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Gloves, Not Guns, For This ‘Frisco Kid’: Louise Loo, 1980s Flyweight Contender

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Gloves, Not Guns, For This ‘Frisco Kid’: Louise Loo, 1980s Flyweight Contender

Sue TL Fox March 7, 2025

Written by Christopher Benedict Known as ‘The Frisco Kid’ after the City by the Bay which was...

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With Only One Life to Live, Amy Levitt Chose Boxing Over Acting

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With Only One Life to Live, Amy Levitt Chose Boxing Over Acting

Sue TL Fox March 3, 2025

Written by Christopher Benedict Boxing and show business have long gone hand in hand. In many ways,...

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Shirley ‘Zebra Girl’ Tucker: A Boxing Pioneer of a Different Stripe

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Shirley ‘Zebra Girl’ Tucker: A Boxing Pioneer of a Different Stripe

Sue TL Fox February 28, 2025

Written by Christopher Benedict “The majority of women in professional boxing is in it for the money....

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Lydia Bayardo: The 70s Slugger They Called Squeaky

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Lydia Bayardo: The 70s Slugger They Called Squeaky

Sue TL Fox February 27, 2025

Written by Christopher Benedict By the time she turned eighteen, Lydia Bayardo had earned the hard-won reputation...

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The International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame is made a Proclamation Day on April 5, 2025 by Mayor of the City of Las Vegas!

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The International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame is made a Proclamation Day on April 5, 2025 by Mayor of the City of Las Vegas!

Sue TL Fox February 27, 2025

LAS VEGAS, NV [February 27, 2025]  In an exciting announcement for boxing enthusiasts and advocates of women’s...

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Barnstorming Through Council Bluffs: JoAnn Hagen Takes On Pat Emerick and Wrestler Bev Lehmer Over Thanksgiving Week 1949

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Barnstorming Through Council Bluffs: JoAnn Hagen Takes On Pat Emerick and Wrestler Bev Lehmer Over Thanksgiving Week 1949

Sue TL Fox February 20, 2025

Article by Christopher Benedict The Bendix plant that opened in South Bend, Indiana in 1923 quickly established...

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Barbara Buttrick and Phyllis Kugler Fight in First Sanctioned Women’s Championship Match Deep in the Heart of Texas

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Barbara Buttrick and Phyllis Kugler Fight in First Sanctioned Women’s Championship Match Deep in the Heart of Texas

Sue TL Fox February 18, 2025

Written by Christopher Benedict “Wow—Lookie Here For The First Time In Texas” screamed the bold-type print on the...

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Presumption, or the Fate of Polly Fairclough

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Presumption, or the Fate of Polly Fairclough

Sue TL Fox February 7, 2025

written by:  Christopher Benedict (An elderly Polly with heavyweight contender Jack Doyle) As an esteemed pioneer of...

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Nancy Thompson’s Boxing Career May Not Have Been a Hollywood Dream, But it Was Far From a Nightmare

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Nancy Thompson’s Boxing Career May Not Have Been a Hollywood Dream, But it Was Far From a Nightmare

Sue TL Fox February 2, 2025

Written by Christopher Benedict “Whatever you do,” Nancy Thompson famously warns her boyfriend Glen in A Nightmare on...

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Who Better Than a Woman? Boxing Pioneer Belle Martell: First Female Promoter, Ring Announcer, Timekeeper, and Referee

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Who Better Than a Woman? Boxing Pioneer Belle Martell: First Female Promoter, Ring Announcer, Timekeeper, and Referee

Sue TL Fox January 30, 2025

Written by:  Christopher Benedict The advent of talkies in the late 1920s not only irreversibly altered the...

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