Brooklyn’s Heather Hardy Returns and other fight chatter – Undefeated Heather “the Heat” Hardy returns to the ring with her small army of followers. The Brooklyn-based prizefighter is one of a growing number of female boxers in the country who can attract a large fan base to one of her bouts. Normally a super bantamweight, […]
TIJUANA, MEXICO-WBA minimum weight champion Anabel Ortiz (21-3, 4KO) of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, survived a knockdown to stop veteran Jolene Blackshear (9-8, 4KO) of San Diego, CA, at the end of the eighth round of a scheduled ten to defend her title for the seventh time on Saturday. The good-action championship bout was the […]
Former flyweight champion Mariana “Barbie” Juarez (43-8-3, 17KO) announced her intentions to climb up to the bantamweight division in her next scheduled bout and look for a title at the 118-pound limit. The announcement was made during the weekly World Boxing Council (WBC) weekly press conference held at their offices in Mexico City last Tuesday. The […]
Layla McCarter Wins in Mexico – It’s no secret that in the land of pyramids female prizefighting has taken root and flourished to the nth degree. Layla “The Amazing” McCarter knows this so she accepted an offer to travel to Mexico to soak in the atmosphere, meet the people and perform inside the boxing ring. […]