Category: Flash from the Past

Mixed Match in Seattle: McGregor vs. Chow – 1999

   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

Historic Article: Pioneer Boxer – Bonnie Prestwood from the 1970s and 1980s

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

Del Pettis Talks about her boxing history in 1987

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

Woman Boxer Goes on a month long hunger strike against Don King….1987!

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

Foyer Club de Grenoble France: Competitive Boxing at Last

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

A Visit to the Foyer Club de Grenoble – (1984) by Medala

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