Ana “The Hurricane” Julaton is actually Luciana “Ana” B. Julaton. She was born on July 05, 1980 in San Francisco, California. She is Filipino, born and raised in the USA by parents who descended from Filipino immigrants. Presently, she holds a record of 7 wins, 1 by way of knockout, 2 losses and 1 draw. For somebody who debuted her boxing career at 24 years old, becoming the first ever Filipino-American boxer to win women titles for the IBA Super Bantamweight and the WBO Super Bantamweight is definitely a very remarkable accomplishment.
Her training was purely on martial arts. However, while growing up, she did not have much interest in taking either martial arts or boxing seriously. Six years ago, everything would change when she became a bok-fu instructor at the West Win Martial Arts and Boxing School. She started having interest in taking martial arts seriously and eventually decided to box professionally.
Her amateur conquest came as a success when she bagged the silver title in San Francisco Golden Glove. Her foundation in martial arts helped her ink her name in the boxing world even if she was just trained for a week for the said tournament. Her next fight was in 2005 in the National Golden Glove boxing competition. It was here that she started to get noticed. In fact, she had such a marvelous performance that trainer Rick Noble and two time division world champion Carina Moreno agreed to take her in. Because of this, her boxing skills were put to the test and improved even more.
In 2007, she debuted as a professional boxer and won against Rita Valentin. For this fight, she trained under the guidance of Freddie Roach, the famous coach of fellow Filipino champ Manny Pacquiao. This showed her interest and fervor to really succeed in this sport. She had some more wins in the ring before she finally brought home her very first title, the IBA Super Bantamweight, in a fight against Kelsey “The Road Warrior” Jeffries in 2009.
When skeptics thought that she would never win again, Julaton proved why she was dubbed as the Hurricane in a title fight against much more experienced boxer Donna Biggers who had a 19-wins, 16 by way of knock out, record. She won the match and became the very first WBO World Champion in the Super Bantamweight women’s division.
She experienced defeat under the hands of Lisa “Bad News” Brown of Ontario Canada for the WBA Superbantamweight World Championship. Yet, she prevailed afterwards after winning against Mexican Superbantamweight Champion Maria Villalobos reclaiming the WBO title back.