Tag: Lake Tahoe

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. 

Fight documented in the Nevada State Journal, dated Octorber 7, 1977, Page 27, writer: Steve Sneddon On October 6, 1977, at the Hyatt-Lake Tahoe Hotel, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Jullie Mullen, 144, of Reno, Nevada, making her pro debut won in the first round of a scheduled four-round bout where she TKO’d her opponent, Phyllis Brueske,