Tag Archives: Ava Knight

Wish List for Female Boxing in 2018 Part 2

2018 Wish List Part II   By Felipe Leon   In 2017 we saw the sport of female boxing get to a level we had not seen before in quite some time.  In part one we went through the list from super feather to heavyweight of the female division for matches we would like to see. […]

Mexican Battles: Zamora vs Millan & Rivas vs Larios

Fighting For a Chance: Zamora vs. Millan &
Yazmin Rivas vs. Larios
While the big news in female boxing in the United States is the upswing the sport

Arely Mucino and Lupita Martinez in Separate Title Fights in Mexico

Arely Mucino and Lupita Martinez Featured This Saturday   By Felipe Leon   The female boxing world is abuzz with this Saturday night’s culmination of the WBC’s female flyweight tournament where we will see the rubber match between WBC 112-pound champion Jessica “Kika” Chavez face off against her arch nemesis and current WBC 108-pound champ […]

The Return of Kaliesha “Wild” West and Female Fight News

Female Fight News for week of Sept. 18, 2017 Kaliesha West and more   By David A. Avila After a few years of dormancy in female prizefighting the West Coast seems to be waking up from its slumber. Kaliesha “Wild” West a two-division world champion from Moreno Valley, Calif. returns to the prize ring after […]

Kaliesha West Wants One More Title Shot

Kaliesha West Wants One More Title Shot   By Felipe Leon   If you follow female boxing, then you know Kaliesha “Wild Wild” West.  Ultra-popular in her native Southern California, the 29-year-old righty is one of the veterans of the prior wave of female boxing in the United States.   After going pro in early […]

Olympians Mikaela and Claressa and Female Fight News for week of Aug. 7

Female Fight News for week of Aug. 7, 2017 Olympian Week   By David A. Avila Olympian week took hold as former American team mates both made history over the weekend in different parts of the U.S.A. The sleeping giant has awoken Claressa Shields dominated WBC super middleweight champion Nikki Adler to rip the world […]

Mexico’s Arely Mucino Chasing WBO Flyweight Title

“Machine Gun” Arely Muciño In Hot Pursuit of WBO Champ Alarcon   By Felipe Leon   Despite only being 28-years-old, Mexican flyweight Arely “Ametralladora” Muciño (23-3-2, 10KO) has reached the mountain top of her division not only once but three times.   The fighter from Monterrey, Mexico, is now looking for immortality as she goes […]

WBC Flyweight Tournament and Female Fight News for week of April 17

Female Fight News for week of April 17 Flyweight Tournament and more   By David A. Avila Flyweights and bantamweights take center stage this weekend in Mexico and the U.S. respectively as world title fights take place. It was a light week for female boxing in most of the world. Europe saw fighters in Hungary […]

Catching Up With a Warrior: Sindy Amador

Catching up with a Warrior: Sindy Amador     Southern California has always been home to tough fighters.   From the San Fernando Valley down to the border with Mexico and from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the border against Arizona, with its mix of ethnicities prone to get inside a ring and […]

Best Female Prizefighters Pound for Pound 2016

Here’s our list of female prizefighting’s top pro boxers in the world. A few will be fighting in the ring very soon and others have not fought for more than a year. But we’re basing our assessment on pure talent, not activity. In the U.S. many of the top female fighters have a difficult time […]