NEW YORK – Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist and unified women’s super middleweight Champion Claressa Shields will attempt to become a two-division world champion on Friday, June 22 live on SHOWTIME when she faces unified women’s 154-pound champion Hanna Gabriels for the vacant IBF and WBA Middleweight World Championships at Masonic Temple in Detroit, Mich. The
(NOV 20) NEW YORK – Unified Women’s Super Middleweight World Champion Claressa Shields will defend her 168-pound titles against undefeated IBF mandatory challenger Tori Nelson on Friday, Jan. 12 live on SHOWTIME. A two-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Shields (4-0, 2 KOs) will face her second consecutive undefeated opponent in the main event of ShoBox: The
(AUG 10) As we revealed earlier this week, Edenderry in County Offaly, Ireland will host an International Female Boxing sparring camp 22nd /29th August and we can now bring the sensational news that Team India’s 22 woman squad will include the famous 5 time World champion Mary Kom, the only woman apart from our own
(AUG 10) Nora Daigle, former pro Canadian boxer who competed from 1995-2000 and who currently lives in Ottawa came to visit Toronto’s Shape Your Life boxing program this week. Shape Your Life (SYL) [https://shapeyourlifeboxing.com] is a free, non-contact boxing program for women-identified boxers who have experienced violence. Shape Your Life (SYL) started in 2007 and
(AUG 3) LAS VEGAS – Former world champions Shawn Porter and Layla McCarter were chosen as Nevada Men’s and Women’s Pro Boxers of the Year, respectively, and will be honored by the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame at a gala induction ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 12 at Caesars Palace. Michelle Corrales-Lewis, the Hall’s CEO, also
(JULY 24) There was a very exciting, surprising, and high honor for world champions Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano and Cindy “Checkmate” Serrano. The two came back recently from Puerto Rico yesterday to see a beautiful Mural of the two! Amanda Serrano said to WBAN, “I just came back from Puerto Rico yesterday to be
(JAN 27) The International Boxing Association (AIBA) turns 70 this year so a milestone year in the history of the Association. President Dr.Ching Kuo Wu rightly said: “AIBA celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2016 and will reach the symbolic milestone of 200 National Federation members, underlining boxing’s position among the world’s farthest-reaching, most popular sports
(JAN 18) WBAN and the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF) are happy to announce that we have several board members attending the WBC Women’s World Boxing Convention that is being held from January 27th to January 30th in Tijuana, Mexico. The IWBHF is honored to be invited by the WBC and will be
(OCT 2) On October 1, 2014, we brought you Michael O’Neill’s report of the chaotic scenes in Incheon which posed certain questions for the sport’s governing body. In response the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has partially addressed one of the issues raised by instituting Disciplinary proceedings against the Indian boxer (60kg) Laishram Sarita Devi, albeit
WBAN reported on September 23, 2008, that it had been reported in the Boxing News Magazine, that on November 16, 2008, it would be a landmark date in the history of women’s boxing, when Britain had it’s first ever all-women’s boxing card. The event took place at the Heritage Hotel in Derby, United Kingdom. The