A midst tremendous controversy, the first women’s professional boxing bout in Connecticut took place on Saturday, January 10, 1976. In order to give you a firsthand report on the bout, Jo and Jeff Bray were at ringside. The fight was between Gwen Gemini of Springfield, Massachusetts, 23 years old, 152 lbs., her fourth fight, and
MARION BERMUDEZ, A NATIONAL KARATE CHAMPION, COMPETED AGAINST MEN IN THAT SPORT, SHE ENTERED THE A.A.U. PHOENIX GOLDEN GLOVES, BEAT HER FIRST MALE OPPONENT! MARION BERMUDEZ caused headlines on March 28, 1975, when she entered a A.A.U. Arizona Golden Gloves Competition, and proceeded to beat her first opponent. Two of the Phoenix Amateur Athletic
Copyrighted photo/magazine – Boxing Illustrated Magazine October 1973 In the Boxing Illustrated Magazine that was definitely ahead of it’s time, where they not only covered mens’ boxing, but they also covered a huge variety of others in the sport from female boxers who were amateurs, to the women in the past who tried their hand
Full Copyrights: San Antonio Express – October 7, 1957 – English Girl Boxer in Classy Ring Drill “Opens Eyes in Workout for the First Offical Women’s World Championship”.
Photo credit: Courtesy from the Kugler Family when she was inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame in July of 2015 (posthumous) “Phyllis Kugler posthumously was inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame in 2015. her whole family attended the event in honor of Kugler, and her granddaugther displayed her boxing
When first coming across an article dated December 3, 1955, Page 5 of the Oxnard Press Courier, in Oxnard, California, the title of this article was “Female Boxing Expert to Try for $64,000 Knockout. But they were not talking about a person that was an “expert” in Female Boxing, but a tad bit of boxing
Full Copyrights: Women’s Titlists, Circa 1949 The Press-Courier – April 12, 1972, page 8 In an article published on April 12, 1972, a woman with 10 children talks about her past boxing experience and claim that she was a former boxing champion from a November 1949 fight. Her name was Mrs. Lancaster, of Lancaster, Tennessee.
Boxing was introduced at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis. Women’s boxing was a displayed event at the third Olympic games. However, women’s boxing didn’t strike root in the Olympics, while men’s debutants – boxing and freestyle wrestling also having their debut at the St. Louis Games, survived until the present day. Debuts and
Written By Christopher Benedict “I like to fight,” exclaimed Hattie Stewart, whose portrait graced a full page of the November 11, 1887 edition of the Police Gazette. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Stewart left little room for doubt from an early age that it was not her lot in life to be a wallflower or