Some of the most epic moments in Swedish combat sports history!

7. Grudge match between Lauren and Svensson, 2016

The epic 2016 grudge match between Klara Svensson and Mikaela Laruen is by far the one of the biggest Swedish boxing fights ever.

When the fired-up rivals squared off at Hovet in Stockholm, with the vacant WBC interim welterweight title on the line, there was so much more at stake than just a world title.

Svensson and Laruen were the absolute best female boxers in Sweden at the time, but genuinely did not like each other. The two rivals had traded verbal jabs for months, fuelling the rivalry, before Svensson moved up a weight class and Lauren moved down, so they could finally duke it out at welterweight.

”It was a conflict that was for real, it was no act. Everyone felt the tension between us when we were in the same room,” Svensson said about the rivalry.

The fight went the distance in ten bloody and tough rounds, and after the final bell, Svensson stood as the winner via unanimous decision.

The fact that people still talk about the boxing bout, more than six years later, shows proof of how unique it was and the impact it in Sweden.

”I’m proud. We never had a hype like that ahead of a boxing bout in Sweden before,” Lauren said six years after the fight. ”I think it was a big thing for boxing and women’s sport. There were a lot of people that didn’t even know that boxing events could be arranged in Sweden.”