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Pascal fights
in Exhibition bout with male boxer
By Kevin Bello
April 15, 2007 |
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(APR 15) UBC world super lightweight champion
Ana "Dynamite" Pascal from Panama fought a six-round exhibition bout with
former Latin-American champion Arcelio "Flash" Diaz on Friday night (April
13th), at the Las Vegas Sports Center in Barranquilla, Colombia. Pascal is
training for her six defense title, for her May 25th fight that will take
place at the Combat Colosseum..Full
Story
Regina Halmich fights Stefan Raab in rematch exhibition
March 30, 2007 |
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European TV viewers tuning in to Prosieben Fight Night
had an opportunity to
watch two reigning Women's Flyweight Champions in the ring. Regina Halmich holding the WIBF belt and Susianna Kentikian newly crowned
WBA champion. Halmich fought television personality
Stefan Raab in a six-round exhibition bout, that ended in a win for Halmich
by unanimous decision. The show drew
over nine million viewers.
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Harding Joins the ranks of fighting mixed exhibitions
January 19, 2005
Source: delawareonline.com |
(JAN 19) On January 15, 2005, in front of a few hundred people, at the New
Castle bar in Newark, Tonya “America’s Bad Girl” Harding fought a
non-boxer male, Mark Mason, a 5’2”, 125-pounder, that is also a former ice
skater.
Mason who had never donned a pair of gloves, was quickly dispatched by TKO
in the second round of a scheduled three round bout. In news sources, they
reported that Spectators shouted derogatory comments toward Harding for most
of the match. AND that Mason was picked out of a pool of 100 people, and
that in the fight Mason basically flailed haymarkers at Harding.
photos and full story on www.delewareonline.com
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Yet ANOTHER Mixed Match
turned sour! |
(OCT 17, 2003) This last week in
Curacao, Ana "Dinamita" Pascal, Panama, and a top-ranked women's boxer
fought a male boxer. Pascal, according to news sources took quite a
beating, when the fight was stopped by the ref in the fourth round.
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Media Frenzy in
Washington when MacGregor takes on Chow!
By Sue TL Fox, Ringside
October 9, 1999 |
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On October
9, 1999, the news media around the world went into a frenzy when
all reported that the mixed match scheduled to take place in
Seattle, Washington, between Margaret McGregor and Loi Chow was
a "History First"!
TL Fox covered that supposed "History First",
and it could have technically been so IF the fight would have
been classified as "sanctioned" as all previous mixed
matches from the past were "exhibitions." Regardless of
those above mentioned facts, the news media completely
ignored documented history of mixed matches to feed the
story lines to the public and misled and documented
inaccurate historical events to make the most of this Oct.
9, 1999 event......The Washington State Department
of Licensing (DOL) stated the following in a press release when
it determined that they would allow this match to take place:
"The Washington State
Department of Licensing (DOL) has determined that planning may continue
for the first professional female vs. male boxing match in Washington
State, scheduled to take place on the evening of October 9, at the Seattle
Mercer Arena. To this point, DOL has reviewed the fight records and
license applications
received, followed the law and has determined that planning may continue
with the Margaret McGregor vs. Hector Morales fight. Upon review, DOL
notified the promoter, O'Malley Productions, to continue planning for the
fight (subject to change if any of the remaining application components do
not meet licensing requirements.) The remaining requirements will continue
to be submitted to DOL up to 24 hours prior to the fight, and any
information received may alter this decision. The fight contract matches
Margaret McGregor, Bremerton, Pro Boxing fighter, 3-0, 130 lbs., vs.
Hector Morales, Vancouver, B.C., Pro Boxing debut, 130 lbs. DOL
is charged with the responsibility of reviewing bout applications to
ensure the health and safety of the fighters. The application was reviewed
according to the state Professional Athletics Act, which does not include
gender as a fight-matching factor. Applications are reviewed by DOL for
the five determining factors mandated by law: weight, skill level,
physical health test, vision exam, communicable disease blood test, and
controlled substances urinary test (WAC 36.12.240). Promoter
and fighters are required to submit all necessary application components
no later than 72 hours before the fight. Final approval is dependent on
all parties complying with application and safety requirements contained
in statute or rule."
The match did occur,
but within a few days, this mixed sanctioned boxing match was
declared an "Exhibition".
So much for being a "History First", and did the news
media ever straighten the history of mixed matches after it was
no more than a four-rounder mixed exhibition?
Uunfortunately they didn't, and left the history hanging
"inaccurately" like they have managed to do with so many other historical
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Early Reports on Mixed Boxing in 1916!
One of the earliest
documented materials that WBAN found was dated February 29, 1916. The
article stated, "Helen Hildreth, the Lady Pugilist, was having the best
of it in a mixed fight with Johnny Atkinson when Police and Boxing
Commissioner Fred Wenck jumped into the RING and ordered the fight
stopped "Grupp's Gym, N.Y.C." This is not saying that this is when mixed
matches all started, but at this time, it is the earliest documented
incident of a mixed match. |
| Joanna Hagen, a
very famous female boxer from the 50's |
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Hagen had a mixed
boxing match with Norm Jones and defeated him in a four-round
decision in Michigan City in 1952. If any boxing match
should be declared the "first" the Hagen/Jones fight
was the closest to equivalency of that honor...Hagen was also on the
Steve Allan Show and had talked about her mixed matches, which
WBAN was told she talked about four of them. This
information has not been confirmed.
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Tonawanda
TKO's her male opponent in kickboxing vs. Boxing -1975 |
In 1975, Jackie
Tonawanda made her mark in history at the Madison Square
Garden, in New York, when she took on a Kickboxer Larry Rodania.
Tonawanda KO'd Rodania in the second round. Tonawanda believed
that doing this exhibition, she would gain her much needed New
York boxing license that was being denied, by the New York
commission, but the matchup did not further her cause.
Along with two other women boxers, Lady
Tyger Trimiar and Cathy "Cat" Davis who were also
trying in vain to get the right to fight in New York.
WBAN has full articles and
fight photos of this event archived.
Marion Bermudez, probably the most noted
past fighter to mix it up with men in the ring-1975
One headliner said, "Woman Boxer BEATS MALE
RIVAL In Golden Gloves, dated July 1975". The article goes on to
say, "Miss Marion Bermudez, 23, connects with a long right
to the face of Edwardo Parras en route to scoring a first-round
technical knockout victory in the Phoenix Golden Gloves
tourney. Fighting in the 125-pound novice class, the
Arizona State University engineering senior is the first female
boxer to score a victory in a nationally sanctioned tournament
in the United States."
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The Jolene Blackshear/Jeremy Powell
match up was a four-round exhibition. The fight was televised, and
showed rounds 2, 3, and 4. Jeremy wore a headgear, Jolene didn't.
Jeremy Powell was an amateur boxer, about 15 lbs heavier than Jolene.
He also had substantial reach on Jolene. The three rounds were full of
kicks and spinning backfists, and punches from both. Neither looked
like they were going full force, but Jolene was the aggressor, Jeremy
the counter-puncher. Through this three rounds, the
commentators (Blinky Rodriguez was one of them) kept re-enforcing the
fact that it was only an exhibition and one of them commented that the
fight was not being scored. They also commented that Jolene was
showing her skills of a champion, and made a comment about Jeremy
dropping his hands. Jolene was successful with hitting Jeremy with
just about every "spinning backfist" that she threw. Blinky
also made positive comments about women fighting in the ring, (not
against men), but being able to do this sport. Blinky also said that
this was Jolene's first time in her career against a male. (Not
including her training in the gym that includes fighting males in
daily training). At the end of the fight, Herb Cody raises both
of their hands in victory. One commentator said that if the fight
had been scored Jolene would have been ahead, but the bottom line
is this, Jeremy appeared to be holding back his kicks and punches,
he was much bigger than Jolene. So there was no winner---this was
an exhibition
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Many
boxing fans have been interested in this mixed match and have
inquired many times about these fighters..
One Boxing fan
wrote in and said, "I saw it when it
was on national cable, and he really took a BEATING! He was
acting so cocky and in the end, after getting knocked down from
a WICKED body kick, he REFUSED to come out of his corner. He was
beat and exhausted mentally and physically by little
Yvonne." Of any of the male/female bouts I have seen,
this particular match appeared that both fighters were giving it
their all to win the bout. WBAN has this fight on
video.
**Even though WBAN has a copy of this fight on video, it is not for sale.
WBAN does not own any rights to the video.
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Mixed Boxing Trivia! |
In November of 1982, it was documented in the New York Times, that after the legality of boxing matches between women and men was argued by
the American Civil Liberties Union, the five-member board of the California Athletic
Commission voted to approve professional boxing matches between the sexes effective immediately. ''We had no recourse but to approve it,'' said Don
Fraser, the commission's executive officer. ''To my knowledge there is only one woman interested in fighting men -and that's
Shirley Tucker of Santa Rosa, who is in the 120-pound division.'' Fraser added that he didn't know of any
men willing to fight women. Shirley
Tucker never did fight a male, after fighting for the right to do so
in 1982.......
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EVEN TL FOX MIXES
IT UP WITH MALE OPPONENTS!
Fox said, "There was one exhibition I wish I had
never done that was against my karate Instructor...A local TV crew was
filming me for a feature story in 1976. I kicked him in the mouth,
snapped both of his front teeth off the roots, cut his lip that needed
stitches... and the TV Crew made it worst when they handed him a
business card, asking him to call the station as soon as he found out
how many stitches he would take on his mouth..!"
$3,000 later, Fox's Instructor had his mouth fixed! Fox paid half of the
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Regina Halmich vs. Stefan Raab On March 22, 2001,
Regina Halmich joined the ranks of mixed boxing on WBAN.
Some said it was a joke, others took it seriously, and at the
end Raab was reported to have had a broken nose the following
day of the five-round exhibition bout.
To read all the details of this mixed match, go here!
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