(AUG 10) As we revealed earlier this week, Edenderry in County Offaly, Ireland will host an International Female Boxing sparring camp 22nd /29th August and we can now bring the sensational news that Team India’s 22 woman squad will include the famous 5 time World champion Mary Kom, the only woman apart from our own
(AUG 10) Nora Daigle, former pro Canadian boxer who competed from 1995-2000 and who currently lives in Ottawa came to visit Toronto’s Shape Your Life boxing program this week. Shape Your Life (SYL) [https://shapeyourlifeboxing.com] is a free, non-contact boxing program for women-identified boxers who have experienced violence. Shape Your Life (SYL) started in 2007 and
(AUG 8) LAS VEGAS – – On September 16th, on the morning of boxing’s next mega-fight, Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennady Golovkin, boxing’s “Raging Babes” will gather at Mandalay Bay to celebrate and honor WBC Cares Chair and Journalist Jill Diamond at the Raging Babe Brunch, dubbed “Shine Bright.” Diamond joins an exclusive group of women
(AUG 7) While it had been a very wet day, the Boxing-Gods made sure the rain had stopped when the first bell sounded for a big World Boxing Federation (WBF) Championship double-header staged outdoors on a football-pitch in Essen, Germany on Saturday evening, August 5. The sold-out event promoted by Bjoern Sothmann had WBF Womens
(AUGUST 7) A pretty good weekend for Irish women boxers in the first major women’s tournament in Europe this year. No Katie Taylor this year of course as she is now a Pro but the young Irish team has done well so far now that we’ve reached the Quarter-final stage of the EUBC European Union
Source/PR -Photo Credit: Courtesy – (AUG 6) QUINCY, Mass. – Former New England welterweight champion Derek “The Surgeon” Silveira defeated former world title challenger Michael “Cold Blood” Clark last night (Sat., Aug. 5) in the “Fight Night at the Bay” main event, presented by Granite Chin Promotions, at Marina Bay Sportplex in Quincy, Massachusetts. Silveira (12-1,
Source/PR Photo credit: Stephanie Trapp/SHOWTIME – (AUG 6) In a dominating and emphatic performance, hometown favorite Claressa Shields captured the WBC and IBF Super Middleweight World Championships in just her fourth professional fight Friday night on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME at MGM Grand Detroit. The 22-year-old Shields (4-0, 2 KOs) of Flint, Mich.
(AUG 5) This week I had a great opportunity to attend the National Night Out, that took place on August 1st in Longview, Washington. In particular I attended the event to meet up with boxing coach and who started the Highlands Neighborhood Association (HNA) Lions Den Boxing gym, Juan Rodriguez, who invited WBAN to be
(AUG 3) LAS VEGAS – Former world champions Shawn Porter and Layla McCarter were chosen as Nevada Men’s and Women’s Pro Boxers of the Year, respectively, and will be honored by the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame at a gala induction ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 12 at Caesars Palace. Michelle Corrales-Lewis, the Hall’s CEO, also
(JULY 30) Katie Taylor, Ireland’s Gold Medallist from the 2012 Olympics in London, and 5 times AIBA World Champion, duly won her first ever Pro bout in the United States as she proved (as expected) much too strong for the gallant Texan, 22 years old Jasmine Clarkson when the two clashed on Saturday night at