Female Fight News for week of April 10, Maricela Cornejo and more By David A. Avila Another Olympian made her pro debut, another fighting sister act played out and an undefeated fighter was willing to risk the O in favor of competition. Even though an undefeated Sydney LeBlanc lost to middleweight contender Maricela Cornejo, […]
Female Fight News for week of April 4, 2017 Mariana Juarez and more By David A. Avila In Mexico City, female prizefighting saw history made when that country’s boxing queen fought for the bantamweight world title and won. Across the Atlantic Ocean, in Germany, the middleweight queen remained undefeated to set up a possible […]
Melissa St. Vil Defends WBC Silver Title in Haiti By Janice Yim and David A. Avila Haitian native Melissa St. Vil returns to the warmer climate of her island country once again in defense of her title. It’s still cold in St. Vil’s (9-2-3) adopted New York City and once again she returns to […]
Female Fight News for the week of March 14, Japan’s All Female Card It’s almost like a dream for those following female boxing. Claressa “T-Rex” Shields won the NABF middleweight title with a one-sided beating of Hungary’s battle tough, but over-matched Szilvia Szabados. More importantly, it was the first time a female fight was the […]
Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza Jumps In With Both Feet The fairer sex has been strapping on the fight gloves as long as men and for more than a century of modern day professional boxing, women have not received their fair share of exposure, recognition, fame, money or a combination of all of the above. […]
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 […]
The Future of Amanda Serrano If anybody in female boxing can be riding a high its WBO super bantamweight champion Amanda Serrano (31-1-1, 23KO) of New York and her manager/trainer Jordan Maldonado. After a very successful 2016 where she fought four times, captured her third and fourth world titles and won every one of […]
Fresh Faces: Sulem Urbina (Editor’s note: Sulem Urbina’s fight set for Saturday was canceled) Like my many female fighters before her and surely after her, Sulem Urbina, 26, of Phoenix, AZ, has dedicated her life to the sport she loves. Her whole life revolves around her strapping on the gloves. Urbina (3-0) […]
Female Fight News for week of Jan. 16, 2017 By David A. Avila A new year brought door busting attention as Brooklyn’s Amanda Serrano kept her WBO super bantamweight title and gained the WBC Diamond belt with her impressive win over Mexico’s Yazmin Rivas this past weekend. It was the first time in years […]