The Coal Miner’s daughter must have been more naughty than nice in 1998. How else to explain Sumya Anani’s delivery of a lump of early Christmas coal to Christy Martin’s holiday celebration? When the Kansas City native stunned the women’s boxing world with her upset win December 18, it was the kind of fight that
In this season of giving thanks, there is one troubling trend that is getting a “no thanks” from me and many fans of women’s boxing–Mismatches! The most flagrant setback for the sport came across the Atlantic one day before Thanksgiving, and it redefined the word “turkey.” Jane Couch, who has been involved in some very
The fight between Lucia Rijker and Marcela Acuna had a very familiar ring to it, and I not talking about a boxing ring. Just when I thought that women boxing was making headway—in this fight and Acuna’s last fight with Martin, I see some similarities that emulate the the 70’s. [photo: by Mary Ann Owen]
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
(AUGUST 21, 2022) Yes, I understand folks that we at times want to bury the true history of the sport—especially when “today’s” promoters want so badly to claim a “History-first”. Please for those doing that, don’t erase the blood, sweat, and tears of those before today’s boxers. I remember all too well when a fighter claimed
It has long been Monsieur Chabut’s desire to find outside competition for the girl boxers who train at the Foyer Club de Grenoble. Even when we took Kiki to Grenoble in 1980 this hope eluded us, as the only girls available, Isabelle and Marle-Pierre, were much lighter, only ‘sparring’ being allowed, though the match with the latter was
Laurie “Thunderbolt” Holt of the Waterville Boxing Club is the new women’s super featherweight champion of the world. She won the crown with a unanimous 15-round decision lover Cora “White Sugar” Webber of Los Angeles in a fight that ended early Tuesday morning in Denver, Colorado. The International Women’s Boxing Association title fight was scored
I recently paid a visit to the Foyer Club De Grenoble. Before doing so I had written to M. Chabut, who runs the club, asking if I could call on him and see the girls in training, to which he readily agreed. Imagine my surprise on arrival to find that he had arranged a small tournament for
1980s Female Amateur Boxers from France: Latest Addition to the History of the sport on WBAN and Youtube. I just added some very rare edited footage to Youtube of these young female amateur boxers from the 1980s in Grenoble, France. (The footage is very old and raw looking due to the age of the footage.
ALL HISTORIC PHOTOS ARE IN THE WBAN ARCHIVE COLLECTION The two diminutive fourteen year olds were nicely into the second round of their three-round sparring bout. The first had seen some crisp exchanges, the tallerof the two boxers, with the advantage of reach, scoring with a good straight right. Now that right darted out again