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Graciela Casillas is an American boxer and kickboxer who was born in 1957 in Oxnard, California, United States. She is 63 years old as of 2020. Casillas began her boxing career in the late 1970s and quickly rose to prominence in the sport. She has won numerous titles, including the WIBF World Super Bantamweight Championship, the WIBF World Featherweight Championship, and the WIBF World Super Featherweight Championship. Casillas has also competed in kickboxing, winning the WKA World Super Bantamweight Championship in 1995. She has also competed in mixed martial arts, winning the WKA World Super Bantamweight Championship in 1997. Casillas is considered one of the most successful female boxers of all time. She has been inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame and the California Boxing Hall of Fame. As of 2020, Graciela Casillas's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her successful career as a boxer and kickboxer.

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Graciela Casillas Height, Weight & Measurements

At 66 years old, Graciela Casillas height is 1.63m and Weight 53 kg.

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Height 1.63m
Weight 53 kg
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She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.

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Graciela Casillas Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Graciela Casillas worth at the age of 66 years old? Graciela Casillas’s income source is mostly from being a successful Boxer. She is from United States. We have estimated Graciela Casillas's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1996

In 1996 Casillas designed a knife known as the Ladyhawk, manufactured by Masters of Defense (MOD) as a collaboration with Microtech Knives and marketed as a self-defense knife designed for women. Impetus for this design came after Casillas stabbed one of two attempted rapists, using the thug's own knife after disarming him.

1993

Casillas has appeared in the films Full Impact (1993) and Fire in the Night (1986).

1989

Originally a student of taekwondo and full-contact karate she earned a 3rd degree black belt in Kenpo as well as Kodenkan Jujitsu. Casillas trained under Grandmaster Angel Cabales and became the first woman instructor for Cabales Serrada Eskrima. She later studied Jeet Kune Do under Sifu Dan Inosanto and Arnis under Grandmaster Bobby Taboada and her husband Sensei Ernie Boggs. She has been President of the United States Sport Jujitsu Trade Association and an assistant coach to the USA Jujitsu Team. She was awarded Black Belt Magazine's and Inside Kung-Fu Magazine's "Woman of the Year" in 1989 and inducted into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame. She has been credited as the designer of the Boxing Skirt.

1986

Noted for her punching power and also as one of the first American fighters to incorporate low kicks into their arsenal, Casillas retired undefeated in 1986. She is considered a pioneer of women's combat sports.

She retired undefeated in 1986 with a record of 31-0, 18 KOs.

1981

In a controversial bout in Chicago, Illinois on October 6, 1981, Casillas went the distance with Cheryl Wheeler. Initially, it was announced that Wheeler won on the judges' scorecards to take the WKA bantamweight title but it was later overturned to a win for Casillas.

1979

After going 6-0 with all of her wins by knockout as an amateur, Casillas turned professional in 1977. On June 13, 1979, after winning her first eight professional full contact karate fights, she defeated Karen Bennett by unanimous decision at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California to win the WWBA World Bantamweight (-53.525 kg/118 lb) Championship in what was her professional boxing debut.

1957

Graciela Casillas (born 1957) is an American former boxer and kickboxer who competed in the bantamweight division. After training in several traditional martial arts, Casillas began competing as a kickboxer in 1976, and in 1979 she became the first fighter to hold world titles in both boxing and kickboxing by taking the World Women's Boxing Association's and the World Kickboxing Association's bantamweight championships. Although Casillas' Boxrec record is 5-0, Black Belt Magazine reported in May 1984 that she had 27 boxing matches, winning 15 by KO up to that point.