(Information provided by newspaper articles and interview with Bill Dickson. I interviewed Dickson in October of 1999. Sue TL Fox) Caroline Svendsen, a 34-year old woman, who decided to become a boxer, was REPORTED to have been the first woman in the United States to receive a boxing license. WBAN has since uncovered new evidence in
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
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
Copyrighted Photo: WBAN purchased the copyrights to photo of Shirley Tucker –All Rights Reserved. On Tuesday night, December 6, 1977, at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe Hotel, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, there was a professional boxing card, featuring four female bouts on the card. This was a history-first for female boxing in the state of Nevada.
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.”
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
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
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.
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)
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