Graciela Cassillas, born in Los Angeles, California, one of the top female boxers and Martial Artists in the sport that had over 30 pro fights, was one of the true talents that fought in the late 1970’s – 1980’s. She retired from competition in 1986 having earned the WKA and IWBA Bantamweight championship. Cassillas said
(DEC 19) Katie Taylor winning Olympic gold in the ExCeL Arena has been voted Ireland’s most iconic sporting moment of 2012 by a massive 75% of Irish people, according to Pembroke Communications’ 2012 Sports Sentiment Index (SSI). The SSI is a comprehensive 1,000 person nationally representative survey that examines the attitudes of Irish people towards sport, their sporting heroes, participation levels,
(DEC 14) (Source/WBC) Mexican female boxing star Mariana “Barbie” Juarez and Japan’s Tenkai Tsunami, will take center stage at the Arena Coliseo in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico on Saturday, December 15 for a clash of former world champions to be featured on FOX Deportes in the United States. In addition, Bruno “Tiburon” Sandoval faces a tough
On June 15 Holly Holm out-pointed Anne Sophie Mathis over ten rounds in Albuquerque, NM, reversing a seventh round TKO win by Mathis six months earlier in the same New Mexico venue. The two bouts were landmarks in the sport of Women’s boxing as they matched fighters who many in the sport consider the two
The Olympic Games begin in a few weeks and during this quadrennial event the sport of Women’s boxing is making a historic debut. Much has been written about what the debut of female boxers in the 2012 Games will mean to the sport; what impact the Games will have on the future of female boxing,
Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan, until they get hit.” As I was watching a serviceable tape of Friday’s ten round WBAN, IBA, WBF female welterweight title fight between Holly Holm and Anne Sophie Mathis from Albuquerque, NM, it appeared that Holm’s team had devised a plan that was a brief variation of
It had been 17 months since I last walked down Weirfield St. in Brooklyn and I was heading for the same place, Kidz Fitness Gym. The same imposing sentinel was at the front entrance, Jordan Maldonado, surveying his domain on this unseasonably warm March morning and, as always, loaded to overflow with boxing talk, most
(FEB 2) I have been covering women’s boxing since 1998 on the net, and throughout the years I have helped, assisted, or however you want to label it, a variety of promoters in the sport. There have been “many” who have walked within my path of life in relation to women’s boxing. I cannot tell
(JAN 18 ) On January 14, 2012, at the Coliseo Olimpico de la UG, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, there was a 10-round WBF world title fight scheduled that featured Irma Sanchez vs. Fahpratan Looksaikongdin. Fahpratan definitely filled the bill for an “easy” win for a WBF Flyweight title shot for Sanchez. Sanchez stopped Fahpratan in the
Flash from the Past: Borden pulled no punches in her boxing role copyrights by Hugh Townsend Gloria Borden’s love for boxing began before she even started attending New Glasgow’s Temperance Street School in the 1940s. Among her first childhood recollections were the nights at home on Vale Road when her parents and any number of