London’s female boxer Annie Newton, was born in 1893 in Highgate, North London, and passed away in 1955. Annie began appearing in stage shows and fairground tents, at the young age of 10, and in those shows she would spar with men, to raise money for various charities. She boxed for 14 years. Annie who
Copyrighted by Scranton Republic – 1888 WBAN has an original complete, genuine issue of THE SCRANTON REPUBLICAN newspaper from Pennsylvania, dated Sept. 17, 1888. Front page article headed: “Female Prize Fight”. This article takes about three-quarters of a column near the middle of the front page. WBAN has a complete four-page issue of this paper.
APRIL 14, 1884: Check out THIS female Pioneer Boxer! The article states the following: “No Woman did more to popularize female boxing than ANNA LEWIS. It was she who ORIGINATED the challenge for the first championship match. She met HATTIE STEWART on April 14, 1884, but lost the fight. LEWIS was a native of Washington
New York Herald: March 8, 1869 – Women’s Boxing An article reprinted in the Chicago Tribune (reprinted March 13, 1869. Boxing Match (prizefight) that took place between two women around 140 years ago. Sally C. Chapman vs. Mary Ann Jones. It took place in Boston and Sally Chapman was declared the winner in the twenty first
WBAN has it our archived files of the hsitory of the sport, an early print of two women in a fighting stance, published January 26, 1776. The name of the piece is called “The Female Combatants” and is listed to be on page 27 of a writing. Fig. 3 – Anonymous cartoon from the Revolutionary
Women in boxing since 1722. In that year, Elizabeth Wilkinson and Hannah (Ann Field) Hyfield advertised they would box in London for 3 guineas; but according to some reports (not all) this match never took place in any event, they did box (barefisted) in 1728) and Wilkinson whose last name is now Stokes – won