Claressa Shields Charging Forward After Winning Fighter of the Year and More By David A. Avila It was a remarkable year in a burgeoning career that’s only Claressa Shield’s third year as a professional. Just how far can she strive? Already strapped with multiple world title belts in the super middleweight division and now […]
Double Barrel Blast From Layla McCarter and Amanda Serrano and More By David A. Avila Female prizefighting got a double barrel blast of American firepower this past weekend as Layla McCarter and Amanda Serrano displayed their respective talent. Serrano proved why American female fighters are feared and respected the world over as she blasted […]
“Tiny” Tina Rupprecht Makes a Big Impression You could say that women’s boxing saved the day for Germany in 2018. A few years ago regions from Berlin to the Rhine had many of boxing’s biggest fights, month after month. Since the end of the Klitschko brothers’ era all that changed as Felix Sturm, […]
The 10 Most Game-Changing Fights of 2018 The last 12 months were exciting ones for female boxing with new barriers being broken by women in the ring. The sport is evolving as well in the way consumers enjoy it with all the emerging streaming apps including DAZN, ESPN+ as well as more traditional terrestrial […]
Female Prizefighting: A Look Back at 2018 By David A. Avila It was the best year yet for female prizefighting in 2018 and expect even more in 2019. Blame it on Rio for what’s slowly and powerfully developing into a slow growing tidal wave of appeal. Boxing fans are catching on to female boxing […]
A Wish List for 2019 – Part I Another year in the books for the wonderful world of female boxing and although 2018 was not as good as 2017 as far as action we did see some historical fights including the debut of female boxing on HBO. We can only hope that next 12 […]
ThePrizefighters.com Best Fight of the Year – Claressa Shields vs Hanna Gabriels By David A. Avila Many intense and entertaining fights took place all over the world. But for drama and intensity with the world watching and with much at stake we voted on the following fight as the best for 2018. We also […]
Fighter of the Year is Claressa Shields for ThePrizefighters.com By David A. Avila This has been the pinnacle year for women’s prizefighting. Never before has female boxing had as much exposure. In the month of December alone we saw several of the top female boxers in the world show off their talent before wide […]
Pound for Pound List for December 2018 By ThePrizefighters.com staff Here’s our last list of the year 2018. Some fighters have moved up and a few moved down. Once again Layla McCarter heads our list and we have two new additions to our Pound for Pound list. Layla McCarter – This year […]
Lou DiBella Doubles Down Many say a second wave of female boxing has exploded in the United States since the late summer of 2016 when NBC Sports televised the first go-around between Heather Hardy and Shelly Vincent, the 10 round battle was considered the fight of the year and since then we’ve had a […]