Oshae Jones Turns Olympic Pedigree Into IBF Championship Gold
Oshae Jones won the IBF junior middleweight championship against Femke Hermans on November 22, 2024. Their ten-round contest at Corey Studios in Atlanta ended in a split decision, giving the unbeaten boxer from Toledo a professional world-title breakthrough.
A divided verdict in Atlanta
Two judges favored Jones, returning 96–94 and 97–93. The third scored the fight 97–93 for Hermans. The divided verdict reflected a competitive contest rather than a one-sided announcement, with Jones taking the championship from the Belgian titleholder.
Jones began aggressively and landed a strong right hook from the southpaw stance in the second round. An accidental head clash in the third complicated her night, but she continued working through the scheduled distance against Hermans’s busy, awkward approach.
The professional breakthrough follows Olympic bronze
The result extended Jones’s unbeaten professional record to eight victories. It also connected her amateur achievements with success in the paid ranks: she had previously won Olympic bronze while representing the United States at the Tokyo Games.
The IBF lists November 22, 2024 as the date she won its 154-pound championship. That divisional detail places the achievement at junior middleweight, also called super welterweight. Jones’s Atlanta victory was therefore a specific championship result earned over ten rounds against an established opponent, bringing a world belt home to Toledo after the international experience of her Olympic career.
Sources
- ibf-usba-boxing.com: champions
- boxingscene.com: oshae jones snatches title from femke hermans split decision
- tapology.com: 932273 otx 11 femke hermans vs oshae jones
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Oshae Jones, Femke Hermans, Boxing
