Category: WBAN Coverage

Chevelle Hallback: “The Right Way” by Bernie McCoy

(JAN 6) So we come to another end-of-year award season in the sport of Women’s boxing; a search for the high points in a rather desultory twelve months in a sport that desperately needs to be more concerned with it’s future than it’s past. Shortly after exchanging holiday wishes on the first day of the

The Women Come to New Mexico… Looking for History By Bernie McCoy

(JUNE 10) This is the age of hyperbole, exaggeration has become the norm. One of the adjectives orally chucked about, with abandon, today, is “historic.” It is often applied to an event that, at the time it occurs, seems to have secured it’s place in the pantheon of never-to-be-forgotten occurrences. Remember the score of the

All Women’s Card in Japan Makes History First

(MAY 10) Last night in front of a sold out crowd at the at the  Korakuen Hall, in Tokyo, Japan, in what has been considered the first time the Japan Boxing Commission recognized women’s boxing this year, there was 10 women’s bouts on this card.  [If anyone has photos, more info on this card, email

Michigan: Laila Ali vs. Kendra Lenhart 

The event was surrounded by potential controversy, mainly due to Tyson’s and Golota’s past tarnished reputations with previous fights with others. Both fighters labeled, “The Bad Boys of Boxing” had a list of reasons for having such a name!  Tyson hitting Norris after the bell, biting Holyfield’s ear and trying to continue to hit one

Fight Report: Christy Martin vs. Diedre Gogarty

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