▪️This will be Moreira’s fourth fight as a pro boxer and she’s confident of dethroning the UK-based boxer of Ghanaian descent
March 20, 2026
Cape Verde’s most decorated female boxer Ivanusa Moreira returns to the ring on April 10, 2026, in Accra to challenge Ghana’s UK-based Sedem Ama for her WBA Africa super-welterweight title.
Moreira shared the fight poster with boxersworld.co.ke indicating the eight-round title fight will take place at the Bukom Arena in Accra, Ghana.
Based in Porto with her husband Jorge Silva, Moreira is one of the growing number of boxers who have decided to combine pro and amateur boxing.
A gold medallist at the 2023 Africa Championships in Yaounde, Cameroon, Moreira is confident of overcoming Ama to fulfill her ambition of fighting in Las Vegas, widely considered the boxing capital of the world or the “Mecca of Boxing,” particularly since the 1980s, serving as the premier destination for major high-stakes fights.
“This is my passport to Las Vegas and I will not miss this opportunity,” Moreira told me in a telephone interview from Porto where she is preparing for the fight under her coach, manager and husband, Jorge Silva.
“I am an African champion, I am an Olympic athlete more experienced than her. I am going to beat her infront of her home fans.
“Yes I will fight at her house but that does not intimidate me. I have Cape Verde, Portugal and thousands of fans around the world backing me.”
“I will train hard for the fight, and spend what I have to prepare myself 100%.”
On why she turned professional, Moreira said it’s a normal phase for any boxer.
“I went to professional because they are the phases of every athlete to go through. I will continue in Olympic boxing until I am 40 years old.”
Moreira is one of the top boxers expected to grace this year’s $1000,000 IBA Africa Men’s and Women’s Championships. The eagerly awaited tournament is expected to draw a full house.
The polished Moreira burst into the limelight at the 2019 African Games in Rabat, Morocco, winning a bronze medal.
At the 2022 World Championships she missed the medal bracket by a whisker, losing in the quarter-finals to Canada’s Charlie Cavanagh, the eventual silver medallist.
The following year she won her first gold medal in the Africa Championships in Yaounde, Cameroon, outpointing Morocco’s Oumayma Bel Ahbib.
Moreira was on her way to her second gold medal in the inaugural Mandela African Boxing Cup in Durban, South Africa but lost on points in the finals to DR Congo’s Brigitte Mbabi in 2024.
She made her debut in the Olympics in Paris 2024, losing in the round of 16 to Belgium’s Oshin Derieuw.
An ambassador for the Gender Equality in Sport campaign, Moreira’s ambition to win a medal in the World Championships in 2025 was thwarted by Kazakhstan’s Zhasmin Kizatova who defeated her in the round of 16.
Unbeaten in three fights as a pro boxer, Moreira last fought in 2025, defeating Katerina Lisova of Czech Republic.
Sedem Ama is a former national amateur champion who won the WBA Africa female super welterweight title in December 2025. An undefeated fighter (5-0, 1 KO), she is known for her background in PR and her transition from the corporate world to professional boxing.
She is a UK-based fighter of Ghanaian descent, formerly a two-time national amateur boxing champion.
On December 20, 2025, she fought at the Legon Sports Stadium in Accra, defeating Nigerian boxer Chiamaka Nwaturuocha by majority decision to win the WBA Africa Super Welterweight title.
In addition to boxing, she has a background in the corporate sector and worked in public relations.
She was named the “Unrivalled Diasporan Rising Star of the Year 2025” for her impact on female boxing in Ghana.
Her fight against Chiamaka was considered one of the biggest female boxing matches in Ghana, organized by Legacy Rise Sports Promotions.
