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Copyrighted Photo:  WBAN purchased the copyrights to photo of Shirley Tucker –All Rights Reserved. On Tuesday night,  December 6, 1977, at the Hyatt Lake Tahoe Hotel, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, there was a professional boxing card, featuring four female bouts on the card.  This was a history-first for female boxing in the state of Nevada. 

According to the Bakersfield Californian, dated October 8, 1976, Page 25, they have a photo of ROSI REED, and stating the following: “Paul Monoz, manager-trainer of first amateur woman boxer in California, Rosi Reed, checks gloves on his charge before workout.  Mrs. Reed is scheduled to appear on Wednesday’s amateur fight card at Strilch.   [Note: 

Pat Pineda poses with Floyd Patterson – 1976 On April 28, 1976, at the Forum, in Inglewood, California, the first women’s pro fight took place in California.  Pat Pineda, also the first female to obtain a California Boxing License, along with Diane Syverson, was stopped in the second round of a scheduled four round bout

Nevada State Journal, April 1, 1976, Page 11 Women boxers, Pat Pineda and Diane Syverson received their boxing license in California and are reported to be the first females to receive a license in California.  According to the Nevada State Journal dated April 1, 1976, page 11, the two females received their licenses on Tuesday.

  It was reported in many of the news sources that on January 13, 1976, the executive secretary of the California Athletic Commission anticipates few, if any, female boxing matches will result from the repeal of a regulation banning women from entering the ring as boxers.  [There was actually many boxing bouts that took place

WBAN’s Archive has the ORIGINAL documented newsletter in the our Archive Files In the NEWAWA GRAPEVINE newletter, dated April 1976, Page 4,  they reported the following History-first boxing bout that took place in Connecticut.  They wrote the following at the time.  First for Women – A “Tyger” in Our Tank – Amidst tremendous controversy, the first

In the Journal News, dated November 15, 1975, Page 12, they reported that the state of Arizona approves female boxers to fight in that state.  As reported in the Journal New as an AP article they said the following: Women have won another round in equal rights by getting grudging approval of the Arizona Athletic

Documentation:  Tucson Daily Citizen, December 13, 1975, Page 12 Photo/Karen Mast On October 10, 1975, at the Community Center, Tucson, Arizona, in what was probably the FIRST Professional female bout to take place Marion Bermudez, who had boxed a couple of males in the ring in the amateurs, made her pro debut this night.  Her

EVA SHAIN wrote a letter to the  New York State Athletic Commission Chairman Edwin B. Dooley and asked to be granted permission to judge pro fights. A week later, he wrote back and said that he would give her a hearing. SHAIN entered the hearing room on Jan. 6, 1975, and found out the next