BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – Walking into Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn at 9:30am on a March morning, the gym is in full swing. Scanning the scene reveals half of the trainers, fighters, gym members are female. The level and caliber of those women training for their upcoming fights speaks volumes. Melissa St. Vil and Ronica Jeffrey […]
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San Diego’s Amaris Quintana knows very well that few women have ever performed in front of a large scale audience. It’s the main reason she accepted a fight against a razor sharp boxer from across the Mexican border. “I accepted it because it is a big opportunity for us women to be on an undercard […]
Female Fight Chatter March 21st – Southern California’s Mikaela Mayer and Michigan’s Claressa Shields earned their spots as U.S. Olympians. Shields win in the semi-finals guaranteed her a spot and Mayer accomplished the feat with three wins in Argentina. Both will participate in the Olympics in Rio De Janiero this summer along with 2012 London Games. […]
Female Fight Chatter – More than 10,000 tickets have been sold for the upcoming Gennady “GGG” Golovkin versus Dominic Wade fight that takes place at the Forum in Inglewood on April 23. The Forum currently has a capacity of 16,000 seats. The K-2 Promotions fight card will also feature Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez considered along with […]
Fight Chatter Week of March 7 – Upcoming female bouts Argentina’s Edith Matthysse (14-7-1) defends the female WBA and WBC featherweight titles against Canada’s Jelena Mrdjenovich (35-10-1) on Friday March 11 in Edmonton, Canada this time. Their first encounter took place in Buenos Aires where Matthysse won by decision. The rematch will be tougher for […]
Boxer Kali Reis – This past February 19th, Kali Reis captured the vacant Universal Boxing Federation Female World Middleweight title with a first round TKO over rugged veteran Victoria Cisneros. Check out the Kali Reis interview in this video from our friends at The Boxing Channel. When Reis reflects back on a 2015 that saw […]
Women’s Fight Chatter – A Look At This Week’s Fights Mon. Feb. 29 Jessica Belder (4-0) faces Marianna Gulyas (13-22) in a super bantamweight clash set for six rounds on Monday Feb. 29. The female bout takes place at Rotterdam, Netherlands. Belder, 34, resides in Amsterdam and Gulyas, 28, fights out of Hungary. Tues. March 1 […]
Uruguay’s Chris Namus deserves credit for trying to make a fight of it against Cecilia Braekhus. Braekhus lived up to expectations as the “First lady” put on a strong display in her first fight in 15 months. The fight was Saturday, February 27th at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany and the fight aired […]
This Saturday, February 27th World Welterweight Champion Cecilia Braekhus (27-0) faces the challenge of Uruguay’s Chris Namus (21-3) at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany. Cecilia Braekhus vs Chris Namus marks the first time in 15 months that Braekhus, who is nicknamed “The First Lady”, has fought. This Friday afternoon, both ladies came in under […]
Yazmin Rivas Loses WBC Title – An entertaining fight card was the fitting closing for the historic Second Annual WBC Female Convention held in Tijuana, Mexico, on the last weekend of January of 2016. On that Saturday night, January 30th, at the state-of-the-mind Rosarito Convention Center in the small sea village just south of Tijuana, WBC […]