Tiara Brown

CTL-E-7116 · Person · other · 1988–present

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Tiara Nichelle Brown, born June 1, 1988, is an American professional boxer from Fort Myers, Florida, who built her career in Washington, D.C. As an amateur she won gold at the 2012 world championships, per Most Valuable Promotions' signing coverage. She turned professional on September 30, 2016, in Washington, D.C., and for years boxed alongside a parallel career as a police officer — with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., where she was named Officer of the Year in March 2019, the first Black female officer to receive that award as her biographical record states, and later with the Fort Myers Police Department. On March 22, 2025, in Sydney, Australia, she beat the previously unbeaten Skye Nicolson by split decision — 97–93 and 96–94 for Brown, 96–94 for Nicolson, per the Associated Press report carried by ESPN — to win the WBC featherweight title at age 36. She defended the title against Emma Gongora by unanimous decision on September 20, 2025, and against Hannah Rapp by unanimous decision on June 13, 2026, in Orlando, standing 21–0 with 11 knockouts as the Naples News-Press reported that night. In January 2026 she signed with Most Valuable Promotions, ESPN reported.

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• Also known as: Tiara Nichelle Brown, The Dark Menace

Notes

Sports Encyclopedia roster CTL-SPE-0510. Scorecard disposition: the Nicolson split decision is carried in the Associated Press form (97-93, 96-94 Brown; 96-94 Nicolson); WomenBoxing.com's listing of the same cards is internally garbled and is not blended in. Policing disposition: the D.C. Metropolitan Police service and the March 2019 Officer of the Year honor (stated in her record as a first for a Black female officer) are carried as sourced; her later Fort Myers service is included so the record does not freeze her in the D.C. chapter, and resignation-year claims that conflict across profiles (2018 vs 2020) are deliberately not asserted. Firsts disposition: 2012 amateur world championship gold is attributed to the promotion's signing coverage rather than asserted independently. Curator's Judgment (DRAFT): Brown is the late-blooming champion of this lane — a title won on the road, at 36, after a full second career in uniform — and the record keeps both careers in frame. Photo: HELD — no depicting rights-clean photograph on Wikimedia Commons.

Sources

• Associated Press. "Former Cop Tiara Brown Wins Women's WBC Featherweight Title." ESPN, March 22, 2025. Accessed 2026-11-03. (build store)
• Andreas Hale. "Boxing Champions Brown, Jones Among Six Women to Sign with MVP." ESPN, January 29, 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03. (build store)
• News-Press. "Tiara Brown Retains WBC Featherweight Title with Win over Hannah Rapp." News-Press.com, June 14, 2026. Accessed 2026-11-03. (build store)
• Sue Fox. "Tiara Brown Biography." WomenBoxing.com. Accessed 2026-11-03. (build store)

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