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  Dallas Malloy and the ACLU files a lawsuit against USA boxing. USA boxing settles and lifts the ban prohibiting women from boxing.

Gail Grandchamp wins an eight-year legal battle for the right to fight. The judge rules that it is illegal to deny someone the right to fight based on their gender

Sweden becomes the first country to lift a ban on women’s amateur boxing.

Women’s Boxing Ratings in September of 1981.  Source/WBB Glove

Women’s Boxing World Ratings – July 1, 1980 – Source:  WBB Glove Magazine

A successful lawsuit brought by Shirley Tucker and the ACLU forces California to change their regulations that had limited women boxers to no more than four rounds.

HISTORIC PHOTOS ON WBAN ARCHIVE COLLECTION The Hyatt opened it’s grand ballroom to four women bouts Tuesday evening but fight fans went away disappointed that the Bonnie Prestwood-Karen Bennett World Bantamweight title fight lasted only two rounds. What supposed to be the most entertaining and exciting fight of the evening turned into a second round

  SQUEAKY BAYARDO, a 127-pound featherweight fought against Cora Webber on the first all-female boxing card in Hawthorne, California on 2/11/79.   The fight ended in a draw.  The crowd roared as these two fighters went head to heard with each other. Some of the highlights of Bayardo’s career her longetivity in women’s boxing,  she was

The document that we will share is on Aileen Eaton.  The International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame inducted Eaton when she was posthumous.  This is for historical purposes only.  Copyrights:  WomenSports by Jackie Lapin WBAN HAS THE ARTICLE IN THE WBAN ARCHIVE COLLECTION  

Tonawanda TKO’s her male opponent in kickboxing vs. Boxing -1975 In 1975, Jackie Tonawanda made her mark in history at the MadisonSquareGarden, in New York, when she took on a Kickboxer Larry Rodania. Tonawanda KO’d Rodania in the second round. Tonawanda believed that doing this exhibition, she would gain her much needed New York boxing