Boxing Star-Studded Attendance at the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame!

(JUNE 12)  On July 10, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six Hotel, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the history-first International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame will be having many top female boxers, both former, retired, and current world champions. Our inductees are the following: Lucia Rijker, Christy Martin, Barbara Buttrick, Bonnie Canino, JoAnn Hagen, Christy Halbert, and Regina Halmich. Rijker is coming in from Los Angeles, California, Martin is travelling from North Carolina, and Halmich is flying in with her father from Berlin, Germany! All inductees will be present. Malissa Smith will be accepting the award for our posthumous boxer, JoAnn Hagen.

 TWO WBAN WORLD CHAMPIONS….

We will also be honored to have two of our WBAN world champion holders: Diana Prazak of Australia, and Chevelle Hallback present as special guests. Both Prazak and Hallback were our history-first WBAN holders. Hallback won the first-ever WBAN belt on Pay-Per-View in June of 2008, and Prazak won the WBAN belt in the history-first in 2013, in Sweden.

 OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS

Melissa Hernandez, Ada Velez, Alicia Ashley,  Terri Moss, Yvonne Reis, Belinda Laracuente, Susan Reno, Laura Ramsey, AnastasiaToktaulova, Dora and Cora Webber, Noemi Bosques, Ria Ramnarine.

This is truly a “baby step” in the sport to have an exclusive Hall of Fame for top honors for women boxers, and others in the sport who have substantially contributed to the sport.