Female Boxing Wish List for 2020 Part II By Felipe Leon There is no denying female boxing is on an upswing. Some might say a new golden era. There is no indication of the bubble bursting any time soon with new ways to watch and follow the sport with applications like DAZN and […]
Pound for Pound in 2019 and More News By David A. Avila The end of a tumultuous and successful year 2019 in female prizefighting has arrived. Some fought less than expected and some fought more. Several weight divisions saw unification bouts take place with Claressa Shields becoming undisputed middleweight world champion and Katie Taylor […]
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 […]
Bermudez Floors Torres Twice But Fight Ends In a Draw By Felipe Leon In an all-out battle from the Domo del Sindicato del IMSS in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, Evelyn “Princesita” Bermudez (12-0-1, 3KO) of Argentina retained her IBF light flyweight title with a draw over ten rounds against local favorite […]
Evelyn Bermudez vs Silvia Torres Preview By Felipe Leon The Bermudez sisters’ invasion has begun. This Saturday night from Mexico City, Mexico, undefeated Evelyn “La Princesita” Bermudez (12-0, 3KO) makes the hours long trek north from her hometown of Rosario, Argentina, to defend her IBF light flyweight title against hometown favorite Silva […]
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 […]
Mariana “Barby” Juarez Educates Youngster and More Female Fight News By David A. Avila One of the best known fighters in the world, Mariana “Barby” Juarez, showed us why she still also belongs among the top pound for pound lists with a strong performance against one of Mexico’s new wave of fighters. The older […]
Gen X Champs Mariana Juarez and Yesica Bopp versus Millennials By David A. Avila Unknown by many fans of female boxing, during the 1990s Mexico declared female prizefighting illegal for a number of years into the 21st century. Today, Mexico now has become a super power in female prizefighting. Mariana Juarez was one of […]
Katie Taylor and Delfine Persoon Next Up for Undisputed Status and More News By David A. Avila If you look carefully at Katie Taylor’s fighting style she’s adapted into a more professional mode of fighting that focuses on hitting hard. More succinctly, the Irish fighter is full-fledged a boxer-puncher. Styles make fights and when […]
Unification Battles and Other Female Fight News By David A. Avila Unification, the word, lingers in the air like a cloud of cigar smoke. Next up in the unification battle of female world titlists will be Chicago’s Jessica McCaskill and Argentina’s Anahi Sanchez vying for each other’s super lightweight belts in the USA. And […]