Dina Thorslund, the former WBC and WBO bantamweight titleholder from Denmark, recently announced that her pregnancy has ended in a miscarriage. She went on to say that she has decided to work through her grief by boxing again and trying to regain her world titles.
“The feelings are big and sad, but life goes on, and we then have to keep up with it and adapt in the best way,” Thorslund wrote in Danish on her Instagram account. “I know I need to take care of myself, and so do I and my family, but I also need to work on something.”
Thorslund was all set to fight then-IBF titleholder Shurretta Metcalf on the MVP event staged at New York’s Madison Square Garden on July 11, but she had to pull out due to her pregnancy. Metcalf then fought WBA titlist Cherneka Johnson, who is now the division’s undisputed champion.
“I have asked my manager Lee Eaton to contact my promoter, Most Valuable Promotions, and ask to get my titles back before the New Year,” Thorslund wrote. She added that Johnson is “‘holding them for me’ and it’s a match I’m very much looking forward to!”
Eaton, also on social media, responded that Thorslund will get her titles back. How that could come together, with Thorslund now the WBC’s “champion in recess” and having been stripped of the WBO title, remains to be seen.
