Category: Historical

Last Televised Boxing Event on HBO featuring three female bouts on card

At the StubHub Center, Carson, California, USA –In the main event, Cecilia Braekhus, 146¾, won a ten-round unanimous decision over Aleksandra Magdziak Lopes, 146½. Braekhus was defending her IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC, and WBO Welterweight titles. In a second bout, Claressa Shields, 159¼, won a ten-round unanimous decision over Femke Hermans, 157. Shields was defending

Stephanie Dobbs Makes It in the Guinness Book of World Records!

WBAN was notified that Stephanie Dobbs, has been accepted in the Guinness Book of World Records for the “Most professional boxing bouts [female].” Dobbs received a beautiful certificate to commemorate her achievement. Ralph Hannah, of the Records Management Team, with the Guinness World Records said in a letter to Dobbs, “We are pleased to confirm