Lou DiBella is an American boxing promoter, television and film producer, has been a long time supporter of women’s boxing. Through his famous promotion of Broadway Boxing shows in and around New York City, the president of DiBella Entertainment promoted such fighters as Sonya Lamonakis, Keisha “Fire” McCleod, Jessica Camera, Hanna Gabriels, Cherneka Johnson, Alicia
(AUGUST 25) 5’7″ Super Bantamweight Ramla Ali born in Mogadishu, Somalia, recently made a history-first along with her opponent Crystal Garcia Nova, when they fought at the Jeddah Superdome, in Saudi Arabia in a scheduled eight-round bout. The fight did not last too long when in the first round (1:05) Ramla won by a KO. Ali
(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
(AUG 15) In an exciting upcoming event for women’s boxing there will be an All-Female card that will take place at the O2 Arena, Greenwich, in London, England, on September 10, 2022. This card is being mis-represented by the news media that this is a “History-First”. It is NOT. The first all-female card to take
International Working Group on Women and Sport calls for more to be done to drive global gender equality. Key figures from sport, media and politics have gathered to celebrate the success of women’s sport at the Commonwealth Games at a special event at New Zealand House. The event, staged in partnership with the International Working Group
(AUG 5, 2022) Many of you may not be aware of this—but Bob Arum of Top Rank tried to offer some of us Pioneer female boxers a one-year boxing contract of three fights in 1977…..WBAN would like to share this rare document with the boxing community. Documents have been moved to the WBAN Archive Collection. The
(JULY 13) The International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF) is happy to announce the latest addition to our event that takes place on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at the Orleans Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. We have quite a line-up thus far for our IWBHF Induction Ceremony that is definitely a “Don’t Miss
WBAN has only one question: Why in the world is this a world title fight? On Saturday night, June 4, 2022, at the Ulrich-Pfeiffer-Halle, Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Ema Kozin, 21-1-1, is fighting Szilvia Szabados, 18-18-0 for a vacant WBF Super Welterweight title. (According to online source) Kozin fought in her last fight the likes of
We have updated Women Boxing Archive Network (WBAN) with announcing that we have now been on the Internet 24 plus years, going live in May of 1998. Before talking about the roots of WBAN, I first want to thank everyone from photographers, writers, boxers, managers, promoters, matchmakers and more for helping me to accomplish having
The Official Draw confirmed that 310 boxers from 73 countries are attending the 12th edition of the IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships which is taking place in Istanbul, Turkey. The 7th Qinhuangdao edition in 2012 was the previous record-holder with the participation of 305 boxers from 70 nations, therefore, the Istanbul event breaks the previous achievement. Several