Day: October 1, 1980

  In memory of Boxing promoter/writer Johnny Dubliss, WBAN posted a story he published in the WBB Glove magazine (now defuncted), October 1980 issue.  Dubliss strongly supported female boxing and promoted cards featuring women.  In the Chatter Box News in this issues he reported about guidelines that the California State Athletic Commission had made in regards

In October of 1980, Dickson was called the “Father of Women’s Boxing” in the Boxing Illustrated Magazine…..Hyatt Lake Tahoe matchmaker Bill Dickson is at it again.  But unlike Cupid whose work keeps the hotel full of honeymooners, Dickson’s matchmaking brings together athletes bent on pummeling each other. In boxing, that is the nature of the