Pound for Pound Best Female Fighter Layla McCarter in Mexico City – Sixteen months zipped by since Layla “The Amazing” McCarter stepped into a boxing ring to show off the skills that catapulted her to the best female prizefighter pound for pound. McCarter hasn’t been absent from fighting just absent from the boxing ring. Last […]
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Female Fight Chatter April 11, 2016 – A female middleweight world title bout between Kali Reis (8-5-1) and Maricela Cornejo (4-1) leads a seven female bout card at Auckland, New Zealand on April 16. A total of four bouts will be for titles. It’s a promising fight card that also features the renowned Mia St. John […]
Nineteen year old Tania Enriquez (7-0, 4KO’S), nicknamed “La Chula”, is set to enter the ring as a professional prize fighter for the eighth time this Friday, April 8th. She will be defending her undefeated record against Mary Gastelum (4-1-1, 2KO’S) at Billar El Perro Salado in Tijuana, Mexico. “She is the one with a […]
Female Fight Chatter April 4th – WBA female super lightweight titlist Ana Laura Esteche (11-4-3, 2 Kos) retained the world title after 10 rounds with Farida El Hadrati (9-0-1, 5 KOs) ended in a draw. Esteche, 25, lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina and El Hadrati, 34, lives in France. Esteche floored Hadrati in the third […]
Female Fight Chatter March 28th – Keela Byers, 60, of Lake Elsinore, California lost by knockout to 46-year-old Laura Ramsey in a female heavyweight bout on Saturday at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. It was an evenly matched and entertaining match that lasted until 1:21 of the third round when Ramsey (10-6, 5 […]
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 […]
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 […]