HELEN HILDRETH, the Lady Pugilist, was having the best of it in a MIXED FIGHT with Johnny Atkinsson, when the POLICE and BOXING COMMISSION Fred Wenck jumped into the RING and ORDERED the stop to fight! – Grupp’s Gym, N.Y.C.
In another publication, they reported the following HILDRETH: Tonight, the vaudeville that was the talk of the town last Miss Helen Hildreth, the boxing girl, will fight in a three-round bout, assisted by assisted by John Atkinson in “Fighting” It Out.” This young lady is the only girl who ever defeated a man in a prize ring. Publication: Middletown Daily Times – May 6, 1916, page four.
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.]
