Buse Uncu (3-0-0) has taken a five year hiatus from boxing. Her Comeback is on February 6, 2027. The super bantamweight from Urla, Izmir, returns to the professional ring at the EWS Arena in Göppingen, Germany, for her fourth fight. Former world champion Fırat Arslan promotes the card. It will be a test, because a layoff that long can erase sharpness, timing, and rhythm no matter how good a fighter was before it.
Her story starts in December 2020, when Uncu and manager İlker Furat connected through social media. She told him she wanted to turn professional. She came with credentials: she had won at the local level across Türkiye and reached third place in the national rankings. Furat took her on, and their partnership began.
The timing could not have been worse. Furat described 2020 and 2021 as their “misfortune,” because the pandemic shut down boxing almost everywhere. Uncu and Furat could not wait for Türkiye to reopen, so they went where the work was. They teamed up with a promoter in Germany, and Uncu made her professional debut there in October 2021.
What she did next deserves attention. According to Furat, they staged three fights in Germany while almost no one else could get a bout. Uncu won all three, and two of those wins came by knockout, a 66.67 percent finishing rate. She beat Nana Dokadze, Bettina Krumholz, and Stephanie Wirt. Three fights is a small sample, and I won’t oversell it. Still, a debuting fighter who wins every time and finishes two-thirds of her opponents has shown real power and composure.
Then the progress stopped. Furat said disagreements with the German promoter ended that arrangement, and the team stepped away from professional boxing. They did not stop working. They kept Uncu active through local championships and built sponsorship support, which is how a fighter stays in shape when the fights dry up. Whether that preparation matches the pace of a professional camp, February will answer.
Furat began preparing for her fourth professional fight in 2026, and the plan is clear. Uncu wants to extend her unbeaten run and climb the world rankings. The strategy works on paper, but a five-year gap means she cannot treat the comeback as a formality. Her opponent, her conditioning, and her sharpness in the first few rounds will matter more than her record.
Uncu goes back to Germany, where she won all three of her fights, with Furat and the 12 Raund Sports team behind her. She helped open the door for Turkish women in professional boxing, and now she has to prove the door stays open. She will do that herself, in the ring, on February 6th.
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