Photo taken, just before Sue TL Fox stepped in the Ring with Gwen Gemini. She is featured with her father this night. He passed away two years later in Dec. of 1979.
(Inaccurate details in this report, but we believe it was Actually Charlene Anthony was the opponents name)Las Vegas News Copyrighted by Star-News, Pasadena, California, dated 04/01/1977 – by Don Riley – Knight News Wire Would you believe that three weeks ago ‘a middleweight feminine swatter from California won the “Fighter of the Month” honors?
Fight report written by a local paper where Ludian was from…Nevada State Journal – Reno -By Steve Sneddon – Dated March 2, 1977 [Fight took place March 1, 1977] In a surprise, LaVonne Ludian of Las Vegas ran into a little more trouble than she expected in her tuneup for next Wednesday’s women’s welterweight championship
In February of 1977, about a week before there was going to be a boxing card take place at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Sue TL Fox was contacted by boxing manager Dee Knuckles, who managed her, and also managed Gwen Gemini of New York, who was living in Los Angeles. Fox said,
A midst tremendous controversy, the first women’s professional boxing bout in Connecticut took place on Saturday, January 10, 1976. In order to give you a firsthand report on the bout, Jo and Jeff Bray were at ringside. The fight was between Gwen Gemini of Springfield, Massachusetts, 23 years old, 152 lbs., her fourth fight, and
Full Copyrights: Women’s Titlists, Circa 1949 The Press-Courier – April 12, 1972, page 8 In an article published on April 12, 1972, a woman with 10 children talks about her past boxing experience and claim that she was a former boxing champion from a November 1949 fight. Her name was Mrs. Lancaster, of Lancaster, Tennessee.
London’s female boxer Annie Newton, was born in 1893 in Highgate, North London, and passed away in 1955. Annie began appearing in stage shows and fairground tents, at the young age of 10, and in those shows she would spar with men, to raise money for various charities. She boxed for 14 years. Annie who
