“They Call Me Cobra,” Adelaida Ruiz By David A. Avila Adelaida Ruiz lives a double life. Monday through Friday the bantamweight fighter Ruiz works at a medical center in a sterile environment where paperwork and well-lit rooms are normal. On weekends, Ruiz works at a darkly lit East L.A. bar. Though it’s in a […]
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Ayaka Miyao Returns By Yuriko Miyata Hard times might be necessary for adventurers to reach their goals. Former WBA atomweight champion Ayaka Miyao (22-7-1, 6KOs) came back to the ring after a lengthy year and a half year absence last Thursday at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall in Japan. Miyao stopped a former […]
Female Fight News June 11, 2018 Germany Rocking Again By David A. Avila Germany is rocking this week. Just like old times. A decade ago if you wanted to find a top tier female prize fight, you looked to Germany. Now the rest of the world has caught up but the country still has […]
Delfine Persoon Gets Another Unsatisfying Victory Over Natalia del Valle Aguirre By Phil Woolever WBC Lightweight Champion Delfine Persoon scored a widespread unanimous decision over Natalia del Valle Aguirre in Belgium Saturday night, but it was not the type of scene one might imagine for a fighter who is considered one of the best […]
Female Fight News June 4, 2018 D-Day for American Fighters By David A. Avila D-Day is approaching for women’s prizefighting in the month of June led by an invasion force that includes Claressa “T-Rex” Shields dropping to the middleweight division. Seventy-four years ago, on June 6, the Allied Forces invaded Normandy Beach in France […]
Franchon Crews: The Art of Staying in One’s Lane By David A. Avila Franchon Crews Dezurn knows how to make an entrance. Back in 2005, the world got its first glimpse of the Virginia native when she stepped on the American Idol platform and sang Alicia Keye’s “If I Ain’t Got You” to an […]
Ewa Piatkowska Survives A Tough Challenge From Maria Lindberg By Phil Woolever International women’s boxing maintained its growing momentum as defending titlist Ewa Piatkowska battled Maria Lindberg for the WBC super welterweight championship on Friday night. Piatkowska (11-1, 4 KOs) earned a rugged, majority decision victory over Lindberg (16-4-2, 9 KOs) in […]
Female Fight News for May 28, 2018 Triple Threats By David A. Avila A third Mexican female fighter Ibeth Zamora joined the ranks of her fellow countrywomen in winning three world titles in three weight divisions. Zamora joins Mariana Juarez and Yazmin Rivas as those Mexican fighters with three division world titles strapped around […]
The Best Comes In Threes: Zamora vs McMorrow By Felipe Leon In the world of female boxing, Mexico imposes a large shadow over the sport. In spite of that, it wasn’t until the legendary Mariana “Barbie” Juarez captured the WBC bantamweight title in April of last year the country had their first three-divisional […]
Female Fight News for May 21, 2018 Tiara Brown’s in Town By David A. Avila Tiara Brown won world and national titles in the amateur boxing world, defeated some of the toughest female boxers in the world, patrols as a police officer in one of the more rugged metropolitan cities in America. So why […]