Tag: Ernestine Jones

Photo by Jack Pokress/WBAN given permission to publish photo. In what was a questionable “changed decision” AFTER a fight that took place on June 7, 1978, in Atlanta, Georgia – Ernestine Jones TKO’d Cathy “Cat” Davis in the Third Round.   After Davis was clearly stopped in the bout, her manager contested the fight and it was declared at

Sue Carlson donated her boxing gear to a historical museum:  documendation-of-boxing-license  historical society-collects-boxing-gear -2    historical society-collects-boxing-gear-3 It is Monday, January 23, 1978, and in the Minneapolis Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, history is being made.  Minnesota’s [reported] first professional women’s boxing match is being featured as a preliminary event on an otherwise all male fight card.