(SEPT 14) Las Vegas, Nevada—Undisputed Women’s Welterweight World Champion ‘The First Lady’ Cecilia Braekhus, (34-0-0, 9 KO’s) was honored on Thursday afternoon, September 13 with a presentation of THE RING Magazine’s Women’s #1 Pound-for-Pound Title Belt. The presentation of the first belt of its kind was made by RING Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Doug Fischer in the Media Center
(SEPT 10) On Saturday night, at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano, now 35-1-1 (26KO), of Brooklyn, went for her sixth title, in six weight classes, making history when she fought in a WBO Super Lightweight World Title against Yamila Reynoso. Serrano won the bout by a ten-round unanimous decision, with judges scores
NEW YORK – Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and unified women’s super middleweight Champion Claressa Shields will attempt to become a two-division world champion on Friday, June 22 live on SHOWTIME when she faces unified women’s 154-pound champion Hanna Gabriels for the vacant IBF and WBA Middleweight World Championships at Masonic Temple in Detroit, Mich. The
(JAN 27) In the latest news on the net, with an upcoming amateur boxing event that will take place, news sources report that this year will be the first to include female boxers in the Texas State Golden Gloves Tournament. The event will take place from February 28 to March 3, 2018. The venue is
(JAN 27, 2018) – Associated Press) A boxing official described as “one of Uzbekistan’s leading criminals” by United States authorities has been named interim president of the Olympic sport’s governing body. The International Boxing Federation (AIBA) said its vice-president Gafur Rakhimov was promoted on Saturday after the “unexpected resignation” of interim leader Franco Falcinelli. “Rakhimov
(JAN 20) Today is the first day of the 36th National Men’s and the First National Women’s Boxing Championships that are being held at the WAPDA Sports Complex, in Lahore, Pakistan. The tournament will run from January 20 to 24, 2018. In the first time in history, female boxers are included in this event, with
(JAN 9) The WBAN, one of the most highly-respected organizations in female boxing, has announced that their World Super Middleweight Championship belt will be on the line this Friday, January 12, when two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (4-0, 2 KOs) defends her WBC and IBF titles against undefeated mandatory challenger Tori Nelson (17-0-3,
(NOV 26) Sunday witnessed ten thrilling finals of the 2017 Women’s Youth World Championships in the north-east India city of Guwahati, at which Russia, Kazakhstan, USA and South Korea topped the podium along with the hosts India whose boxers dominated the lighter weight categories. A total of 160 boxers from 31 countries began the week-long
(AUG 30, 2017) WBAN would like to pay a special Tribute to France’s World Champion Angelique Ducehmin, just 26 years old when passed away yesterday. Ducehmin a professional female boxer with a undefeated boxing record of 14-0 (3KO), winning the WBF Featherweight World title on May 12, 2017 when she defeated Ericka Rousseau by a
(AUG 7) While it had been a very wet day, the Boxing-Gods made sure the rain had stopped when the first bell sounded for a big World Boxing Federation (WBF) Championship double-header staged outdoors on a football-pitch in Essen, Germany on Saturday evening, August 5. The sold-out event promoted by Bjoern Sothmann had WBF Womens