(JAN 7) In the local news media (freep.com), in Detroit, Michigan, they are reporting that Tonya Harding has been added to a Mixed Martial Arts Extreme Cage Fight War card on January 24, 2009 at the palace. She would be boxing, but no opponent has been named. [Flash from the Past photos of Tonya Harding training in 2003]
The promoter of the event is Donofrio Entertainment. Tickets are at $10 to $50 and are available at alacenet.com, the Palace box office and all Ticketmaster locations.
Joe Donofrio said, “No. 1, she’s going to sell tickets, and No. 2, she needs to face her demons.”
Sue "TL" Fox, Multi-Hall of Famer, award-winning pioneer boxer rated #1 in the world in 1979, and creator/founder of WBAN™. She was named in the Feb. 2012 Commemorative issue of Ring Magazine as one of the Top-Ten Most Influential female boxers of all time. Since its inception on the Internet 27 plus years ago, WBAN has become the world’s leading authority for resource and information in female boxing. Fox outside the
ring is a professional musician and a retired police officer from Oregon. She also created and founded the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014. [In April of 2025, in Las Vegas, Fox will celebrate the 12th year anniversary of the IWBHF, and 27th year of WBAN as of May 18, 2025.]
