Story by Sue TL Fox – September 4, 1999. Copyrighted. All rights Reserved. At the beginning of September of 1999, we discovered from a Bremerton Newspaper in the State of Washington, that there was going to be a “History’s First” with the first sanctioned bout between a man and a woman. The woman, 36-year
On February 11, 1999, WBAN was able to contact Bonnie Prestwood, another past World-class Bantamweight/Flyweight boxers in the World from 1978 – 1986. Prestwood still resides in Indiana. She told me that she boxed for about ten years. She said that she had so many unofficial fights in small towns in many make-shift situations that
The fight between Lucia Rijker and Marcela Acuna had a very familiar ring to it, and I not talking about a boxing ring. Just when I thought that women boxing was making headway—in this fight and Acuna’s last fight with Martin, I see some similarities that emulate the the 70’s. [photo: by Mary Ann Owen]
(AUGUST 21, 2022) Yes, I understand folks that we at times want to bury the true history of the sport—especially when “today’s” promoters want so badly to claim a “History-first”. Please for those doing that, don’t erase the blood, sweat, and tears of those before today’s boxers. I remember all too well when a fighter claimed
Full copyrighted article: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/women-in-gloves/ Dated: September 3, 1987 – by Jeff Carlson Boxing is boxing. Whether the fighters are male or female, the blood is one color, the bruises look the same, and the same skills apply to winning a bout. The only difference in equipment is that women wear breast protectors and men wear
Lady Tyger Trimiar, former World lightweight champion, made headlines in April of 1987, when she went on a “hunger strike” for over a month, losing 30 lbs., in protest to how women boxers were treated and paid. Her hunger strike was directed at infamous DON KING. Two other female fighters were also on a hunger
It has long been Monsieur Chabut’s desire to find outside competition for the girl boxers who train at the Foyer Club de Grenoble. Even when we took Kiki to Grenoble in 1980 this hope eluded us, as the only girls available, Isabelle and Marle-Pierre, were much lighter, only ‘sparring’ being allowed, though the match with the latter was
Laurie “Thunderbolt” Holt of the Waterville Boxing Club is the new women’s super featherweight champion of the world. She won the crown with a unanimous 15-round decision lover Cora “White Sugar” Webber of Los Angeles in a fight that ended early Tuesday morning in Denver, Colorado. The International Women’s Boxing Association title fight was scored
I recently paid a visit to the Foyer Club De Grenoble. Before doing so I had written to M. Chabut, who runs the club, asking if I could call on him and see the girls in training, to which he readily agreed. Imagine my surprise on arrival to find that he had arranged a small tournament for
In a flash from the past on March 24, 1984, women’s bout that was scheduled for ten rounds at the Kennebec Valley Vocational Technical Institute, in Waterville, Maine, Laurie Ann Holt, 126 lbs., of Waterville, won a close majority decision over Cheryl Brown, 127 lbs., of Winslow, Maine. With the fighter pool being very limited