Category: Brian Ackley

  (TL FOX Note: “Standing Eight Count” made it’s debut in October 2002 as a monthly feature from WBAN senior editor Brian Ackley, offering news, notes and comment from the world of women’s boxing.  It’s been a while since one individual boxer as earned so much attention, but welcome to November’s Standing Eight Count, Ali

Was it really three years ago when Christy Martin and Diedre Gogarty thrust women’s boxing on to the American sports scene? You bet. That pay-per-view event, March 16, 1996, is universally recognized as the singular most important event in women’s boxing, maybe ever. Martin and Gogarty was a pay-per-view feature on a Mike Tyson undercard.