Circa 1902 Police Gazette reported: “About 1902 Mlle. Augagnier beat Miss Pinkney of England in a savage fight. It was mix of straight boxing and Savate (French kickboxing). Pinkney was better with her fists and looked like a winner after about one and a half hours of bloody fighting, but Mlle. A. cleverly managed to
London’s female boxer Annie Newton, was born in 1893 in Highgate, North London, and passed away in 1955. Annie began appearing in stage shows and fairground tents, at the young age of 10, and in those shows she would spar with men, to raise money for various charities. She boxed for 14 years. Annie who
Women in boxing since 1722. In that year, Elizabeth Wilkinson and Hannah (Ann Field) Hyfield advertised they would box in London for 3 guineas; but according to some reports (not all) this match never took place in any event, they did box (barefisted) in 1728) and Wilkinson whose last name is now Stokes – won