(AUG 18) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (AUGUST 17, 2016) – Reigning Olympic and World Champion Claressa Shields (Flint, Mich.) had quite the wait before her 2016 Olympic Games opener in Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-two sessions of Olympic boxing came and went before the middleweight champion got the chance to step in to the ring. She
(AUG 16) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The United States boxing team dropped two tough bouts on Monday at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. American flyweight Antonio Vargas (Kissimmee, Fla.) celebrated his 20th birthday and was hoping to celebrate with a second round win but he dropped his second bout of the
(AUG 15) The Olympic tournament in Brazil has created a few surprises so far, especially in the men’s events but on Friday it was the turn of the women to enter the fray though here too there were few surprises on the opening day as we hear from the AIBA’s team in the Brazilian capital.
(AUG 11) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Olympic village roommates Nico Hernandez (Wichita, Kansas) and Carlos Balderas (Santa Maria, Calif.) got their U.S. team off to a strong start in the Rio Olympics but the run ended on Friday afternoon in Rio de Janeiro. Hernandez clinched a bronze medal with his third victory of the
(JULY 29) COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. – The U.S. Olympic Boxing Team has now been on the ground in Rio de Janeiro for nine days and the squad has adjusted well to their new surroundings. After arriving in Brazil on Wednesday, July 20, the team opened a joint training camp with host nation Brazil and the
On Saturday night, June 18, 2016, at the Polideportivo José María Vargas, La Guaira, Venezuela, history was made when the WBA presented an all-female card, featuring six female bouts, with four WBA world championships and three WBA Regional titles. WBAN was told that not only was it an all-female boxing card, but that the referees,
(JAN 31) Eight luminaries, whose careers in boxing span nearly five decades, comprise the third class of the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF). The announcement of the honored inductees was made on Saturday at the WBC Female Boxing Convention in Tijuana, Mexico. The group includes seven boxers from both the “modern era” (1990-2010)
(JAN 8) The International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame recently published that we were going to host our 2016 Induction Ceremony on April 30, 2016. Due to some Inductees, invited guests and attendees which will be at our 2016 Induction Ceremony, we have decided to reschedule. Dates and location will be forthcoming. We will however,
(OCT 2) On October 1, 2014, we brought you Michael O’Neill’s report of the chaotic scenes in Incheon which posed certain questions for the sport’s governing body. In response the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has partially addressed one of the issues raised by instituting Disciplinary proceedings against the Indian boxer (60kg) Laishram Sarita Devi, albeit
(JUNE 12) On July 10, 2014, at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six Hotel, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, the history-first International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame will be having many top female boxers, both former, retired, and current world champions. Our inductees are the following: Lucia Rijker, Christy Martin, Barbara Buttrick, Bonnie Canino, JoAnn Hagen, Christy