Sara Bailey (née Haghighat-Joo) (Persian: ساعی بیلی; born 17 June 1994) is a Canadian-Iranian-Sierra Leonean professional boxer who holds the WBA female light-flyweight World title.
[5][6] She was selected to take part in the light-flyweight division at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, but was disqualified before her quarter-final bout with Uganda's Teddy Nakimuli after failing to make the required 50 kg weight limit by a mere 0.1 kg, something she blamed on a discrepancy between the test scales and the official scales.
[7][8] In September 2022, Bailey became the first Sierra Leonean to win a gold medal at the African Elite Boxing Championships when she defeated Algeria's Fatma Zohra Abdelkader in the bantamweight final in Maputo, Mozambique.
[11][12] In just her fourth pro-fight, Bailey claimed the WBA female World light-flyweight title (Regular version), beating defending champion Guadalupe Bautista by unanimous decision in Toronto, Canada, on 27 April 2024.
[4][13][14][15] Bailey successfully defended her WBA light flyweight title for the first time against Anabel Ortiz in Toronto on 12 December 2024, winning by unanimous decision.