On Thursday, February 26, 1976, in Portland, Maine, Lady Tyger Trimiar fought Margie “KO” Dunson. According to the Newport (R.I.) Daily News, dated February 27, 1976, Friday, they reported the following. “For Marian Trimiar, who is known in the ring as “Tyger or “Black Kojak”, 22 years old, defeated Dunson, 25 years old, by a TKO in the fourth round.
It was one of two female bouts, with one being an EXHIBITION MATCH between Cathy “Cat” Davis vs. Gwen Gemini.
As documented in this article, they wrote that although Lady Tyger Trimiar has boxed in several EXHIBITION FIGHTS, it was Miss Dunson’s first professional match.
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.]
