Tag Archives: Nana Yoshikawa

Blockbuster Week in Women’s Boxing: Hardy, Serrano, Crews and Japan

Big Week in Women’s Boxing: Hardy, Serrano, Crews, Jimenez and Japan   By David A. Avila Stars emerge this week with several of the world’s best engaged in classic duels from Japan to the USA in three successive nights. An all-female tournament called Victoriva erupts in Tokyo as eight women’s bouts are scheduled to take […]

Montserrat Alarcon vs Nora Cardoza for WBA Title in Mexico

Monserrat Alarcon vs Nora Cardoza   By Felipe Leon   All of a sudden the tiniest of weight classes in all professional boxing is heating up.  Last September in one of the best fights of 2018 Mexican Brenda “Bonita” Flores raged war against Louisa “Bang Bang Lulu” Hawton of Australia for the vacant WBC interim […]

Japan’s Best Female Prizefighters of 2018 A Comprehensive Look

Best of Japan in 2018 and Comprehensive Look at Boxing Crazy Japan   By Yuriko Miyata   Japan has been one of the greatest powers in female boxing especially in the lighter weight divisions in the last decade.   Although the number of reigning world champions is less than that at its peak in 2016, […]

Mexico’s Anabel Ortiz Defends WBA Title Against Yenifer Leon

Ortiz vs Leon: “Avispa” Looks To Sting A Lion   By Felipe Leon   For all of 2017 there were talks that long-reigning 105-pound queen Anabel “Avispa” Ortiz (27-3, 4KO) would be leaving her strawweight hive and jumping to the light flyweight division in hopes of another world title in a different weight class.   […]

Arely Mucino Chasing History and Champ Monserrat Alarcon

Arely Muciño Fights for Her Place in History
By Felipe Leon
One person possibly happier than Monserrat “Raya” Alarcon when the Mexico City native captured the WBO flyweight title over Nana Yoshikawa

Layla McCarter In Mexico City Fight and Female Fight News

Many of the top female prizefighters fought last week and perhaps the best “Amazing” Layla McCarter travels to Mexico to end 2018 with a bang.

Kika Chavez Win Changes Flyweight Landscape

Ripples in the light flyweight-flyweight pond
With this past weekend’s win by Jessica “Kika” Chavez (30-4-3, 4KO) over Esmeralda “Joya” Moreno

Anabel “Avispa” Ortiz Defends Title Against Franco in Mexico City

“Avispa” Ortiz Buzzes Back in the Ring   By Felipe Leon   Just like her nickname “Avispa” (the wasp in Spanish) describes her, the diminutive five-foot even Anabel Ortiz (24-3, 4KO) throws so many punches it seems as if she would levitate.   This Saturday night she will headline the Zanfer promoted fight card televised […]

Mexico’s Arely Mucino Chasing WBO Flyweight Title

“Machine Gun” Arely Muciño In Hot Pursuit of WBO Champ Alarcon   By Felipe Leon   Despite only being 28-years-old, Mexican flyweight Arely “Ametralladora” Muciño (23-3-2, 10KO) has reached the mountain top of her division not only once but three times.   The fighter from Monterrey, Mexico, is now looking for immortality as she goes […]

Back to Back TV and Female Fight News for week of May 1

Female Fight News for week of May 1, 2017 Back to Back TV   By David A. Avila Female boxing hit another historic note with back-to-back weeks of television coverage. Two more brilliant boxers were seen across America for the first time ever. That had never happened before and both are considered among the best […]