Anissa Meksen is a French kickboxer who is currently signed with Glory. She is the reigning ISKA World K1 Bantamweight champion and the reigning WAKO World K1 Bantamweight champion. She is the former two time Glory Super Bantamweight champion, and the former WPMF World Muay Thai Flyweight champion. She is also the former French, European and World Savate Champion. Glory ranks her as the #1 Super Bantamweight as of June 2020, WBC Muaythai as #1 Super Bantamweight as of April 2020, Combat Press ranks her as the #1 pound for pound female fighter in the world as of May 2020. Combat Press has ranked her in the top ten since November of 2016, when female rankings were introduced, and has been ranked #1 almost continuously since July 2017. In 2014 she was the Muaythai TV Fighter of the year, while Awakening Fighters awarded her the Fighter of the Year, Inspirational Fighter of the Year, as well as the KO of the Year. In 2017 Combat Press voted her the Fighter of the Year. In the same year Glory Kickboxing voted her the Newcomer of the Year.
In 2008 Meksen participated in the Nuit de Champions tournament. In the quarter final bout, she defeated Maiva Hamadouche. In the semi finals she defeated Jacqueline Beroud. In the final bout of the tournament, she fought and won a unanimous decision against Cyrielle Girodias. During World Muaythai Auspicious Celebration, Meksen fought Monoprangroj Kampetch for the S1 Savante Bantamweight title. She won a unanimous decision. After winning her next two fights, Meksen challenged Sor Tawanrung Kwanjai for the WPMF World Muay Thai title. Meksen lost by decision. Meksen won her next two fights, before once against contesting the WPMF World Muay Thai title, this time against Hongthong Liangbrasert. Meksen won the fight by unanimous decision. In 2014, she participated in the season five of Enfusion Reality: Victory of the Vixen. Meksen won her first three fight and faced Iman Barlow in the finals. She won the fight with a stunning second round KO. Meksen went of a five fight winning streak, before contesting the WFC European Bantamweight Muay Thai title against Yolande Alonso. She won the fight by a high kick KO in the second round. She then entered the 2015 Kunlun K-1 Bantamweight Tournament. After beating Kailin Ren in the quarter finals, and Xu Zhurong in the semi finals, she faced E Meidie in the finals. She would lose the final bout by decision, after two extra rounds. After another five fight winning streak, she was scheduled to fight Therese Gunnarsson for the WAKO World K1 Bantamweight title. She would win a unanimous decision. Meksen would win her next five fights before fighting Chiara Vincis for the ISKA World Bantamweight title. Meksen won a unanimous decision.
Glory Kickboxing
In 2017 she fought Funda Diken Alkayis in the Glory Super Bantamweight Conteder Fight. Meksen won by TKO in the third round. In 2017 Anissa Meksen defeated Tiffany van Soest to win the Glory title. Her first title defense was scheduled to be against Amel Dehby. Meksen won the fight by a unanimous decision. During Glory 56: Denver she faced Jady Menezes in her second title defense. Meksen lost a highly controversial split decision, that would be dubbed the "Robbery of the Year" by Combat Press. Meksen would regain the title in a rematch three months later by way of TKO. In the first title defense of her second reign, Meksen faced Tiffany van Soest. Meksen won the fight by a split decision. In her second title defense, she faced Sofia Olofsson. She won the fight by TKO, after the doctor stopped the fight after just two minutes. During Glory 71: Chicago she rematched Tiffany van Soest. Meksen would lose a unanimous decision.
