(AUGUST 21, 2022) Yes, I understand folks that we at times want to bury the true history of the sport—especially when “today’s” promoters want so badly to claim a “History-first”. Please for those doing that, don’t erase the blood, sweat, and tears of those before today’s boxers. I remember all too well when a fighter claimed
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
August 17, 1987 – by Paul Sullivan (posted for historic purposes only. Full copyrights of Chicago Tribune: A half hour after the battering, the losing fighter stood outside the office in the trendy Near North Side health club, a check for $1,200 in one hand and a small towel filled with ice in the other. Placing
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
Laurie “Thunderbolt” Holt of the Waterville Boxing Club is the new women’s super featherweight champion of the world. She won the crown with a unanimous 15-round decision lover Cora “White Sugar” Webber of Los Angeles in a fight that ended early Tuesday morning in Denver, Colorado. The International Women’s Boxing Association title fight was scored
Laurie Holt’s professional boxing career to date, consists of four fights against the same opponent–not quite the makings of a champion. But consider the opponent. Holt’s only foe has been Cheryl Brown, the world’s fourth-ranked women’s featherweight. Prior to a week ago, Holt, 20, of Waterville had lost three straight. But her last time out
In a flash from the past on March 24, 1984, women’s bout that was scheduled for ten rounds at the Kennebec Valley Vocational Technical Institute, in Waterville, Maine, Laurie Ann Holt, 126 lbs., of Waterville, won a close majority decision over Cheryl Brown, 127 lbs., of Winslow, Maine. With the fighter pool being very limited
November 10, 1981 – A nun that loved to box: What a cool story that I found in our WBAN Archive collection. As most of you are seeing I am now digging into the huge (massive) collection of women’s boxing that I have accumulated over 22 years. In this story it states the following. “What
The months since your editor’s visit to Grenoble have brought quite a change in membership of the Club, and, sad to say, most of the girls featured in last issue’s article are no longer attending. Undoubtedly the most dramatic events were very fierce competitive fights involving the two Andujar sisters, lsabelle (aged 16) and Martine (aged 11). The
Aileen Eaton a famous boxing promoter who promoted many events at the Olympic Auditorium. She promoted the first all-female boxing card in Los Angeles, California in 1979.