(AUG 21, 2005) Trace the present day history of the sport of Women’s boxing to its beginning and Christy Martin is the prominent name in the conversation. It was Martin who provided the nascent sport with it’s first national recognition, culminating on the front cover of Sports Illustrated. It is not an overstatement that every
(APR 8, 2005) In the “Movie Land” news this week, it has been reported that actor Clint Eastwood is set to direct and star in a boxing-themed ‘Million Dollar Baby’ based on a movie about a fighter-turned-trainer who ends up training a woman in her early 30’s who wants to box. BUT this will NOT
(MAR 10, 2005) Kristy “Rose” Follmar [Inset photo] meets Lisa “Lil Warrior” Lewis in an eight-round junior lightweight match in Tustin on Saturday. Follmar and Lewis headline the 7th annual charity fight card sponsored by Marconi Foundation for Kids at the famous Marconi Auto Museum home to dozens of the most exotic cars in the
(FEB 13, 2005) A seventeenth century French dramatist, Pierre Corneille, no boxing fan he, once said “When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.” Those 300 year old words were proven conclusively once again over the weekend when two women boxers, Laila Ali and Layla McCarter both achieved
If boxing federations wish to earn more credibility for their monthly or quarterly women’s boxing ratings, they should probably set a criteria for how they determine those ratings….Viewing some of the latest postings of ratings, it does not appear that there is very much forethought in that process. WBAN has listed its TOP TEN PICKS
(FEB 23, 2003) Last night on a high profile card that featured mainliner Mike Tyson, in Memphis, Tennessee, Showtime, and the promoter of the event put on an untelevised “beginner’s bout” four-round boxing match on the undercard that featured former ice-skating princess Tonya Harding, and her opponent, Samantha Browning. Browning trained for this match with
When friends fight someone always comes in second. And second in a boxing match means a loss. This was the case at the USA – Wisconsin Amateur Boxing Championship preliminaries Friday, Jan. 11, 2002, at the United Community Center, 1028 S. Ninth Street, Milwaukee, when Alicia Walcher, 14, 109, 0-0, of Peshtigo Boxing Club, faced
LAS VEGAS (Dec. 03, 2000) – Mia St. John , 33, weighing in at 126 lbs., fought Amy Yerkes in a four-rounder at the Plaza Hotel on Univision. St. John moved her record to 19-0-0 (10KO) when she defeated Yerkes by a 1:33 TKO in the fourth round. Yerkes (125), 22, dropped as a pro
Boxing fans shelled out $49.95 to watch tonight’s fight on Showtime, that was promoted by Tommy Hearns, America Presents, and Main Events Inc. The event was surrounded by potential controversy, mainly due to Tyson’s and Golota’s past tarnished reputations with previous fights with others. Both fighters labeled, “The Bad Boys of Boxing” h/ad a list
Andrea Nelson of Dodgeville, Wisc., pounded out a unanimous decision over a fired up Brenda Bell Drexel of San Marcos, Tex., Saturday, Aug. 5, in their four-round lightweight bout, a preliminary to a KO Nation boxing program aired over HBO from Madison, Wisc. The women’s bout and the other three men’s matches were not broadcast