NATIVES By “Michelle Genz” /April 12, 1998 – The Miami Herald – It’s nearly impossible to imagine former women’s boxing champion Barbara Buttrick with a bloody nose, harder still to imagine the diminutive English-accented 68-year-old bookkeeper bloodying someone else’s. But as “The Mighty Atom of the Ring,” she not only bloodied but broke three noses
Graciela Cassillas, born in Los Angeles, California, one of the top female boxers and Martial Artists in the sport that had over 30 pro fights, was one of the true talents that fought in the late 1970’s – 1980’s. She retired from competition in 1986 having earned the WKA and IWBA Bantamweight championship. Cassillas said
(DEC 19) Katie Taylor winning Olympic gold in the ExCeL Arena has been voted Ireland’s most iconic sporting moment of 2012 by a massive 75% of Irish people, according to Pembroke Communications’ 2012 Sports Sentiment Index (SSI). The SSI is a comprehensive 1,000 person nationally representative survey that examines the attitudes of Irish people towards sport, their sporting heroes, participation levels,
(DEC 14) (Source/WBC) Mexican female boxing star Mariana “Barbie” Juarez and Japan’s Tenkai Tsunami, will take center stage at the Arena Coliseo in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on Saturday, December 15 for a clash of former world champions to be featured on FOX Deportes in the United States. In addition, Bruno “Tiburon” Sandoval faces a tough
(NOV 24) Just in…..Tonight Shondell Alfred was supposed to fight Zulina Munoz for a WBC title—but little did she know, she was pregnant with child! The WBC wrote the following: “Shondell Alfred was planning, working, hoping for the conception of a new boxing era, in her quest to win the WBC super flyweight title. Instead she’s
(NOV 19) I remember the first time someone asked me why I wrote about boxing: “Ain’t no good stories in this sport,” a well worn boxing “lifer” declared, in a well worn gym, close by the train station, on North Charles Street in Baltimore, “all those stories end up bad.” Over the years, I found that
Flash from the Past: Borden pulled no punches in her boxing role copyrights by Hugh Townsend Gloria Borden’s love for boxing began before she even started attending New Glasgow’s Temperance Street School in the 1940s. Among her first childhood recollections were the nights at home on Vale Road when her parents and any number of
(APR 8) On April 1, 2011, in Berlin, Germany, Photojournalist Uwe Betker covered the boxing event that had the tragic shooting of female boxer World Champion Rola El Halabi. She was just about to go into the ring to fight for an IBF championship bout, when her stepfather shot her in the dressing room. I
(JAN 12, 2009) Yesterday in Aliwal North, world featherweight boxing champion, Mdantsane-born Ludumo Galada, 26 years old, was killed in a car accident. Galada was driving a Toyota Tazz, and was traveling from Johannesburg when the accident took place. The local news sources said that as of now the details of the accident are sketchy
(JAN 11, 2009) European Champion Rola El-Halabi, of Ulm, was in Magdeburg December 9-28, where she had the opportunity to spar with Esther Schouten from Holland. The former World Champion Schouten made intensive preparation for her World Championship fight against Ina Menzer. Rola had a busy two weeks in hard sparring, to tune Shouten for