August 1, 1978
August 1978: First professional female boxer to make it on the cover of Ring Magazine – Cathy “Cat” Davis.
In August of 1978, Cathy “Cat” Davis was the first woman to ever make it on the cover of RING MAGAZINE. Unlike the response the public had over the highly publicized 1996 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED issue of Christy Martin, you would have thought that the world had come to an end. After Davis was featured on