Adler Meets Hermans On The Comeback Trail By Phil Woolever When super-middleweight Nikki Adler faces Femke Hermans at the Curt Frenzel Stadium in Augsburg, Germany on Saturday night it will be more than simply a meeting for the vacant WBO title. Personally, it’s also a meaningful homecoming appearance for Adler, who relocated […]
Female Fight News May 7, 2018 Another Look at Braekhus By David A. Avila When Cecilia Braekhus selected Kali Reis as an opponent for HBO’s female boxing debut it was because she wanted someone to test her. Borrowing a term from Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, it was a “big drama show” as the welterweight world […]
Braekhus Survives Reis In Historic HBO Televised Fight By Felipe Leon LOS ANGELES-Despite employing a war dance in her ring walk and dropping the undefeated and undisputed welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus in the seventh round, it just wasn’t enough for the game Kali Reis (13-7-1, 4KO) to score the upset with Braekhus (33-0, […]
Cecilia Braekhus Defends Welterweight Titles Against Kali Reis in Los Angeles By David A. Avila Cecilia Braekhus enters the gauntlet and it truly begins for her this weekend. Known as the “First Lady,” the serenely confident Norwegian now tries her skills against America’s best and now it begins. Braekhus (32-0, 9 KOs) risks her […]
Cecilia Braekhus Breaks Last Television Barrier, HBO Will Show Female Boxing By David A. Avila Norway’s Cecilia Braekhus has broken the last barrier and the undisputed welterweight champion’s defense will be televised by HBO it was announced today. HBO has never shown female boxing in its long history. Braekhus (32-0, 9 KOs) defends the […]
Claressa Shields vs Hanna Gabriels for Middleweight Title By David A. Avila A battle of true world champions Claressa Shields and Costa Rica’s Hanna Gabriels will take place in two months, announced Salita Promotions. Forget about the other championship bouts. When IBF and WBC super middleweight champion Shields (5-0, 2 KOs) enters the boxing […]
Female Fight News April 16 Down Argentine Way and More By David A. Avila Down under in Argentina a battle between two of their top world champions saw youth take the forefront as Daniel Bermudez won her duel with the first of that country’s top fighter’s Marcela Acuna. Bermudez, a speedy southpaw, was able […]
Houston’s Marlen Esparza is Main Event in L.A. By David A. Avila Marlen Esparza was the first American woman to ever win an Olympic medal in boxing. Now she’s on the hunt to return to that mountain peak as a pro. But it takes work. Esparza (4-0) meets France’s Laetizia Campana (2-4) in the […]
Female Fight News March 19, 2018 West Coast Revived By David A. Avila After two or three years of darkness West Coast boxing finally returned and for two consecutive weeks female prizefighting shined. For back-to-back weeks female boxing was televised on three separate fight cards thanks to Golden Boy Promotions and Top Rank. One […]
Raquel Miller Poised To Make a Statement By Felipe Leon For Raquel Miller, the undefeated middleweight from San Francisco, California, nothing happens without hard work and determination. The 33-year-old didn’t step into a local boxing gym until the age of 24 after some earlier false starts. Within a year she was competing […]