(JULY 23) Alicia Napoleon won a unanimous decision over Kita Watkins, in a six round middleweight bout, on the top of Ronson Frank’s Uprising Promotions’ action packed seven fight card at the Five Star Banquet Hall in Long Island City in Queens, NY, on Friday night. Napoleon, 155, raised her record to 7-0 while the
(JAN 31) Eight luminaries, whose careers in boxing span nearly five decades, comprise the third class of the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF). The announcement of the honored inductees was made on Saturday at the WBC Female Boxing Convention in Tijuana, Mexico. The group includes seven boxers from both the “modern era” (1990-2010)
(JULY 28) Thus far this year, the sport of professional Women’s boxing, in the United States, where the vast majority of female fighters reside and train, has progressed, (if that term can be stretched far enough to apply), along much the same lines as the past five, quite possibly ten years have unfolded in the
Alicia Ashley was awarded a TKO win over a game, but outgunned, Nohimme Dennisson at the top of Uprising Promotion’s seven bout boxing card, Wednesday night, before the customary sell out throng of local fight fans at the Five Star Banquet Hall in Long Island City, N.Y. Ashley, who came to the bout at
(FEB 13) Heather Hardy won her eighth straight professional bout on Wednesday night, but it wasn’t easy. The undefeated Brooklyn super bantamweight eked out a razor thin split decision over a game, aggressive Cristina Fuentes in the feature bout of a nine fight DiBella Entertainment card at the historic Roseland Ballroom, which will be razed
(FEB 7) Myriam Lamare has announced her retirement from the boxing ring after more than ten years and twenty- six bouts in which the French welterweight fought every top boxer in her weight class, winning twenty-two times. Those are the statistics. But mere numbers don’t begin scratch the surface of capturing just how skilled
On June 15 Holly Holm out-pointed Anne Sophie Mathis over ten rounds in Albuquerque, NM, reversing a seventh round TKO win by Mathis six months earlier in the same New Mexico venue. The two bouts were landmarks in the sport of Women’s boxing as they matched fighters who many in the sport consider the two
The Olympic Games begin in a few weeks and during this quadrennial event the sport of Women’s boxing is making a historic debut. Much has been written about what the debut of female boxers in the 2012 Games will mean to the sport; what impact the Games will have on the future of female boxing,
In a media teleconference, originating from Colorado Springs, USA Boxing introduced Queen Underwood as the newest addition to the 2012 Olympic female boxing squad. Underwood, who will compete as a lightweight, joins flyweight Marlen Esparaza and middleweight Claressa Shields on the three woman US squad that will compete in London in July. The Seattle
Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan, until they get hit.” As I was watching a serviceable tape of Friday’s ten round WBAN, IBA, WBF female welterweight title fight between Holly Holm and Anne Sophie Mathis from Albuquerque, NM, it appeared that Holm’s team had devised a plan that was a brief variation of