Day: August 22, 2016

WBAN Story: Hardy and Vincent Shine at the Beach – by Bernie McCoy

(AUG 22)  Heather Hardy and Shelly Vincent brought their unbeaten records to the southernmost tip of Brooklyn, commonly known as Coney Island, staging a ten round donnybrook that stole the show at the Premier Boxing program, promoted in conjunction with Lou Di Bella’s Di Bella Entertainment at the open air Ford Amphitheater, hard by the

Claressa Shields Took Her Place in American Boxing History: Two-time Gold Medal Winner Source/AIBA Press Release

(AUG 22)  Claressa Shields took her place in American boxing history on Sunday afternoon, when she became the country’s first boxer to win two Olympic gold medals. Shields once again dominated the Middleweight (75kg) competition from the outset, working her way through to the last-day final against the Netherlands’ Nouchka Fontijn. It was another hugely