In the INCLINE VILLAGE-NEVADA News (UPI), the reported that on May 5, 1976, female boxer Caroline Svendsen dropped her guard to fix her bra , and she caught a right to her chin from which she never recovered.
Svendsen, reported to be 35 years at the time, of Virginia City , Nevada, was stopped at 1:28 seconds of the second round by ERSI ARVISO, of Los Angeles, California. They referred to the fight as a SPECIAL EVENT FIGHT (ah…exhibition? perhaps….)
Svendsen said at the time that she believed she was the first woman to be licensed to box. It was the pro debut of ARVISO.
Note: FightFax, nor the Nevada Athletic Commission have any documentation on this fight as being SANCTIONED.
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.]
