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The following (taken from the Original document)  press release is in the WBAN Historical Data Collection:  Double Main Boxing at Hyatt Lake Tahoe The Program on Wednesday, May 5, 1976, at 8:15 p.m will open with a four round heavyweight fight featuring Pete Zeibell and Marlen Johnson.  Zeibell, Formerly of Chicago, now a resident of

The year was 1976….Pat Pineda was the first to obtain a boxing license in the state of California.  Pat had previously fought Teresa Kibby in March of 1976, fighting with her in a four-rounder at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel, in Lake Tahoe (stateline), Nevada, promoted by the Father of Female Boxing, promoter Bill Dickson.  Kibby

On Thursday, February 26, 1976, in Portland, Maine, Lady Tyger Trimiar fought Margie “KO” Dunson.  According to the Newport (R.I.) Daily News, dated February 27, 1976, Friday, they reported the following.  “For Marian Trimiar, who is known in the ring as “Tyger or “Black Kojak”, 22 years old, defeated Dunson, 25 years old,  by a

On Thursday, February 27, 1976, in Portland, Maine, there were two female bouts on the card.  In an EXHIBITION BOUT, CATHY “CAT” DAVIS fought GWEN GEMINI.  They called the fight a DRAW—but it was an exhibition and as you can see this fight has not been documented as a fight against DAVIS as a sanctioned bout

A midst tremendous controversy, the first women’s professional boxing bout in Connecticut took place on Saturday, January 10, 1976.  In order to give you a firsthand report on the bout, Jo and Jeff Bray were at ringside.   The fight was between Gwen Gemini of Springfield, Massachusetts, 23 years old, 152 lbs., her fourth fight, and

MARION BERMUDEZ, A NATIONAL KARATE CHAMPION, COMPETED AGAINST MEN IN THAT SPORT, SHE ENTERED THE  A.A.U. PHOENIX GOLDEN GLOVES, BEAT HER FIRST MALE OPPONENT!    MARION BERMUDEZ caused headlines on March 28, 1975,  when she entered a A.A.U. Arizona Golden Gloves Competition, and proceeded to     beat her first opponent.   Two of the Phoenix Amateur Athletic

For the Cause of Women boxers – Boxing Illustrated: December 1974 Issue Who Would Have thought that close to 38 years ago Boxing Illustrated Magazine would have run an ad to find out how the public felt about women boxers participating in the Olympics It is becoming more and more apparent there is a growing

Copyrighted photo/magazine – Boxing Illustrated Magazine October 1973 In the Boxing Illustrated Magazine that was definitely ahead of it’s time, where they not only covered mens’ boxing, but they also covered a huge variety of others in the sport from female boxers who were amateurs, to the women in the past who tried their hand