Tag: Sue Carlson

***we are posting this for historical purposes only/ the original article is on UPI Archive by Carrie Muskat MINNEAPOLIS — Sweaty, winded and smiling, Sue ‘K.O.’ Carlson waved her gloved hands around the dimly lit corner of the Olympia Gym in south Minneapolis that she uses as her boxing ring. ‘It’s not much — and it’s

Sue Carlson donated her boxing gear to a historical museum:  documendation-of-boxing-license  historical society-collects-boxing-gear -2    historical society-collects-boxing-gear-3 It is Monday, January 23, 1978, and in the Minneapolis Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, history is being made.  Minnesota’s [reported] first professional women’s boxing match is being featured as a preliminary event on an otherwise all male fight card.