APRIL 14, 1884: Check out THIS female Pioneer Boxer! The article states the following: “No Woman did more to popularize female boxing than ANNA LEWIS. It was she who ORIGINATED the challenge for the first championship match. She met HATTIE STEWART on April 14, 1884, but lost the fight. LEWIS was a native of Washington DC. ANNA fought ALL comers. In a woodcut of this photo, ANNA learned how to take punches from a man named BILLY RUSSELL, her trainer. Her best fighting weight was 127 lbs.” [Source: Newspaper article from 1984]
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.]
