Category: 1975

Documentation:  Tucson Daily Citizen, December 13, 1975, Page 12 Photo/Karen Mast On October 10, 1975, at the Community Center, Tucson, Arizona, in what was probably the FIRST Professional female bout to take place Marion Bermudez, who had boxed a couple of males in the ring in the amateurs, made her pro debut this night.  Her

  Source:  Press Telegram, Long Beach, California, Spetember 29, 1975, Page 21 – “George Robeson, “Feminist Fighters is the New Thing” On the weekend after September 29, 1975,  in a big outdoor show, the Press Telegram reported that there was a female boxing exhibition that featured Lydia “Squeaky” Bayardo, 16 year old high school student