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About Sonya Emery
- Sonya Anne Emery (born July 7, 1972 in Austin, Texas, U.S.), better known plainly as Sonya Emery, is a former female boxer who boxed professionally from 1997 to 1998. Emery had a significant amateur women's boxing career, winning various state and national championships, sparking interest when she announced she was to become a professional. She debuted as a professional boxer on August 19 of '97, with a second- round knockout win over Colleen Smith at her hometown of Austin. Her second bout was on January 6 of '98, when she met Cinthya Prouder.
- Emery suffered her first career defeat when outpointed by Prouder over four rounds. On February 11, she met the very experienced Gloria Ramirez at Fort Worth, Texas, losing by a four-round split decision. In March of that year, Emery traveled halfway across the Pacific, to meet Colleen Smith in a rematch, at Honolulu, Hawaii.
- She defeated Smith for a second time, this time by knockout in round three.
- Next for Emery was Angelica Villain, on May 1, back in Emery's home state.
- With a knockout 24 seconds into the first round, Emery scored one of the quickest wins in male or female boxing history.
- Only seven days later, she made her Las Vegas debut, when she knocked out the highly touted Valerie Troike in three rounds.
- That was Troike's first career defeat, after six fights without a loss.
- After the win against Troike, however, Emery's career started to go down, as she lost two of her final three bouts as a professional.
- On July 31, she met future world champion "Downtown Leona Brown" in Atlantic City, New Jersey, losing by a six-round split decision. On August 15, she beat the well-known Jayla Ortiz by a six-round unanimous decision, in what would turn out to be her career's final win.
- That fight was also held in Las Vegas. Emery went to Worley, Idaho, a city where women's boxing is a main attraction, to meet Theresa Arnold on November 23, and she lost a close, eight-round split decision (scores of 75-78, 75-77 and 77-76).
- Curiously, this would be the last fight both for Emery and for Arnold, as the two rivals announced their retirement soon after the fight. Sonya Emery compiled a lifetime record of five wins and four losses, with four wins by knockout.
- She was never KOed herself.
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