Mikaela Mayer Floors Vanessa Bradford and Dominates By David A. Avila Former U.S. Olympian Mikaela Mayer captured the vacant NABF super featherweight title with good body work and a knockdown of Canada’s Vanessa Bradford to win by unanimous decision on Saturday. Mayer (8-0, 4 KOs) reached her first goal of winning a title and […]
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Saemi Hanagata Wins in Tokyo, Miyo Yoshida in Kagoshima By Yuriko Miyata A couple of important fights took place in Japan as Saemi Hanagata honored her namesake by winning a world title in Tokyo and Miyo Yoshida made a defense in Kagoshima, Japan. After six years, endurance and hard work finally […]
Female Fight News: The Age of Streaming is Upon Us By David A. Avila Maybe streaming can do the job after all. It’s been two weeks since HBO unlaced their gloves and announced it was finished with prizefighting. But just as quickly, two major streaming companies grabbed those tossed away gloves and streamed two […]
Mexico ‘s Kenia Enriquez Hands Venezuela’s Norleidys Graterol Her First Defeat By David A. Avila Facing an undefeated knockout puncher Kenia Enriquez stuck to her game plan and picked apart Norleidys Graterol and won every round to maintain the WBC interim light flyweight title on Saturday. It was Enriquez’s first fight in nearly a […]
Jessica McCaskill Defeats Argentina’s Erica Farias By David A. Avila Chicago has its own world champion as Jessica “CasKilla” McCaskill upset long-time champion Erica “La Pantera” Arias by changing up attacks and winning the WBC super lightweight world title by unanimous decision on Saturday. In a fairytale fight McCaskill (6-2, 3 KOs) hustled […]
Female Fight News Oct.1, 2018 Melissa, Claressa and More By David A. Avila Autumn has officially arrived and all Melissa St. Vil wants before this upcoming Christmas is a super featherweight world title. “My goal is to get my rematch with Eva,” said St.Vil, of WBC super featherweight titlist Eva Wahlstrom. “I’m still number […]
Mega Fight: Claressa Shields vs. Christina Hammer on Nov. 17 By David A. Avila Female prizefighting’s first mega fight has finally arrived. Michigan’s ultra-ambitious Claressa Shields fights Germany’s heralded Christina Hammer for the title of undisputed middleweight world champion on Nov. 17 it was announced on Tuesday. “There are no hard feelings toward her,” […]
Female Fight News Sept. 24, 2018 Mexican Women Continue TV Success By David A. Avila Two world title fights in different parts of Mexico took place and were both televised on that country’s main television networks. Imagine if that happened in the USA? While Yesenia Gomez battled WBC titlist Esmeralda Moreno for the light […]
Selina Barrios Wins the Battle of Undefeated Fighters by Decision over Paty Juarez By David A. Avila San Antonio’s Selina “Aztec Queen” Barrios powered through the taller Paty Juarez to win by unanimous decision in a tight struggle in defense of the NABF lightweight title on Saturday. Barrios (5-0) showed the crowd at Whataburger […]
Japan’s Naoko Fujioka Beats Mexico’s Irma Sanchez By Yuriko Miyata TOKYO-It was not only a complete victory, it was also a big triumph for the 43-year-old legendary fighter Naoko Fujioka to prove that she’s still developing. Five weight-division world champion Fujioka (18-2, 7 KOs) defended her current WBA flyweight title by […]