Category: WBAN Story

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

Foyer Club de Grenoble France: Competitive Boxing at Last

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

A Visit to the Foyer Club de Grenoble – (1984) by Medala

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