Tag: flash from the past

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