Tag Archives: Katie Taylor

Katie Taylor Edges Delfine Persoon In Bruising Battle in NY

Katie Taylor Edges Delfine Persoon In A Disputed Decision   By David A. Avila Undisputed may be a misnomer as Katie Taylor won by majority decision over Delfine Persoon in a bruising and brawling 10 round slugfest to win all of the major lightweight world titles on Saturday. The decision was debatable. Ireland’s Taylor (14-0, […]

PED Juicing Remains Rampant in Female Prizefighting

PED Juicing Remains Rampant in Female Boxing World   By David A. Avila Many female prizefighters are juicing. Women boxers are loading up on a variety of performance enhancement drugs with little scrutiny or fear of repercussion. Nobody knows the exact numbers but a few do not even pass the eye test for normal physiques. […]

Katie Taylor and Delfine Persoon Battle for Undisputed Status

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: McCaskill, Sanchez, Acuna and Nava

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 […]

Tiara Brown vs. Angel Gladney on Saturday in D.C.

Tiara “T Baby” Brown Fights Angel Gladney on Saturday   By David A. Avila Tiara Brown puts aside her street protecting duds and returns to the boxing ring against veteran Angel Gladney. Washington D.C. police officer Brown (7-0, 5 KOs) meets Gladney (10-14-1) at the Mystics Sports Arena in D.C. on Saturday May 18. At […]

Female Pound for Pound Rankings by The Prizefighters.com

Top 12 Pound for Pound Rankings and More Female Fight News   By David A. Avila Female prizefighting has taken giant steps in 2019. We have several unification bouts taking place with more to come. The top world champions are willing to face each other and more explosive pairings are yet to come. In this […]

Selina Barrios vs Melissa Hernandez

Seliina Barrios vs. Melissa Hernandez and More Female Fight News   By David A. Avila Texas born Selina “Aztec Queen” Barrios travels a rocky path that most professionals with less than two years-experience seldom partake. She fights anybody who wants to fight regardless of record or experience. She doesn’t worry about it. But out of […]

France’s Lethal Maiva Hamadouche

Maiva Hamadouche Could Be The Most Dangerous Fighter in Women’s Boxing   By Phil Woolever   Present days are probably the most opportune times yet for female boxers.   In this scenario specifically, women who currently campaign around the lightweight to welterweight divisions have a promising amount of talented, marketable potential opponents and a steadily […]

Claressa Shields “the One”

Claressa Shields is America’s Biggest Star and Female Fight News   By David A. Avila The regal coronation ceremony has begun for Claressa Shields the newest addition to the prestigious members of the undisputed club. Now there are two. In female prizefighting’s first true mega fight Shields showed the world with an overpowering performance that […]

Will Shields vs. Hammer Justify the Hype and Advance the Cause of Women’s Boxing?

At long last, the (mostly) undisputed Biggest Women’s Boxing Match Ever is here. Now all that remains is for the two undefeated principals — who see themselves as fighting not only to advance their own level of stardom but for the higher purpose of benefitting their gender in a sport long dominated by men — […]