Sue “TL” Fox, former World Class Female Boxer, rated #1 in the world in 1979 by Boxing Illustrated, is the creator/founder of WBAN™. She was honored to be named in the Feb. 2012 Commemorative issue of Ring Magazine as one of the Top-Ten Most Influential female boxers of all time. Throughout the years, Fox has been awarded from different entities in the sport, and was inducted into the hall of fame with the Golden State Boxers Association, in Los Angeles, California, in November of 2013. WBAN has become the world’s leading authority for resource and information in female boxing. FULL BIOGRAPHY OF FOX
In 2004, Fox created/founded the first time in history a independent world title belt for only the best of the best in the sport. She did it without any fees from promoters, and base it on the top ranked female boxers in the world. WBAN debuted the WBAN P4P World title belts in June of 2008, with Holly Holm and Chevelle Hallback became the history-first WBAN title holders. Holm went on to fight three more times for the WBAN P4P World title belt, winning a total of three WBAN belts.
In the beginning of 2014, she also created the first ever International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame. After the IWBHF was created we then saw that other hall of fames began inducting female boxers. To read on the IWBHF and find out our upcoming event, go to https://iwbhf.com [IWBHF].
In 2023, WBAN began a new program were any trailblazer pioneer female boxers that received an award with the IWBHF whether they were inducted and/or received a special award at the IWBHF, and fought as a professional prior to 2004 and never had an opportunity to fight for a world title belt or a WBAN Belt, received a WBAN MINI-BELT, as demonstrated in this photo, with 1970’s boxer, Yvonne Barkley.
Our history-first WBAN Mini Belt holders received their belts in our event that took place in 2023. From left to right on the above photo, Jamie Johnson, center Pat Pineda, and far right, Dar Buckskin with Sue TL Fox above them.
