Full copyrighted article: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/women-in-gloves/ Dated: September 3, 1987 – by Jeff Carlson Boxing is boxing. Whether the fighters are male or female, the blood is one color, the bruises look the same, and the same skills apply to winning a bout. The only difference in equipment is that women wear breast protectors and men wear
August 17, 1987 – by Paul Sullivan (posted for historic purposes only. Full copyrights of Chicago Tribune: A half hour after the battering, the losing fighter stood outside the office in the trendy Near North Side health club, a check for $1,200 in one hand and a small towel filled with ice in the other. Placing
Laurie “Thunderbolt” Holt of the Waterville Boxing Club is the new women’s super featherweight champion of the world. She won the crown with a unanimous 15-round decision lover Cora “White Sugar” Webber of Los Angeles in a fight that ended early Tuesday morning in Denver, Colorado. The International Women’s Boxing Association title fight was scored
Laurie Holt’s professional boxing career to date, consists of four fights against the same opponent–not quite the makings of a champion. But consider the opponent. Holt’s only foe has been Cheryl Brown, the world’s fourth-ranked women’s featherweight. Prior to a week ago, Holt, 20, of Waterville had lost three straight. But her last time out