October 22, 2026

Flash from the Past

Barnstorming Through Council Bluffs: JoAnn Hagen Takes On Pat Emerick and Wrestler Bev Lehmer Over Thanksgiving Week 1949 5ae34ee003b72.image_-658x1024

Barnstorming Through Council Bluffs: JoAnn Hagen Takes On Pat Emerick and Wrestler Bev Lehmer Over Thanksgiving Week 1949

Sue TL Fox February 20, 2025
Article by Christopher Benedict The Bendix plant that opened in South Bend, Indiana in 1923 quickly established...
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Barbara Buttrick and Phyllis Kugler Fight in First Sanctioned Women’s Championship Match Deep in the Heart of Texas z2

Barbara Buttrick and Phyllis Kugler Fight in First Sanctioned Women’s Championship Match Deep in the Heart of Texas

Sue TL Fox February 18, 2025
Written by Christopher Benedict “Wow—Lookie Here For The First Time In Texas” screamed the bold-type print on the...
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Nancy Thompson’s Boxing Career May Not Have Been a Hollywood Dream, But it Was Far From a Nightmare zzzNancyThompson-historic1

Nancy Thompson’s Boxing Career May Not Have Been a Hollywood Dream, But it Was Far From a Nightmare

Sue TL Fox February 2, 2025
Written by Christopher Benedict “Whatever you do,” Nancy Thompson famously warns her boyfriend Glen in A Nightmare on...
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Who Better Than a Woman? Boxing Pioneer Belle Martell: First Female Promoter, Ring Announcer, Timekeeper, and Referee Belle

Who Better Than a Woman? Boxing Pioneer Belle Martell: First Female Promoter, Ring Announcer, Timekeeper, and Referee

Sue TL Fox January 30, 2025
Written by:  Christopher Benedict The advent of talkies in the late 1920s not only irreversibly altered the...
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Theresa Kibby vs. Lavonne Ludian Las Vegas Rubber Match Was First Nationally Televised Women’s Fight 274803267_1575236982859326_5793246297893837883_n

Theresa Kibby vs. Lavonne Ludian Las Vegas Rubber Match Was First Nationally Televised Women’s Fight

Sue TL Fox January 24, 2025
Written by:  Christopher Benedict Theresa Kibby was looking to turn things around after having her formerly flawless...
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Flash From the Past: Bonnie Canino Inducted into the History-First International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame July 10, 2014! canino2

Flash From the Past: Bonnie Canino Inducted into the History-First International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame July 10, 2014!

Sue TL Fox July 26, 2024
Bonnie Canino spent so many years in the ring.  She told WBAN, that she lost count of...
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Flash From the Past: Posthumous JoAnn Hagen Entered the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame in July of 2014 2014inducteesfirstyear1-2000-768x586

Flash From the Past: Posthumous JoAnn Hagen Entered the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame in July of 2014

Sue TL Fox July 26, 2024
JoAnn Hagen, a fighter in the fifties, was the only female to defeat Barbara Buttrick. She was...
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