(JAN 7) the times her parents thought she was in her bedroom, 14-year-old Cecilia Braekhus would creep towards her window, silently climb out and shimmy down the high fire escape on the side of the house to go training. Each time she wasn’t thinking about making history. She just didn’t want her parents to find
(NOV 5) Two Golds and a Bronze was the reward for a three strong IABA team at the prestigious 2017 International Box Am Tournament in Santa Cruz, Tenerife on Saturday when both Kellie Harrington and Grainne Walsh struck Gold in their respective final bouts. Photo credit: Facebook Harrington, the AIBA World Silver medallist gained a
(JULY 23) DETROIT – German WBC Super Middleweight World Champion Nikki Adler is hard at work for her Friday, August 4 title defense against two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa “T-Rex” Shields. Adler (16-0, 9 KOs) will make the third defense of her WBC 168-pound title, and try to add the IBF Super Middleweight belt to
(AUG 25) This weekend WBAN has listed some of the highlights of women’s boxing that will take place worldwide. We would love to be listing much more boxing action but it looks like slim pickin’s otherwise. On Saturday night, August 27, 2016 – Palenque de la Feria, Gomez Palacio, Durango, Mexico, Mariana Juarez will fight
(AUG 22) Heather Hardy and Shelly Vincent brought their unbeaten records to the southernmost tip of Brooklyn, commonly known as Coney Island, staging a ten round donnybrook that stole the show at the Premier Boxing program, promoted in conjunction with Lou Di Bella’s Di Bella Entertainment at the open air Ford Amphitheater, hard by the
(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 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 3) The Nevada Boxing Hall of fame held its annual induction ceremony this past weekend in Las Vegas at the iconic Caesar´s Palace. It was a memorable event as Rich Marotta´s leadership keeps moving the NVBHF into the right direction, honoring the heroes from the past who have made our sport the best in
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,
Hmmmm…….SOMEONE must have been good for Santa Claus this year! In the year 2013, we had some of the craziest and silliest published ratings on the net that we have seen in a long time! Yes folks, Christmas was MOST certainly good to some of these boxers when it came to being rated in