(JAN 3) This week WBC Cares Ambassador, Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brooks Army Medical Center in Antonio, Texas. This is where soldiers come to be hospitalized in the United States, especially burn victims. There are some building there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a hotel where Soldiers’ families
(NOV 29) This week WBAN got an opportunity to catch up with female boxer Alesia Graf, who will be fighting in December. She talks about this upcoming bout, along with the sport and other tidbits of updates and thoughts about the sport! TL Fox: Alesia, WBAN has been told that you have an upcoming fight
(NOV 27) At the end, Hector Camacho’s last fight was stopped. Not by a referee inside the ropes in a major boxing venue, where, during many “big fight” nights of the last two decades of the previous century, Camacho was a fixture, but by his family, surrounding his bed, in the Centro Medico trauma center in
(NOV 24) Just in…..Tonight Shondell Alfred was supposed to fight Zulina Munoz for a WBC title—but little did she know, she was pregnant with child! The WBC wrote the following: “Shondell Alfred was planning, working, hoping for the conception of a new boxing era, in her quest to win the WBC super flyweight title. Instead she’s
(NOV 24) At a press conference earlier this week, Mexican female fighter Zulina “La Loba” Munoz said she is close to fulfill her dream of winning the vacant WBC super flyweight world crown against the Guyanese Shondell Alfred (that will take place tonight) t in Mexico City. “I’m going to fulfill my dream. I have
(NOV 19) I remember the first time someone asked me why I wrote about boxing: “Ain’t no good stories in this sport,” a well worn boxing “lifer” declared, in a well worn gym, close by the train station, on North Charles Street in Baltimore, “all those stories end up bad.” Over the years, I found that
(NOV 19) On Saturday, the “Ring Telmex” grantees, Zulina Muñoz, Daniel Estrada and Carlos Cuadras, fulfill the requirement of official weighing at seven days before their championship fights, as established by the rules of the WBC. This great boxing feature, which has been called “Función de Gala de Ring Telmex”, will take place next Saturday November
(NOV 12) Tonight (Japan’s Time Zone) at Korakuen Hall, in Tokyo, Japan, Naoko Yamaguchi won a 10-round unanimous decision over Judith Rodriguez from Mexico. Yamaguchi defended her WBA super flyweight (115lb) title. The final judges score were 97-93,98-92,98-92, but in fact it was close fight. In the semi-main event, Noriko Tsunoda won a 8-round unanimous
(NOV 6) As most who follow WBAN know, we enjoy keeping up with what the female boxers are doing not only in the ring, but outside the ring. We would like to congratulate Kelsey Jeffries, a multi-world boxing champion and role model in the sport for a recent accomplishment “outside of the ring” that she
(NOV 6) (Source/Press Release) Former 4-time world champion, Carina “La Reina” Moreno (22-5, 6 KOs) has signed a contract to fight WBA Flyweight champion, Susi Kentikian (29-1, 16 KOs) on December 1, 2012. The 10-round championship bout will take place in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Once considered a pound for pound female champion, Moreno looks to regain he status as one