Month: June 1978

On June 12, 1978, at the Convention Centre in Winnipeg, Canada, female boxer Laurie Dennine from St. Paul, Minnesota, one of the boxers that Bill Paul had gotten into the sport, was set to fight a four-rounder against Mary Kudla, of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Big Donn Kirton, the broadcaster on Radio in Canada, was invited

Photo by Jack Pokress/WBAN given permission to publish photo. In what was a questionable “changed decision” AFTER a fight that took place on June 7, 1978, in Atlanta, Georgia – Ernestine Jones TKO’d Cathy “Cat” Davis in the Third Round.   After Davis was clearly stopped in the bout, her manager contested the fight and it was declared at