Category: Flash from the Past

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Photo credit:  Alastair Segerdal [WBAN bought his collection before he passed away] Shirley “Zebra Girl” Tucker wrote the following:  Recently I read about Grace Casillas being crowned Champion of the WWBA Bantam title.  While I do think that she is deserving of top rating, under myself, I must make it very clear and that as

Paula Trichell had almost made a career of fighting one opponent alone six times which was Louise Loo.  Unfortunately in this era of boxing, there were sparse opponents and many pioneer female boxers would end up having to fight the same opponent many times.  Trichell was from Rohnert Park, California. An article reported that Paula

On February 11, 1979, in Hawthorne, California, the First All-Women Boxing Event took place in the world. It was Elimination Rounds for the World Championships that would be held in July of 1979. WBAN has in our archive the videos of some of the bouts that took place that night.  Here is the following:  Lady

Unknown date at this time:  Graciella Cassillas fights Karen Bennett  

HISTORIC PHOTOS ON WBAN ARCHIVE COLLECTION The Hyatt opened it’s grand ballroom to four women bouts Tuesday evening but fight fans went away disappointed that the Bonnie Prestwood-Karen Bennett World Bantamweight title fight lasted only two rounds. What supposed to be the most entertaining and exciting fight of the evening turned into a second round

In August of 1978, Cathy “Cat” Davis was the first woman to ever make it on the cover of RING MAGAZINE.  Unlike the response the public had over the highly publicized 1996 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED issue of Christy Martin, you would have thought that the world had come to an end. After Davis was featured on

DETROIT, MICHIGAN – May 22, 1978 – On this date, there was a historical exhibition with two female boxers.  Cora Orr Peaches, only 16 years old, is in an exhibition with Katie Graves, 25 years old.   The exhibition took place at the Kern Block marking in Downtown Detroit. Both of the female train at the

Sue Carlson donated her boxing gear to a historical museum:  documendation-of-boxing-license  historical society-collects-boxing-gear -2    historical society-collects-boxing-gear-3 It is Monday, January 23, 1978, and in the Minneapolis Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, history is being made.  Minnesota’s [reported] first professional women’s boxing match is being featured as a preliminary event on an otherwise all male fight card.

WBAN has the video interview of the following transcribed story.   Source: Video tape of a documentary on Cathy “Cat”    Davis—one of the most recognized and controversial women boxers of the  1970’s.    The documentary was about Cathy “Cat” Davis’ boxing career, and it also had many interviews of other persons.     Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier were