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Melissa Del Valle (born June 2 1969 in New York) is an American multiple champion in the sport of women’s boxing both at the amateur and professional levels.A member of a sports-minded family of Puerto Rican immigrants Del Valle took up boxing in the early 1990s while her older brother Lou Del Valle was making a name for himself as a light-heavyweight boxer.Then fighting under her married name of Melissa Salamone Del Valle won the New York state Golden Gloves title at 132 pounds in both 1996 and 1997.