Tag Archives: Melissa St. Vil

Eva Wahlstrom vs Ronica Jeffrey in Las Vegas and More Fight News

Las Vegas Hosts WBC World Title Fight Wahlstrom vs Jeffrey and more Female Fight News   By David A. Avila In the heart of Las Vegas two top notch female prize fights including a world title match take place on Friday Aug. 2, and will be free to the public compliments of Roy Jones Jr. […]

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 […]

Katie Taylor, Lourdes Juarez, Tiara Brown and More

Katie Taylor, Lourdes Juarez, Tiara Brown and More Female Fight News   By David A. Avila Ireland’s extremely talented Katie Taylor looks to unify the lightweight world championship with a head-to-head clash against Brazil’s little known Rose Volante. Fans of the female fight world are hoping it’s an entertaining match. WBA, IBF titlist Taylor (12-0, […]

Delfine Persoon Beats St. Vil; Is Katie Taylor Next?

Delfine Persoon Calmly Dismantles Melissa St. Vil to Retain WBC Title   By Phil Woolever   Delphine Persoon only displays her game face when it’s time to get down to business.   It was business time again on Saturday night in the XPO center at Kortrijk, Belgium where Persoon defended her WBC Lightweight belt  with […]

Melissa St. Vil vs. Delfine Persoon for WBC Title

Delfine Persoon Faces Melissa St Vil  in Belgium   By Phil Woolever   Highly regarded Delfine Persoon, 42-1 (17 KO) makes the 9th  defense of her WBC lightweight belt this Saturday night in her native Belgium, against the solid US challenger Melissa St. Vil, 11-3-4 (1 KO).   Both fighters looked relaxed and cordial during […]

Melissa St. Vil Goes to Belgium and More Female Fight News

Melissa St.Vil Lands in Belgium for WBC Title Challenge   By David A. Avila Brooklyn’s Melissa St. Vil has already arrived in Europe and if you know anything about the Haitian-American fighter, the country of Belgium is in for a surprise. St. Vil (11-3-4) challenges WBC lightweight titlist Delfine Persoon (42-1) on Saturday March 9, […]

Mikaela Mayer vs Mexico’s Yareli Larios on Friday

Mikaela Mayer Faces Mexico’s Tough Yareli Larios on Friday on ESPN Card   By David A. Avila Southern California’s Mikaela Mayer’s hunting for a world title in 2019 and the search party begins with Mexico’s Yareli Larios. NABF super featherweight titlist Mayer (9-0, 4 KOs) meets Larios (13-1-1, 3 KOs) the daughter of a two-time […]

A Wish List 2019 Part 2: Nava, Juarez, Hardy, Bopp and More

A Wish List 2019 Part II   With the advent of new applications to view professional boxing, ESPN+ and DAZN, as well as staples such as Showtime, at least in the United States there have been more platforms for female boxing.  For the sport to expand the fights the fans want to see need to […]

Lou DiBella Doubles Down on Female Prizefighting

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 […]