(AUG 5, 2022) Many of you may not be aware of this—but Bob Arum of Top Rank tried to offer some of us Pioneer female boxers a one-year boxing contract of three fights in 1977…..WBAN would like to share this rare document with the boxing community. Documents have been moved to the WBAN Archive Collection. The
The home for female boxing Dulce Lucas, a well-schooled and tough pioneer female boxer from the late 1970s trained in Los Angeles, California. She trained at the Hoover Street Gym, the training ground for many boxing superstars. They call Lucas “Miss Perpetual Motion” and she was currently #2 ranked super welterweight of the Women’s World
This photo was in the Boxing Illustrated Magazine, dated September 1977 On April 16, 1977 on Wide World of Sports, in a rematch of Theresa “Princess Red Star” Kibby and Lavonne Ludian, in a four rounder, Kibby won by a four-round unanimous decision. The two had previously fought at the Silver Slipper Casino, where Bob