Photo credit: Dalia Duran, IWBHF Board Member – Photo (Lucia Rijker, Bonnie Canino, Christy Halbert) Bonnie Canino spent so many years in the ring. She told WBAN, that she lost count of how many black eyes she had received in the sport—but she definitely remembers the first. Bonnie said, “I was four, and I got
JoAnn Hagen, a fighter in the fifties, was the only female to defeat Barbara Buttrick. She was very graceful in her movements when she boxed in the ring. Some interesting tidbits on Hagan (from The Police Gazette-June 1950): Hagen had appeared on the Steve Allen Show in November 1956. The show was viewable at the
1952- She ran the Boxing Training Camp in Pleasantville, New Jersey. Some of the boxers she handled included, Bob Montgomery, Johnny Bratton, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott and Gil Turner. New Jersey Woman Owns and Operates Thriving Training Camp For Prize Fighters – article 1966 But times have changed and so has the “fairer sex.”
Jurgen Lutz passed away June 13, 2019, a pioneering trailblazer from Germany. He founded the iconic Bulldog Gym in Karlsruhe in 1982 He was a world leader in the martial arts world before he turned his attention to women’s boxing. As Regina Halmich mentor and coach he steered her in the way of success through
Historic copyright information: Santa Fe, N.M., Sunday , October 28, 1984 THE NEW MEXICAN C-3 Santa Fe’s Darlina Valdez, who won the first world title ever decided in women’s boxing, will return to the ring for the first time in more than a year Saturday to take on Arlene Weber of Albuquerque in a six
Historic article: article in the South Bend Tribune Magazine – estimated year 1956. The Article is by Sarah Lockkerbie. It talks about her eight years in boxing, and that sometimes she had to resort to wrestling when boxing was not allow. It also reports that she participated in CANADA’s FIRST EVENT of the kind, Stage
The background of this photo may be part of PUNCH Magazine. Wiki describes it as as the following: Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term “cartoon” in its
Barbara Buttrick was on the fight scene a good many years. In these photos, we see her in a private bout held in a carnival tent in Iowa. In August of 1954. Her opponent was Vivian Foster. Despite the weight difference–Barbara only weighed 95 lbs., Vivian quit after a third-round knockout. [This document is in
In 1923, Hitler himself had occasion to watch female fisticuffs. The circumstances were such that Hitler and one of his early friends, Ernst Putzi Hanfstaengl had spent a Sunday visiting the Berlin National Gallery. Afterwards, according to Hanfstaengl’s memoirs, “The Missing Years” published in London in 1957, “We watched the women boxers in Luna
In the top left photo, Reid lands a left to Therese Robitaille’s chin, Copyrights: The Whig-Standard, dated July 30, 1991; and in the bottom right photo Robitaille (left) backs away from a right delivered by Reid, copyrights: Rob Cowperthwaite/The Kingston Whig-Standard/Postmedia Network.] Jenny Reid, born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Toronto, Ontario, she was