About Nicola Adams
Nicola Adams famous as "Queen Of The Ring" is a British former professional boxer. She began boxing at the age of 13, becoming Britain's amateur champion by 2003, and kept the title in three championships. She is the reigning Olympic, World, and European Games champion at flyweight as of 2016. She is also the first woman to win an Olympic boxing title which she achieved in 2012. She is an openly LGBT person and is also the first openly LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing Gold medal. She is bisexual and was named the most influential person for LGBT in Britain by the Independent in 2012. Also, she has appeared in numerous movies and TV series like Commonwealth Games, Waterloo Road, etc. She retired with an undefeated record and held the WBO female flyweight title in 2019. She was a contestant on the popular series Strictly Come Dancing in 2020. She is nicknamed The Lioness, Babyface. She is also active in social media with more than 48K followers and more than 99K followers on her Twitter account.
Nicola Adams and her partner, Katya were the first to dance as they kicked off Strictly Come Dancing's Movie Week. The boxer, who made history by being paired in the show's first same-sex couple, started the show as they danced the jive to Grease Lightning. Nicola and partner Katya Jones did not fail to impress as fans were quick to praise her moves with some stating that she smashed the dance. One person tweeted: "Nicola totally smashed her jive. Well done." Another added: "Katya & Nicola were fantastic tonight! Fabulous dance routine! Well done ladies." Her routine was praised by judges Motsi Mabuse, Shirley Ballas and Craig Revel Horwood.
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Nicola Adams is famous for being a former professional boxer and for representing Haringey Police Community Club at boxing. She is also best known for being named the most influential LGBT person in Britain by The Independent in 2012 and has been included in the annual Powerlist, recognition as one of the most influential people of African/African-Caribbean descent in the UK. She is also better known for defeating Mary Kom from India in the Flyweight semi-final in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Nicola Adams was born as Nicola Virginia Adams on 26th October 1982 in Leeds, Yorkshire, the UK. She was born to her parents; Innocent Adams (father) and Denver Adams (mother). By occupation, her father is a plasterer and her mother is a hairdresser as well as a restaurant manager. When Nicola was at the age of 11, her parents separated. Her mother, Denver, suffered from contracted meningitis however, Nicola quickly called an ambulance and saved her mother's life. Regarding her siblings, she also has a younger brother named Kurtis Adams. She belongs to Mixed ethnicity and she is of British-French/Caribbean, Nevis/St Kitts & St Maarten heritage. She holds British nationality. Her face is black. As of 2019, she celebrated her 38th birthday. Scorpio is her zodiac sign and her religion is Christian.
Concerning her education, she was educated at Agnes Stewart Church of England High School, Ebor Gardens, Leeds. She also went to Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale.
Nicola Adams is a very beautiful lady with a charming and glowing face. She stands tall at the height of 5 ft 4.5 in or 164 cm or 1.64 m. Her balanced weight consists of 51 KG. Her body build is athletic. Her other body measurements such as shoe size, breast size, waist size, and more are still to get unfold yet. She is very conscious regarding her food intake and she frequently does exercises to keep herself fit and fine.
Nicola Adams's Amateur and Professional Career
- Nicola Adams's amateur career began with the fought in which she won at the age of thirteen. Her first fought was occurred back four years.
- She became the first woman boxer ever to represent England, in a fight against an Irish boxer in the year 2001. After two years, she became an English amateur champion for the first time, and she retained the title at the next three championships.
- Furthermore, she was the first English female to win a medal in a major tournament, taking Silver in the bantamweight (54kg) division at the European Championships in Denmark in the year 2007. In the year 2008, she won Silver again at the world championships in Ningbo, China.
- Due to back injury, she was absent from the boxing career but she returned to success at the 2010 world championships in Bridgetown, Barbados, taking Silver again, competing now at flyweight (51kg).
- For the funds for boxing career, she worked as an acting extra on soap operas such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale, and EastEnders. She also worked as a builder before the International Olympic Committee backed funding for women's boxing in the year 2009.
- She was victorious in the first-ever GB Amateur Boxing Championship at the Echo Arena Liverpool in 2010 and she successfully won Gold at the European Union Amateur Boxing Championships in Katowice in the year 2011.
- She then defeated Mary Kom from India in the Flyweight semi-final in the 2012 Summer Olympics. She also defeated Chinese boxer and world number one Ren Cancan in the final to claim the first Olympic women's boxing Gold medal.
- She also knocked out Michaela Walsh of Northern Ireland to take the gold medal in the women's flyweight division on a split decision at the 2014 commonwealth Games. She then successfully defended her Olympic title, defeating Sarah Ourahmoune of France in the Final on 20th August at the 2016 Rio Olympic games.
- Nicola Admas herself confirmed that she had turned professional having signed with promoter Frank Warren on 23rd January 2017. On 8th April, she made her debut against Virginia Carcamo at the Manchester Arena scoring a four-round points decision victory.
- She faced former world champion, Isabel Millan, for the WBO interim female flyweight title on 6th October 2018 at the Morningside Arena in Leicester where she defeated via ten-round unanimous decision to capture the WBO interim title.
- After the victory, she was scheduled to challenge for the full world title on 8th March 2019 against reigning WBO female flyweight champion Arely Mucino at the Royal Albert Hall in London. But the fight was postponed due to the injury of Adams. She had been elevated from interim to full WBO champion in July 2019 due to Mucino being unable to "participate in the active competition" due to an ankle injury in a car crash.
- Her first defense title came facing against former world title challenger Maria Salinas. The bout took place on 27 September 2019 at the Royal Albert Hall and was aired live on BT Sport in the UK and ESPN+ in the US.
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Retirement of Nicola Adams
During the first round of her fight with Salinas, she suffered a torn pupil. Firstly, she thought it was a minor injury. In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live Adams said, "I didn't think it would be anything too serious but I had torn the pupil in my eye. I got the injury in the first round of my last fight [against Maria Salinas]. I phoned the doctors a couple of days afterward. I could take the chance and keep boxing and hope nothing would happen to my eye or an unlucky punch could mean I lose my sight."
On 6th November 2019, she announced her retirement in an open letter in the Yorkshire Evening Post, saying, "I’m immensely honored to have represented our country-to win double Olympic gold medals and then the WBO championship belt is a dream come true… But it's not without taking its toll on my body, and aside from the expected aches and pains - I've been advised that any further impact to my eye would most likely lead to irreparable damage and permanent vision loss."
Awards, Achievements, and Honors of Nicola Adams
Nicola Adams placed first twice in the Olympic Games, placed first once in World Championship, and placed second thrice for the same. She placed first once in European Championship and second once in the same. She placed first twice in European Union Championships and placed first once in Commonwealth Games. She became the first female boxer to receive an award from the Boxing Writers' Club of Great Britain in the year 2012. She was also awarded the Joe Bromley Award for outstanding services to boxing, She became the first woman ever to be invited to the club's awards ceremony. Additionally, she was a nominee for BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the year 2012. She topped the list of The Independent's 101 most influential LGBT people in Britain for 2012 in November. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to boxing and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours, also for services to boxing. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Leeds in July 2015. In November 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. She was named Number One in the DIVA Power List of the UK's most eminent lesbian and bisexual women in the year 2016. It was announced on 2nd September 2020 that she would be a contestant on the eighteenth series of "Strictly Come Dancing" and that she would feature in the competition's first same-sex couple alongside professional Katya Jones.
Nicola Adams's Partner, Ella Baig
Nicola Adams is not married yet and she is still to get married. She is openly lesbian as per her sexual orientation. She is not single at present but she is currently in a relationship. She is dating her girlfriend, Ella Baig since 27th May 2018. By profession, her girlfriend, Ella is a beauty blogger. The duo also holidays in Thailand and Australia. The couple is sharing a strong love bond. They are enjoying their life a lot without any disturbances.
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Previously, she was in a relationship with American boxer, Marlen Esparza. They were even engaged for 16 months but in the year 2018, the pair separated. The couple met each other in 2009 but started developing feelings for each other in 2015. The couple perhaps bonded at a restaurant, where Adams suffered from an allergic reaction to the nutty sauce on her nachos and thus had to take her to the emergency ward. The couple bonded there over an EpiPen. It was Nicola Adams who proposed to Marlen in the Shangri-La restaurant. Reportedly, the couple split as Marlen started going out a lot which became too much for Nicole and she was left with no choice rather than separate with the fellow boxer.
Nicola Adams's Net Worth 2020
Britain's most decorated female boxer is named Nicola Adams. As of 2020, the net worth of Nicola Adams is estimated to have $2 million. As a top British boxer, she is earning $51,370 per annum. She has made good earnings from her career in boxing which is her major source of income. Her financial income also includes her sponsors from companies such as Nike, Puma, and Addidas. She is living a cool lifestyle from her career earnings.
