The Coal Miner’s daughter must have been more naughty than nice in 1998. How else to explain Sumya Anani’s delivery of a lump of early Christmas coal to Christy Martin’s holiday celebration? When the Kansas City native stunned the women’s boxing world with her upset win December 18, it was the kind of fight that
In this season of giving thanks, there is one troubling trend that is getting a “no thanks” from me and many fans of women’s boxing–Mismatches! The most flagrant setback for the sport came across the Atlantic one day before Thanksgiving, and it redefined the word “turkey.” Jane Couch, who has been involved in some very
The fight between Lucia Rijker and Marcela Acuna had a very familiar ring to it, and I not talking about a boxing ring. Just when I thought that women boxing was making headway—in this fight and Acuna’s last fight with Martin, I see some similarities that emulate the the 70’s. [photo: by Mary Ann Owen]
In the month of September of 1996, after re-entering the sport to get in shape to run the 5K in a Race for the Cure event, I learned that women’s boxing was making another comeback. After learning about Christy Martin and Gogarty, and searching the net to only find there was virtually nothing on the
Christy Martin vs. Diedre Gogarty – The Fight that lit the sport on Fire! On March 16, 1996, on a Showtime televised card, Christy Martin and Diedre Gogarty set the sport on fire when they outshown the Mike Tyson mainliner. Martin won the six-rounder by a unanimous decision. This WAS the defining fight that lit the
(AUGUST 21, 2022) Yes, I understand folks that we at times want to bury the true history of the sport—especially when “today’s” promoters want so badly to claim a “History-first”. Please for those doing that, don’t erase the blood, sweat, and tears of those before today’s boxers. I remember all too well when a fighter claimed
An interesting historical article that was dated in 1987, when President Jose Sulaiman was not for women boxers fighting in the sport. WBC President Sulaiman made a statement in sports news with the VC cycle and quoting the following: ”The world boxing Council Friday say that it strongly opposes professional boxing for women and all
Laurie “Thunderbolt” Holt of the Waterville Boxing Club is the new women’s super featherweight champion of the world. She won the crown with a unanimous 15-round decision lover Cora “White Sugar” Webber of Los Angeles in a fight that ended early Tuesday morning in Denver, Colorado. The International Women’s Boxing Association title fight was scored
I recently paid a visit to the Foyer Club De Grenoble. Before doing so I had written to M. Chabut, who runs the club, asking if I could call on him and see the girls in training, to which he readily agreed. Imagine my surprise on arrival to find that he had arranged a small tournament for
Laurie Holt’s professional boxing career to date, consists of four fights against the same opponent–not quite the makings of a champion. But consider the opponent. Holt’s only foe has been Cheryl Brown, the world’s fourth-ranked women’s featherweight. Prior to a week ago, Holt, 20, of Waterville had lost three straight. But her last time out