It has certainly been a rocky start to the year with many events being postponed and pushed back – despite the difficult start through March and April however many organisers were able to turn things around quickly. Horse racing had been amongst the first to get things kickstarted again. This came following the cancellation of
(JULY 15) Ireland’s boxers have claimed hundreds of medals in all competitions from the Olympic Games to the European Schools Championships. Please scroll down for all-time medal haul. OLYMPIC GAMES Helsinki 1952 54kg John McNally Silver Melbourne 1956 67kg Fred Tiedt Silver 51kg John Caldwell Bronze 54kg Freddie Gilroy Bronze 60kg Tony Byrne Bronze Tokyo 1964
(MAR 4, 2020) Extraordinary AIBA Congress, scheduled in Budapest on March, is postponed for 3-month period because of Coronavirus outbreak. AIBA Executive Committee took this decision by e-mail vote due to the force majeure. AIBA National Federations are invited to attend an Extraordinary AIBA Congress on June 20th, 2020 in Budapest, Hungary. The mandate of
(FEB 22) The event was moved to March 27, 2021 in Las Vegas. For Tickets: www.iwbhf.com: This year marks our seventh anniversary since our inaugural International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF) Induction Ceremony on July 10, 2014, held in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. On January 10, 2014, we first announced the inception of the IWBHF
Team USA entered the final day of the 2019 Silesian Women’s Championships in Gliwice, Poland with 10 boxers looking for gold, and all 10 dominated their opponents for a clean Team USA sweep. Kayla Gomez (El Paso, Texas) started the day with her second referee stopped contest of her international debut over Poland’s Dorota Wawszcyky to
The annual seminal event in the sport of Women’s boxing, the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame induction, will be held on August 30 at the Double Tree Hotel in Brisbane, CA (approximately ten miles north of San Francisco). The 2019 ceremony/dinner, the sixth edition of a celebration of the sport of Women’s boxing, it’s
(JUNE 28) TICKETS are available for sale for the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame. We have also DISCOUNT tickets for who qualify for those tickets in the event. Come and enjoy meeting a lot of these great world champions and more! We have three great guest speakers at the event. CHRISTY MARTIN, JILL DIAMOND,
PORTLAND, OR – (March 16, 2019) This week the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame [IWBHF] finalized the venue for the upcoming 2019 Banquet/Induction Ceremony, that marks our sixth year when the organization was founded in 2014. The prestigious event will take place on Friday, August 30, 2019, at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, located
PORTLAND, OR – (January 27, 2019) WBAN is proud to announce the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF), Class of 2019. This sixth annual induction represents a record breaking number of honorees in the history of this signal institution which has recognized and honored those individuals who have, over the history of the sport
NEW YORK – Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and unified women’s super middleweight Champion Claressa Shields will attempt to become a two-division world champion on Friday, June 22 live on SHOWTIME when she faces unified women’s 154-pound champion Hanna Gabriels for the vacant IBF and WBA Middleweight World Championships at Masonic Temple in Detroit, Mich. The