Female Fight News for week of Feb. 27, 2017 Heather Hardy and more All heads turn toward Europe once again as Ireland’s Olympic gold medalist Katie Taylor returns to the prize ring in London, England. Taylor (2-0) meets Italy’s Monica Gentili (6-6) at O2 Arena for a four round lightweight clash on Saturday March 4. […]
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Norway’s Cecilia Braekhus Decisively Beats Svensson; Who’s Next? A battle between Nordic prizefighters saw Cecilia Braekhus calmly control the action to defeat Klara Svensson by unanimous decision on Friday to retain the welterweight world championship. Norway’s Braekhus (30-0, 8 Kos) remained undefeated and kept the WBC, WBA IBF and WBO titles against Sweden’s Svensson (17-2, […]
Female Fight News for week of Feb. 20, 2017 Cecilia Braekhus and more Welterweights take center stage in Northern Europe this Saturday with a couple of top notch women colliding in icy Norway. First, a couple of boxing crazy countries let loose this past weekend as Argentina and Mexico opened up with a flurry of […]
Female Fight News for week of Feb. 13, 2017 Jennifer Han and more Action in the female fight world saw some increased action in Hungary, Mexico and Venezuela this past weekend with several ex-world champions participating in main events in several continents. In Europe two of Hungary’s best collided with each other as Kleopatra Tolnai […]
Mucino Gets Pass Sandoval, Robles Stops Vargas TECATE, MEXICO-Three-time world champion Areli “Amatralladora” Mucino (23-3-2, 10KO) struggled but was able to squeeze out a technical decision over late-sub Kandy Sandoval (9-8, 2KO) of Xochimilco, Mexico, in a super flyweight 10-rounder in the main event of a Zanfer Promotions fight card on Saturday. The […]
Big Female Fight Card in Tecate, Mexico – Mucino and Robles Look For World Title Shots, Enriquez Stood Up At the beginning of this year, an unofficial announcement for the third annual WBC All-Female boxing convention was spread through social networks for mid-February. The convention was to be held in the capital of one […]
It’s True. Claressa Shields the Main Event on Showtime Card in March. Former U.S. Olympic superstar Claressa Shields signed an expected contract with television network Showtime on Tuesday. But not expected was that her fight will be the main event. It’s an historic moment in female boxing. “I did not expect to be the […]
Female Fight News for week of Feb. 6, 2017 Jackie Nava and more Jackie Nava, the former super bantamweight world champion turned Mexican Senator, returned to the boxing ring after a two-year absence to win the vacant WBC International title by decision on Saturday. After the long absence, the Tijuana-based prizefighter known as the […]
Female Fight News for week of Jan. 30, 2017 Edina Kiss Asian female boxing is heating up in places you would not assume and down in Mexico a politician of high ranking enters the boxing ring. Mexico’s heralded Jackie “the Aztec Princess” Nava returns to the boxing ring after almost two years on hiatus. If you’re […]
Female Fight News for week of Jan. 23, 2017 European female boxing got started with a bang this week with several top fights taking place in France and Belgium. The big one was supposed to take place this weekend with Norway’s Cecilia Braekhus defending her welterweight belts against Swedens Karla Svensson. It was postponed […]