(FEB 9) If ever you took an opportunity to promote your boxing career, whether you are a professional or amateur boxer—-this point in time is when to do it. 2012 is going to be one of the most significant and important history-making years of the sport. With female boxing being accepted into the 2012 London
(APR 13, 2011) WBAN has learned this week that on March 7, 2011, the West Point Women’s Boxing Team made their debut at the Maryland Boxing Invitational. WBAN has linked a video of these women who are in the boxing program.
History First for the Sport and for WBAN First-ever WBAN Independent World Class Belts on Pay-Per-View fight Footage is of the weigh-In that took place on June 12, 2008, at the Isleta Casino & Resort in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Video taken by Sue TL Fox/Copyrighted and All Rights Reserved.
In March of 1993, Dallas Malloy became the first female to challenge the USA Boxing’s bylaw in a federal court. Her dream was to box against other women in the Olympic Games, a goal attainable only as a member of USA Boxing. For months she trained without any immediate hope of competing. Malloy’s lawsuit against
Hamaguchi was the first woman to enter the 1994 Daily News Golden Gloves in New York, NY. To keep them from knowing that she was a female, Diedre mailed in her application using only a first initial “D” Hamaguchi, so as to not give away her gender. to enter the 1994 Daily News Golden Gloves
After eight-years in court in Massachusetts, Gail Grandchamp of North Adams, Massachusetts wins her battle to fight as in a ruling by a state Superior Court judge who rules it was illegal to deny someone a chance to box based on gender. During her battle to win the right to box as an amateur, she passes the
MAY 1982 ISSUE – BOXING ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE Nineteen -year-old Jill Lafler to compete in the Golden Gloves. Jill, a student at Lansing Community College, who has been working out with the men’s boxing team, had tried to register last month for the gloves but was turned down. She appealed and Ingham County Circuit judge Raymond Hotchkiss
The First “official” women’s match took place on July 16, 1979, in New York City, New York, between Toni Tucker vs. Gladys Smith. Both of the weighed in at about 155 lbs. As one reporter said, “The novelty brought a packed house—three times the usual crowd—and reports with photos.” This fight was published in the
The Acceptable Face of Women’s Boxing – A report from an ALL-FEMALE CARD in Hawthorne, California in 1979. by Alastair Segerdal – Reports from California -“One of the few magazines that would publish information about women’s boxing in the late 70’s. I have contacted many of these fighters and people that were involved in the