(OCT 17, 2003) This last week in Curacao, Ana “Dinamita” Pascal, Panama, and a top-ranked women’s boxer fought a male boxer. Pascal, according to news sources took quite a beating, when the fight was stopped by the ref in the fourth round. Apparently the male boxer was a last-minute replacement, and the fight was then
Copyrighted Photograph: Shirley Tucker vs. Toni Rodriguez – WBAN purchased the exclusive rights to photo. All Rights Reserved. One of the trailblazers and groundbreakers for the sport in the 1980’s goes to Shirley “Zebra Girl” Tucker. She not only became a veteran in the sport as a pro, but Shirley challenged the California Athletic Commission
Pioneer female boxer Joann Hagen had a mixed boxing match with Norm Jones and defeated him in a four-round decision in Michigan City in 1952. If any boxing match should be declared the “first” the Hagen/Jones fight was the closest to equivalency of that honor…Hagen was also on the Steve Allan Show and had talked about
Mixed Match -The Bee, Danville, Virginia, Monday, September 25, 1922, page 11 In the time frame that Jeanne La Mar was in the sport of boxing, she continued to have problems finding female opponents, so at times, she would also do some matches with males in the ring. In this short description of
HELEN HILDRETH, the Lady Pugilist, was having the best of it in a MIXED FIGHT with Johnny Atkinsson, when the POLICE and BOXING COMMISSION Fred Wenck jumped into the RING and ORDERED the stop to fight! – Grupp’s Gym, N.Y.C. In another publication, they reported the following HILDRETH: Tonight, the vaudeville that was the talk
One of the earliest documented materials that WBAN found was dated February 29, 1916. The article stated, “Helen Hildreth, the Lady Pugilist, was having the best of it in a mixed fight with Johnny Atkinson when Police and Boxing Commissioner Fred Wenck jumped into the RING and ordered the fight stopped “Grupp’s Gym, N.Y.C.” This