(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
By Sue TL Fox- January 12, 2004 (JAN 12) Many wondered if the Nigerian Event “Battle of Hope Concert AID/HIV Awareness” that was to feature a mixture of music and boxing would take place on January 10, after the United States fighters did not go there to fight. First we found out that Mia St. John
On December 18, 2002, in front of sold out crowd at the Marriott Hotel in Irvine , CA , Para Draine of Spokane, Washington beat Marilyn Salcido of Rialto , California by a split decision to win the IFBA junior bantamweight title. The “ Battle of the Ballroom” fights at the Marriott have been around
Copyrighted photographs by : Sue TL Fox/WBAN The Rose Garden Arena, Portland, Oregon. Promoter: Golden Boy, Inc. Matchmaker: Ed Steinfeld Judges: Greg Baker, Joe Bonaventura, Bob Flamme, Jim Howard Referees: James Erickson, David Hagen, Darrell Lewis Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy, Inc promoted its second show in the Portland Rose Garden on Thursday, Nov.
I had decided that it was time to meet Laila Ali. She was one of the boxers that I had never covered ringside, and felt that this would be a good fight to meet her. I had heard very good things about Ali and the improvements that she has made in the sport…I also knew
Last night at the Fiesta Hall, in Imperial Beach, California, Attorney Mary Lehman won her second professional bout in a slugfest against Kimberly Reed with a unanimous decision. The fight was stopped in the 4th round after there was an accidental headbutt that caused a cut on Lehman that required eleven stitches. WBAN asked Lehman
(May 18) Last night, many Austin boxing fans watched with interest the two consecutive two-round exhibition bouts of Anissa “The Assassin” Zamarron. As a World Champion in 1998, she became an Austin favorite, and everyone was happy to see her back in the ring after a two-year layoff. The first bout with inexperienced Isabel Manyseng was
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (March 12) – Four women’s bouts have been firmed up by the matchmaker for the March 22 amateur boxing show to be held here at the Rave, 2401 W. Wisconsin Ave., by the Duke Roufus Gym. A fifth woman awaits a matchup which Roufus says he is sure will be made and
On June 12, 1978, at the Convention Centre in Winnipeg, Canada, female boxer Laurie Dennine from St. Paul, Minnesota, one of the boxers that Bill Paul had gotten into the sport, was set to fight a four-rounder against Mary Kudla, of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Big Donn Kirton, the broadcaster on Radio in Canada, was invited
Update: WBAN has just discovered that the first-ever women’s boxing bout to take place in the history of the sport took place on September 10, 1954 – between Barbara Buttrick vs. Joann Hagen. McADAM, New Brunswick—what is believed to be the SECOND ever female bout in Canada, was schedule on June 1, 1959. The female