Women’s International Boxing Hall of Fame and Female Fight News By David A. Avila Led by a squad of female prizefighters from the 90s and early 2000s a dozen will be inducted to the Women’s International Boxing Hall of Fame at the end of this month. It’s the class of 2019. World champions from […]
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Tuesday Bombshells: Claressa Shields, Heather Hardy and Amanda Serrano incoming fights By David A. Avila It was a remarkable Tuesday. The female prizefighting world dropped two bombs today: Claressa Shields will indeed fight Croatia’s Ivana Habazin in a super welterweight world title clash. And second, New York’s undefeated Heather Hardy will fight seven-division world […]
Yokasta Valle Wins IBF Minimum weight Title in Spain and Female Fight News By David A. Avila Third time was the charm for Costa Rica’s Yokasta Valle in winning a world title overseas. Valle (18-2) traveled to Adalucia, Spain and won by split decision over IBF minimum weight world titlist Joana Pastrana (15-2) on […]
Eva Wahlstrom Retains WBC Title With Split Draw in Las Vegas, Mitchell and Hart Draw Too By Tarrah Zael LAS VEGAS, NV.-In the headlined main event WBC female world super featherweight champion Eva Wahlstrom (22-1-2, 3 KO) defended and retained her title against challenger Ronica “Queen” Jeffrey (17-1-1, 1 KO) at […]
Ronica Jeffrey Challenges for Super Featherweight World Title in Las Vegas By Felipe Leon Despite a successful amateur career where she won the Golden Gloves three times and captured silver in a national tournament and as a pro having held the NABF, WIBF, WIBA, WBC Silver and WBU titles at different times, Brooklyn, […]
Las Vegas Hosts WBC World Title Fight Wahlstrom vs Jeffrey and more Female Fight News By David A. Avila In the heart of Las Vegas two top notch female prize fights including a world title match take place on Friday Aug. 2, and will be free to the public compliments of Roy Jones Jr. […]
UFC Fight Pass Delves into Female Boxing and More Fight News By David A. Avila In less than two weeks WBC super featherweight world titlist Eva Wahlstrom defends against Ronica Jeffrey and in a co-feature Rosalinda Rodriguez clashes with local favorite Jamie Mitchell. Both female fights take place at the Thomas and Mack Center […]
Marlen Esparza Brushes Aside Osorio, Wants Seniesa Estrada By Tarrah Zael 2012 Olympic bronze medalist and WBO NABO Flyweight champion Marlen Esparza (7-0, 1 KO) of Houston, Texas retained her belt against Mexico’s former world title challenger Sonia Osorio (13-7, 3-1 KO) at Fantasy Spring’s Thursday Night Fights on July 18. This […]
Hanna Gabriels Fends Off Sturdy Attack from Argentina’s Abril Vidal By David A. Avila Nothing extraordinary was expected, yet Costa Rica’s Hanna Gabriels was forced to pull out her veteran’s bag of tricks to out-fight Argentina’s young gun Abril Vidal and retain the WBA super welterweight world title by unanimous decision on Wednesday. Gabriels […]
Hanna Gabriels vs Abril Vidal in World Title Clash – UFC Fight Pass will stream By David A. Avila Costa Rica’s queen of boxing Hanna Gabriels returns to the boxing ring but this time she has all of Norther America watching. WBA super welterweight world titlist Gabriels (19-2-1, 11 KOs) defends against undefeated Argentine […]