Cartoon portraying a swimmer in boxing gloves – no know exact date – 1925. Copyrighted historical data...
Sue TL Fox
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.]
On July 24, 1924, page 7, there is a story on Lura Bennett, referring to her as...
Until the 1950s, Europeans typically associated women’s boxing and wrestling with vaudeville acts rather than proper young...
Here is an extract from an article about the history of women’s boxing in the Police Gazette...
Source/written by: CATHY VAN INGEN, PhD, Department of Kinesiology Brock University “Seeing What Frames Our Seeing”: Seeking...
So do you think that Caroline Svendsen was the first female in the United States...
In the Sioux City Journal, August 27, 1923, Page 7, it is reported that in Berlin, Germany,...
On July 17, 1923, it was reported in the Lowell Sun that Jeanne La Mar received her...
On March 24, 1923, it was reported in the Logansport Pharos-Tribune (page five), there was a public...
Lady Boxer at the Moose / Source: Monessen Daily Independent Thursday, October 19, 1922 / Volume...
