Christopher Benedict: A writer, historian, and longtime advocate for women’s boxing

Christopher Benedict is a writer, historian, and longtime advocate for women’s boxing who lives in Huntington, New York.  Beginning with a sit down interview and feature-length story on Heather “The Heat” Hardy in 2015, his boxing writings have appeared on the Ringside Report, True School Boxing, The Grueling Truth, and Women’s Fight News websites, as well as his personal blog Hooking Off The Jab, and have been collected in seven self-published books. The most recent is “I’m Not in the Business. I Am the Business,” which takes its title from a line in one of Chris’ favorite movies, “Blade Runner.”

An elector with both the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame and International Boxing Hall of Fame, Chris also serves on the Ring Magazine Women’s Boxing Ratings Panel which holds weekly discussions to determine divisional and pound for pound rankings.

[photo of Christopher Bennett with Lady Tyger Trimiar when she was inducted into the
International Boxing Hall of Fame in New York]

He is also credited as a contributing archive researcher for the 2023 documentary “Right To Fight,” directed by Georgina Cammalleri and chronicling the struggles and triumphs of 1970s women’s boxing trailblazers Lady Tyger, Cat Davis, Sue Fox, Pat Pineda, Squeaky Bayardo, and Lavonne Ludian.

In September of this year, Chris was asked by the Rod Serling Memorial Foundation to give a presentation based on his book “The Twilight Rounds: Rod Serling Explores the Dark Side of Boxing” at SerlingFest: A Rod Serling Centennial Celebration at the Forum Theatre in Serling’s hometown of Binghamton, New York.

The opportunity to assist in preserving the vital history of women’s boxing to ensure that it is properly acknowledged and celebrated by present and future generations is a responsibility Chris is humbled by, takes very seriously, and is strongly passionate about.