Jeanne La Mar, a boxer from France came to the United States in 1922 to find fights. After failing to find anyone to fight in the U.S. she returned to France. [Photo: Jeanne La Mar – left]. Shortly after La Mar returned to her country, another female boxer, Germany’s champ according to an article written these boxers, Steffi Bernet (fourth from left on photo] arrived in the U. S. with a troop of female boxers, they too could not find any competition and returned to Germany.
Sue "TL" Fox, Multi-Hall of Famer, award-winning pioneer boxer rated #1 in the world in 1979, and creator/founder of WBAN™. She was named in the Feb. 2012 Commemorative issue of Ring Magazine as one of the Top-Ten Most Influential female boxers of all time. Since its inception on the Internet 27 plus years ago, WBAN has become the world’s leading authority for resource and information in female boxing. Fox outside the
ring is a professional musician and a retired police officer from Oregon. She also created and founded the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014. [In April of 2025, in Las Vegas, Fox will celebrate the 12th year anniversary of the IWBHF, and 27th year of WBAN as of May 18, 2025.]
