1976: In a history First bout- Pat Pineda fights Kim Maybee in California

On April 28, 1976, Pat Pineda, 20 years old, fought in the first reported professional boxing match against Kim Maybee, 18 of Los Angeles.    Maybee won the fight by a stoppage.

ARTICLE:  APRONS and GLOVES – by Jim Murray /excerpt

Women’s Boxing gets blasted in the Tucson Daily Citizen, dated Saturday, April 24, 1976, by staff writer Jim Murray.  He begins his spill by titling it, Aprons vs. Gloves.   He writes:  “Remember, not long ago , when you wanted to prepare your little girl to succeed in life,  you gave her tap-dancing lessons? Or piano?  The harp?  Ballet?  You taught her how to cook, sew, got her to let her hair grow?

Now, you get her a pair of gloves.

Murray continues with his dribble in this article….you get the point of what this writer was conveying in the article.  Women’s Boxing has many of these writers that used the power of the pen so to speak to sway their own thoughts and beliefs.  The media was not kind to women who attempted to get into boxing especially in this era of boxing.

Mr. Murray then finally fits in a sentence or two of Pat Pineda fighting Kim Maybee on April 28, 1976 at the Los Angeles Forum.   But not without throwing his own “jabs” at these pioneer boxers.

Quotes from the article:

“Next Wednesday, at the Los Angeles Forum, two young women whose ambition it is to look like Jake LaMotta or Gorilla Jones will try to beat the Bejabbers out of each other in a regularly scheduled, non-spontaneous fight before people who have paid to see it. And they’re not even after the same man.”

“Instead of their hairdressers working in their comers, they’ll have cut men. Instead of facials, they’ll get collodion. If either of them gets a face lift, they’ll stop the fight.”

In a country where it’s illegal to fight\a bull, or to or to pit dogs, or match chickens, they will sell tickets to see a 20-year-old housewife and an la-year-old schoolgirl try to flatten each other, to coin a phrase. Patricia Paneda and Kim Maybee are going to be to women’s boxing what Jake Kalrain andJohn L. Sullivan were to men, pioneers in manual mayhem.  The Marquis of Queensbury would need to sniff snuff. They’ll be on the under card of the Danny “Little Red” Lopez-Famoso Gomez featherweight title elimination bout that night.  I’m not sure either one of them is pointing to a fight with Joe Frazier. But, how would you like to say “1 want you to meet my wife — Manassa Mauler?” Or “My daughter — ‘The Belting Brakeman’?” Of course, it won’t be the first time two women fought over a heavyweight title before. In fact, Muhammad Ali’s wife and girlfriend are doing that right now.”