Written by Christopher Benedict “Whatever you do,” Nancy Thompson famously warns her boyfriend Glen in A Nightmare on Elm Street, “don’t fall asleep.” Playing opposite a then-unknown Johnny Depp in the franchise’s original slasher flick, Heather Langenkamp portrayed Nancy Thompson, ultimately going toe-to-toe with the Christmas-sweater-wearing Elm Street boogeyman in three movies while becoming one of
Written by: Christopher Benedict The advent of talkies in the late 1920s not only irreversibly altered the landscape of motion pictures, but impacted several other major aspects of the entertainment industry. For example, by the time most theaters nationwide were wired for sound in 1930, vaudevillians who had performed at many of these same venues
Written by: Christopher Benedict Theresa Kibby was looking to turn things around after having her formerly flawless record tarnished twice over by roller derby sensation turned professional pugilist Diane Syverson. After first dueling to a four-round draw with the skating ‘Slugger Queen’ from Canada, Princess Red Star lost a disputed decision in their rematch three
Written by Christopher Benedict Born April 18, 1939 in East Oklahoma and residing in the mining town of Virginia City, Nevada in the summer of 1975, Caroline Svendsen had already lived a pretty full life. A child bride at thirteen, Svendsen was divorced two times and counting. She was a mother to a pair of
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