jake Paul and his Most Valuable Promotions. Paul and MVP are assembling some stable of elite female fighters. Amanda Serrano, Ellie Scotney, Chantelle Cameron, Cherneka Johnson, and many others are now on that MVP roster. It is where Ginny Fuchs wants and probably needs to be.

“MVP should sign me because I am the best flyweight and super-flyweight female boxer in the world. I am technically a free agent right now since Matchroom wasn’t able to get me my first fight of the two-fight contract deal within the time frame. My team and I have been in contact with Jake, though. I’m just waiting for it to happen.”

Photo Credit: Matchroom Boxing