Amateur Week: Miss Boxing

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The German-based NAC federation is not one that most fans know a lot about, and with the possible exception of a serial champion like Italy's Monia Gioiosa, the majority of female muscle heads would be hard-pushed to name any of its leading ladies. In that respect, it appears to have much in common with its British equivalent - NABBA. There's much to appreciate - the ladies appear drenched in oil and tanning products, they are often magnificently ripped, and they pose in thongs - but they hardly ever get the kind of attention (here and elsewhere) that IFBB/NPC competitors do.

Over the next couple of days [actually just today now thanks to yesterday's no post - ed.] we'll be spotlighting two competitors with extensive contest histories, both of whom have enjoyed recent success in one of those two less celebrated federations.

First up, it's the Romanian-born Hungary-based NAC Figure legend Judit Palecian.


Judit in her kickboxing days

Judit was a dancer in her youth, but later began a very successful kickboxing career, and she still uses the nickname "Miss Boxing" for her Facebook page. She was a World Champion in 2002 and again in 2003, after which she began to focus solely on Bodybuilding. She has won World and European titles in NAC, IBFA, IBFF, and WBPF contests over a period of many years - one article from last year claims she had held as many as 11 World and 3 European titles between 2014 and 2016 alone!




Most recently though, she defended her NAC Over 40 Figure title at their World Championships in the Philippines at the beginning of June. And thanks to German supersite Frey Nutrition, we have (literally) thousands of images of the ladies from that contest to enjoy, including many of the beautiful and beautifully-shredded Judit.



Frey also captured Judit's winning routine - thong, heels and all!



I doubt the IFBB/NPC bigwigs pay much attention to how other federations do things, but watching Judit performing her routine here (as well as previous routines, which are not difficult to find, by the way) I can't help but dare to dream that one day in the not-too-distant future we might see - for example - Cydney Gillon or Maria Luisa Baeza Diaz flexing on the Olympia stage like this Figure World Champion.


Relaxing in Cebu after her NAC Worlds victory

Perhaps even in thongs!

Enjoy!