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J'Marie Moore
was the FIRST daughter to turn pro! Very few knew about Moore until the HYPE came out
about the other daughters! Moore made a History's First!
| J'Marie Moore, This is from The News
and Observer Publishing Company, Raleigh, North Carolina from 27th June, 1997.
The daughters of famous male boxers have
arrived in the year 2000. The public first took notice to the
new development in women's boxing when Laila Ali said that she was going
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FAMILY AFFAIR: Archie Moore, the world
light-heavyweight champion of the '50s, is back in the ring at age 83.
Moore's youngest daughter, J'Marie will make her professional debut tonight in the 2,200-seat showroom at the Tropicana
Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., with her legendary father in her corner.
J'Marie, a 5-foot-10 1/2, 170-pounder, will fight in the women's light
-heavyweight division on a non-televised card.
| Laila Ali made her ring debut on
October 8, 1999, at the Turning
Stone Casino Convention Center on the Oneida Indian Nation,
in Verona, New York. Her opponent, April Fowler, was a 0-1 fighter, who worked as a waitress.
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Shortly
after Laila Ali began getting
massive news media coverage world-wide, Jacqueline
Frazier-Lyde who was quickly given the name of "Sister Smoke" by her father's
rival Muhammad Ali announced her entry into women's pro boxing. She got a
license, a promoter, and two trainers. An attorney by professional and a
38 year old mother of three, decided to declare war on Laila Ali.
| As the media hype continued with
Laila Ali and Jacqui Frazier.... news spread that we had another daughter
coming on the scene! Roberto Duran (one of TL's most favorite male
boxers of all time) had a 23 year old daughter who
wanted to become a boxer! More on Jacqui Frazier |
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| Irichelle Duran,
a bantamweight, had decided to
get her share of the pie and join the ranks of
Muhammad Ali's Daughter, Laila, and Joe Frazier's
Daughter |
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Her father was not speaking to her for
about a week after she broke the news to him! Irichelle Duran, the daughter of Roberto
Duran, made her pro debut on August 4, 2000. She fought Geradine
Iglesias at the Hardrock Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Duran lost her pro debut, but has won her second professional fight, and
is now 1-1-0.
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Shortly
thereafter, George
Foreman's daughter, 23-year-old, Freeda Foreman decided enter
the ring. Freeda was scheduled to have her pro debut on April 1st,
but on March 30, she canceled out on her pro debut, due to illness. |
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Freeda
said in one interview, "My goal is to change history and knock Laila out,"
Freeda said recently. "It's not revenge, but the opportunity is
there for me." Freeda's father, George Foreman is not
real happy about her deciding on boxing. Freeda
is a single mom with a 4-year-old child. She is signed
with promoter Dan Goossen of America Presents. Foreman has not been training very long,
and her father said something to the affect that his other four daughters
could outbox her. Unfortunately years later Freeda ended her life by
suicide.
| Just recently, we have a fifth daughter entering the
ring. She is
Swedish fighter, Maria Johansson, 34, the daughter of Ingemar
"Ingo" Johansson, who had arrived in New York on 27th
April 1959 and two months later he became the heavyweight world champion.
On June 18, 2000, Father's Day, |
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Maria Johansson
had her pro debut against experienced Karrie Frye
(Super-Middleweight). She lost by a four-round split decision we to Frye, bringing her
record to 5-1 (4KO). Maria is now 0-1. Maria
fought Karen Bill on June 18, 2000 and the fight was stopped in the
second round, she is now 2-0.
| Eliza Olson,
5'5", 146 lbs., resides in Downey, California, won her
last bout on December 19, 2001, in Oroville, California
against Reyna Soriano 1-0 (1KO), and advanced her
record to 5-1-0 (2 KO). Olson is now ranked #11 as a
welterweight. Olson trains with one of the top boxing
trainers Freddie Roach, and is managed by
legendary Don Chargin. |
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Grand-Daughter of late former Middleweight
boxing champion Carl "BoBo" Olson, who past
away 1/16/02 in Honolulu, Hawaii at age 72. Olson, who
fought all the greats in a golden era of boxing, compiled a
career record of 99-16-2 with 49 KOs. He retired in 1966 to
live in Sacramento,
Calif., for about 20 years, working for a time as a physical
fitness coach in a gym and also briefly was a trainer of
former junior-welterweight contender Sal Lopez Jr., older
brother of Tony Lopez, the former three-time world
junior-lightweight and lightweight
champion. Contributor:
Steve Roper, California
Dated 2003 |
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