April 21, 2020
The night “big sweating tomatoes” changed women’s boxing forever – by WBAN Senior Editor Brian Ackley
(APR 21, 2020) It wasn’t immediately clear after Christy Martin defeated Deirdre Gogarty in their historic March 16, 1996 bout what a game changer their fight really was. But it didn’t take that long, either, before the boxing world came to realize something special happened that night at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.