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
(APR 8) On April 1, 2011, in Berlin, Germany, Photojournalist Uwe Betker covered the boxing event that had the tragic shooting of female boxer World Champion Rola El Halabi. She was just about to go into the ring to fight for an IBF championship bout, when her stepfather shot her in the dressing room. I
(MAR 15) On August 15, 2006, WBAN ran a story about a former WBAN photographer Dale Hausner, who provided coverage for WBAN with photographs of events that took place in Arizona. At this time in 2006, Hausner was arrested, along with a roommate, in Arizona, where he was facing allegations of murders (serial murderer), and
WBAN was notified that Stephanie Dobbs, has been accepted in the Guinness Book of World Records for the “Most professional boxing bouts [female].” Dobbs received a beautiful certificate to commemorate her achievement. Ralph Hannah, of the Records Management Team, with the Guinness World Records said in a letter to Dobbs, “We are pleased to confirm
(JULY 15) This week WBAN conducted an interview with Lucia Rijker about her corporation, Rijker Striker Inc., she has developed that incorporates all of her talents and knowledge that she has gained throughout the last 26 years of competing in and outside the ring. TL Fox: You started Rijker Striker, Inc. in about February of
(JUNE 9) In television programming it’s known as a “lead-in:” a strong show generating a big audience and “leading” that audience to the following show or, in the case of TV’s most famous lead-in, “The Cosby Show,” leading the audience to an entire Thursday night of viewing. “It’s a technique that has also been used,
(NOV 17) David Selwyn is a New York boxing manager and, like the best of that breed, he keeps the interests of his fighters at the head of his “things to do” list. Selwyn is not, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, a scholar of the Chinese language, but he recently invoked one of those
World lightweight champion Katie Taylor has been named as the Irish Times/Vhi Sportswoman of the month recipient for October. Taylor, from the St Fergal’s club in Bray, claimed her third European title on the trot last month just under a year after she won her 60Kg World title in New Delhi, India. The 21 year old
(JAN 9, 2007) Tonight in Bergamo, Italy, there was a European (EBU) flyweight Title fight between Simona Galassi, 111½, and Nadia Hockmi, 111¾. The fight was the main event of the show, which was televised on Eurosport. What was first called a win for Galassi, has now been called a draw, and the EBU European
(DEC 31, 2005) WBAN has listed “some” of the most outrageous things that went on in the sport for 2005. It would be impossible to list them all-but here are some of our top picks! Here you go…. “DID YOU GET TIRED OF HEARING THE WORDS MILLION DOLLAR BABY”? THE MOST OVER USED PHRASE IN