Category: Past boxers

Lady Tyger Trimiar: She Had a Dream – by Sue TL Fox

Lady Tyger—She had a dream. . .since the age of 10 years old, she visited the neighborhood gyms and watched fighters spar with each other. She watched boxing on television. One day she told people at the gym that she wanted to be a boxer, and to have a trainer. Lady Tyger remembers that when

Anne “The Lady Warrior” Koenig – Boxer from the late 1990s

Background of Anne Koenig, in her own words – Dated October 19, 1997   At the age of 15, while studying hard as a sophomore at Palm Bay Highschool, I became interested in the Martial arts.  I took up classes at the Family Taekwon-do and Fitness Center in Melbourne, Florida.  Not long after I joined

Women’s boxing attempted on West Coast – 1976

In an exerpt from an Police Gazette, and reprinted in Ring Magazine, Ginger Rogers (not the actress) attempted to get into boxing.   Rogers from Boston knocked out her opponent Peggy  Sipan, of Buffalo, New York, in what was called a clearly “pre-planned fight.”  

1976: Lady Tyger Trimiar to rematch Diane Syverson

On (about) August 12, 1976, Lady Tyger Trimiar rematched with Diane Syverson in a four round bout.  The two returned to the Olympic Auditorium, in Los Angeles, California in a four-round welterweight bout.   We do not have a confirmed results on this at this time. Just two weeks ago, Syverson, of Los Angeles, won a

Unbelievable Media coverage for female boxers in the 1970’s

  As you know, first to go on the running back are his legs and the pitcher’s arm departs and the goalie is betrayed by his nerves.  There may now be reason to dread the first thing to go on the sports columnist is his sense of humor. You see, I quite frankly cannot find

The San Pedro Female Boxers from 1976 with Dee Knuckles

Archived photo of many of the female boxers that were training in San Pedro, California.  The woman next to the boxer with the 44 T-shirt on is Dee Knuckles.  Knuckles got Sue TL Fox and many other female boxers a lot of fights at the time. Copyrighted by WBAN. All Rights Reserved.

Archived Letter Written by pioneer boxer Barbara Buttrick! 1974

WBAN was able to dig up a very old letter that pioneer boxer Barbara Buttrick wrote in September of 1974.  She wrote into the Boxing Illustrated Magazine to Judy Kelly who was handling the female boxing segment on the mag at the time.   Photo of  Barbara Buttrick and Joann Hagen (Buttrick on the right)

Phyliss Kugler featured in “Night and Day ” Mag – 1958

About Kugler – a report by Sue Fox in 2002: “Matchmaker Johnnie Nate stands outside the Armory last Thursday night and tries to figure out why he was denied the rental of the building. Nate had scheduled a nine-bout amateur fight card for the building, but authorities in Indianapolis later cancelled him out. Nate believes it is