In a somewhat surprising announcement, the World Boxing Council’s female championship committee has declared an immediate rematch between their flyweight champion Jessica “Kika” Chavez (27-4-3, 4KO) and her last challenger Esmeralda “La Joya” Moreno (33-9-1, 11KO). Earlier in 2016, in a “fight of the year” candidate, Chavez defeated Moreno with a majority decision. The […]
Argentina’s Daniela Bermudez Beats Mariana “Barbie” Juarez in Mexico City Before a packed Arena Coliseo in the heart of Mexico City, Mexico, and televised by the biggest TV network in Mexico, Argentina’s Daniela “Bonita” Bermudez (21-3-2, 6KO) pulled an upset by closing the second half strong over the veteran Mariana “Barbie” Juarez (43-9-4, […]
Heather Hardy Wants More: “I Didn’t Come This Far Just To Come This Far” With only four weeks to prepare, undefeated WBC International super bantamweight champion Heather “The Heat” Hardy (18-0, 4KO) stepped into the ring against her most important opponent to date, Shelly Vincent (18-1, 1KO), last Sunday, August 21st, at the Ford Amphitheatre […]
Flashback Friday: Christy Martin vs Belinda Laracuente at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas March 3, 2000. For those that follow female boxing, the “Coalminer’s Daughter” Christy Martin needs no introduction. Arguably the first American female boxer to break through to the mainstream, Martin began boxing after participating in “tough women” contests in the […]
Christy Martin A Retrospective Look at Hall of Fame Career Another first will be lived this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada, when the “Coalminer’s Daughter”, Christy Martin, is inducted as the first female fighter to the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. The ceremony is set to take place on Saturday night, July 30th, […]
Five Landmark Dates in Women’s Prizefighting – A version of boxing has been around since time immemorial. There is evidence of it in the Middle East Before Christ. Records of actual prizefighting go back as far as the 16th century. But the boxing we recognize and know today, with its rules and weight divisions, began with […]
Considered among the pound for pound best in the female boxing world, Cecilia Braekhus will make history once again when she headlines a boxing card in Norway on October 1. The sport has been banned in the northern European country for more than 30 years. Norwegian by choice, Colombian by birth, thirty-five year […]
Mexican-American Amateur Star Sulem Urbina Signs with Zanfer Promotions Amateur standout Sulem Urbina will not let tragedy mark her life. In 2013 her brother Alexis, an amateur with a bright future in his own right, died from injuries sustained in a home invasion at their family home in Phoenix, Arizona. It was their […]
Melissa McMorrow Wants Knight and Bopp – For a fighter the worst thing that can happen besides losing a fight is for the actual bout to fall out. For former two-time female WBO flyweight world champion Melissa “Mighty Mo” McMorrow (10-5-3, 1KO) it is nothing new. “I am pretty used to fights falling out,” […]
TIJUANA, MEXICO-WBA minimum weight champion Anabel Ortiz (21-3, 4KO) of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, survived a knockdown to stop veteran Jolene Blackshear (9-8, 4KO) of San Diego, CA, at the end of the eighth round of a scheduled ten to defend her title for the seventh time on Saturday. The good-action championship bout was the […]