Beautiful Brawlers Founders Salazar and Gutierrez: Ready for The Future By Felipe Leon There is no denying that female boxing at the moment is in a renaissance. There is more female boxing being televised in the United States either on television or on applications than perhaps ever before. In less than 10 years […]
Tuesday Bombshells: Claressa Shields, Heather Hardy and Amanda Serrano incoming fights By David A. Avila It was a remarkable Tuesday. The female prizefighting world dropped two bombs today: Claressa Shields will indeed fight Croatia’s Ivana Habazin in a super welterweight world title clash. And second, New York’s undefeated Heather Hardy will fight seven-division world […]
Yokasta Valle Wins IBF Minimum weight Title in Spain and Female Fight News By David A. Avila Third time was the charm for Costa Rica’s Yokasta Valle in winning a world title overseas. Valle (18-2) traveled to Adalucia, Spain and won by split decision over IBF minimum weight world titlist Joana Pastrana (15-2) on […]
Hanna Gabriels vs Abril Vidal in World Title Clash – UFC Fight Pass will stream By David A. Avila Costa Rica’s queen of boxing Hanna Gabriels returns to the boxing ring but this time she has all of Norther America watching. WBA super welterweight world titlist Gabriels (19-2-1, 11 KOs) defends against undefeated Argentine […]
Possible Female Fights for Second Half of 2019 By Felipe Leon One can say the new wave of female boxing in the United States began in the late summer of 2016 when Heather Hardy’s win over Shelly Vincent was broadcast on NBC Sports. Since then we have seen a resurgence of female boxing […]
Catching Up with Franchon Crews-Dezurn By Felipe Leon Despite female boxing really coming into its own in the last half-decade, it has taken the bigger promoters of the sport time to catch up. Lou DiBella of DiBella Entertainment has been one that has believed in female fighting for quite some time, keeping a […]
Female Boxing 6-Month Progress Report By Felipe Leon After a historic 2018 where we saw a number of firsts in female boxing including the first female bout on HBO, this year has not let up. In the last six months we have seen a considerable up-swing in action as well as interest in female boxing […]
Franchon Crews Enters the Golden Age and More Female Fight News By David A. Avila Franchon Crews Dezurn grabbed her first fight and win in a year by knockout. Despite holding the WBC super middleweight world title her match against Kayla Williams was a non-title fight and ended by knockout. On most occasions it […]
Claressa Shields Chasing Third Division World Title in August By David A. Avila When other pound for pound boxers refuse to fight, what do you do? You challenge yourself. Two division world champion Claressa Shields could not entice other top champions so she will be dropping down to 154-pound super welterweight and meeting Croatia’s […]
Katie Taylor’s Battle vs. Delfine Persoon Begs for Rematch By David A. Avila Katie Taylor emerged the winner after 10 brutal rounds against punching machine Delfine Persoon to win by majority decision. It gives the Irish fighter all four major world titles but does it give her the title of undisputed world champion? Though […]