A big shocker in 2005 was when WBAN learned that a female boxer was arrested for murder. According to reports in the Paraguayan press on January 4, 2005, Severino Riveros, former Paraguayan amateur champion, active as both a promoter and trainer in Sao Paulo where he has lived for the last 15 years, had been shot dead allegedly by one of his pupils, 23-year-old Miura Davila Ferreira, with whom he was romantically linked.
Ferreira, of Brazil, 6-3-0, boxed from May 10, 2005 to September 11, 2009. She fought Marcela Acuna twice, in her pro debut and the last fight that she fought as a pro.
Sue "TL" Fox, Multi-Hall of Famer, award-winning pioneer boxer rated #1 in the world in 1979, and creator/founder of WBAN™. She was named in the Feb. 2012 Commemorative issue of Ring Magazine as one of the Top-Ten Most Influential female boxers of all time. Since its inception on the Internet 27 plus years ago, WBAN has become the world’s leading authority for resource and information in female boxing. Fox outside the
ring is a professional musician and a retired police officer from Oregon. She also created and founded the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014. [In April of 2025, in Las Vegas, Fox will celebrate the 12th year anniversary of the IWBHF, and 27th year of WBAN as of May 18, 2025.]
