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Barnstorming Through Council Bluffs: JoAnn Hagen Takes On Pat Emerick and Wrestler Bev Lehmer Over Thanksgiving Week 1949 5ae34ee003b72.image_-658x1024

Barnstorming Through Council Bluffs: JoAnn Hagen Takes On Pat Emerick and Wrestler Bev Lehmer Over Thanksgiving Week 1949

Sue TL Fox February 20, 2025
Article by Christopher Benedict The Bendix plant that opened in South Bend, Indiana in 1923 quickly established...
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Sue TL Fox February 2, 2025
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Who Better Than a Woman? Boxing Pioneer Belle Martell: First Female Promoter, Ring Announcer, Timekeeper, and Referee

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Theresa Kibby vs. Lavonne Ludian Las Vegas Rubber Match Was First Nationally Televised Women’s Fight 274803267_1575236982859326_5793246297893837883_n

Theresa Kibby vs. Lavonne Ludian Las Vegas Rubber Match Was First Nationally Televised Women’s Fight

Sue TL Fox January 24, 2025
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Theresa ‘Princess Red Star’ Kibby and Diane Syverson Fought 1976 Rematch at Olympic Auditorium Amid Death Threat 358364516_10159768754276733_5749504994171657474_n

Theresa ‘Princess Red Star’ Kibby and Diane Syverson Fought 1976 Rematch at Olympic Auditorium Amid Death Threat

Sue TL Fox August 18, 2022
Written by:  Christopher Benedict For prizefighting ladies of the 1970s, the matches they contested against one another...
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