Tag: Editorial

It is traditional in boxing to commemorate a death by a ritual tolling of the ring bell for a count of ten. It may, soon, be appropriate to begin a toll for the sport of Women’s boxing and it’s life span as a viable sport. Women’s boxing is on the verge of suffering the most

Was it really three years ago when Christy Martin and Diedre Gogarty thrust women’s boxing on to the American sports scene? You bet. That pay-per-view event, March 16, 1996, is universally recognized as the singular most important event in women’s boxing, maybe ever. Martin and Gogarty was a pay-per-view feature on a Mike Tyson undercard.