Jeannine Garside (born April 14, 1978) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2010. She was a two-weight world champion, having held the WIBA super-bantamweight title from 2005 to 2006; the WIBA featherweight title twice between 2006 and 2010; and the unified WBC and WBO female featherweight titles in 2010.
On 4 December 2004 at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington, Garside won her pro-debut when she defeated Heather Percival by a unanimous decision.[citation needed]
On 26 August 2005 at the Renaissance Worthington Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas, Garside improved to 2-0 as a pro with a four-round unanimous (39-36, 40-36, 40-36) decision over Rita Serrano.[citation needed]
On 8 October 2005 at the outdoor Amphitheater at Harrah’s in Laughlin, Nevada, Garside won by a TKO at 1:25 in the fifth round over Rita Valentini.[citation needed]
On 18 November 2005 at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Garside won the WIBA super-bantamweight title with a 10-round unanimous decision over Lisa Brown.[1]
On 16 February 2006 at Harrah’s in North Kansas City, Missouri, she won a third round TKO over Kim Colbert, in a scheduled six-round non-title bout[1][2]
After vacating her super-bantamweight title, Garside claimed the vacant WIBF featherweight championship with a unanimous decision win over Laura Serrano on 4 November 2006 at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[1]
On 3 July 2010, she defeated the WBC, WBO and WIBF female featherweight title holder Ina Menzer in Stuttgart, Germany, to become a unified world champion.[3][4] This proved to be her last fight as she retired to concentrate on her family.[5]
In 2015, Garside was inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame.[5]