Female Fight News Sept. 3, 2018 East and West Coast Title Battles By David A. Avila Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano chases a sixth world title in as many weight classes this Saturday in New York while Louisa Hawton chases her second in California. East Coast and West Coast female world title challengers are […]
Female Fight News Aug. 27, 2018 Super featherweights By David A. Avila Super featherweight prospect Mikaela Mayer brought light to the division with her dominating win this past weekend. After beating Hungary’s Edina Kiss by technical knockout on Saturday, it shed light on a division that overflows with talent all over the world. Mayer […]
Mikaela Mayer KOs Edina Kiss in Three in Arizona By David A. Avila Mikaela Mayer wasted no time in dropping Edina Kiss with the first power blow landed and eventually stopping her by technical knockout on Saturday. Now it’s on to a world title. Southern California’s Mayer (7-0, 4 KOs) almost showed disdain for […]
Mikaela Mayer On The Hunt for KOs in Arizona By David A. Avila In a little over a year Mikaela Mayer enters the boxing ring for the seventh time but this time as a full fledge super featherweight. “We tried to fight at super featherweight before but the girls we contacted dropped out and […]
Female Fight News Aug. 13, 2018 Mariana and Jackie By David A. Avila Mexico’s reigning queen of boxing Mariana “Barby” Juarez defeated Japan’s Terumi Nuki once again in defense of the WBC bantamweight world title. It was the second time in a year that Juarez vanquished Nuki and like before, it was not easy. […]
Female Fight News July 30, 2018 Katie Taylor Defeats Another 8 to 1 Underdog By David A. Avila Here comes the lightweight division. While Irish Katie Taylor vanquished American lightweight Kimberly Connor in England on Saturday, a battle between lightweight contenders in the U.S. saw Christina Linardatou edge Alycia Baumgardner by split decision. The […]
Layla McCarter Leads Women’s Best Pound for Pound Fighters By David A. Avila Making a pound for pound list, of course, is very subjective. But for the last nine years Layla McCarter has been at the top of this list. Since 2009 McCarter has pinned herself at the top of the pedestal and dared […]
Female Fight News July 23, 2018 Braekhus and Taylor By David A. Avila Considered one of the three best female fighters in the world Cecilia “The First Lady” Braekhus walked into a Russian arena and proved superior against Inna Sagaydakovskaya (7-1, 3 KOs) in winning by unanimous decision. Braekhus (34-0, 9 KOs) walked away […]
Female Fight News for July 16, 2018 West Coast Shines and Future Action By David A. Avila Two Southern California contenders fought in front of a small audience in Los Angeles but in front of a large national audience on ESPN. Up north, another contender performed too. West Coast boxing finally had its turn […]
Mid-Year Progress Report Part I By Felipe Leon The year so far in female boxing has been an excellent one. We have seen Cecilia Braekus break the glass ceiling over at HBO while Claressa Shields gave us one of the most watched fights on Showtime in a number of years. With June […]