Category: Flash from the Past

Copyrights:  Boxing Illustrated Magazine, October 1973 issue.

In the Corpus Christi Times, dated June 29, 1973, Page 8, they reported that Spectrum Boxing Director Russell Peltz wanted to put female boxing on a card.  The only problem was is:  Where do you find professional female boxers in 1973?! According to this article, not only Peltz was on the lookout, but so was his rival

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

About Kugler – a report by Sue Fox in 2002: “Matchmaker Johnnie Nate stands outside the Armory last Thursday night and tries to figure out why he was denied the rental of the building. Nate had scheduled a nine-bout amateur fight card for the building, but authorities in Indianapolis later cancelled him out. Nate believes it is

According to the Amarillo Daily News, dated November 14, 1957, Page 15, there was a report of the History-First Female boxing referee in Europe.  They reported the following: “STOCKHOLM, Sweden – (UP) – Mrs. Margareta Sjoelin, 25 years old, Europe’s FIRST FEMALE BOXING REFEREE and mother of three was the first.  Mrs. Sjoelin made a statement

Full Copyrights:  San Antonio Express – October 7, 1957 – English Girl Boxer in Classy Ring Drill “Opens Eyes in Workout for the First Offical Women’s World Championship”.

Photo credit:  Courtesy from the Kugler Family when she was inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame in July of 2015 (posthumous) “Phyllis Kugler posthumously was inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015.  her whole family attended the event in honor of Kugler, and her granddaugther displayed her boxing

In the Sandusky Register Star, November 11, 1955, Page 15, they reported that there was a female boxing bout set for the next Saturday at the Clyde Armory.  They reported the following: “Clydes’s Armory Saturday night will be the scene of a most unusual athletic attraction…in fact, it may be the first time anywhere….The possible

Full Copyrights:  Women’s Titlists, Circa 1949 The Press-Courier – April 12, 1972, page 8 In an article published on April 12, 1972, a woman with 10 children talks about her past boxing experience and claim that she was a former boxing champion from a November 1949 fight.  Her name was Mrs. Lancaster, of Lancaster, Tennessee.