February 28, 2025
Shirley ‘Zebra Girl’ Tucker: A Boxing Pioneer of a Different Stripe
Written by Christopher Benedict “The majority of women in professional boxing is in it for the money. Otherwise, we wouldn’t subject ourselves to the catcalls and remarks on how undignified boxing is for young ladies,” Shirley Tucker wrote in an October 18, 1977 editorial printed in the San Francisco Examiner. The byline simply carried her