(JUNE 25)  There is a little bit of history that has not been discussed much that occurred in the 1970's to early 1980's, and it is not about a female boxer or boxers----it is about a past photographer that captured women's boxing in the 1970s-1980s when few cared about covering the sport.  His name is  Alastair Segerdal (he passed away in the early 2000's) .  Alastair covered women's boxing when ever and where ever he could be at events or in the gym,  in and out of the United States.   

Photo of Alastair Segerdal in 1985

When I initially published WBAN on the Internet in May of 1998, my ultimate goal and determination was to give the long forgotten pioneer female boxers a place in history that had been completely ignored and to acknowledge our sisters from the past in the sport--- to shed light on their stories, their struggles, and triumphs.

Alastair Segerdal sparring with Susan Atkins (Catkins) in the
UK in April 3, 1992 - Copyrights:  WBAN

In my research of women’s boxing that began in 1996, I came across a gentleman by the name of Alastair Segerdal. Of what I read about Alastair, he was one of the contributors of women’s boxing in the late 1970’s and 1980’s. From reading about his adventures of traveling across the continent to cover women’s boxing, I became intrigued by this man and I wanted to find and talk with him about his involvement in the sport.  Three years later I received the opportunity…Interview.

Alastair Segerdal, had come across WBAN on the Internet, and was surprised to see that I had already paid homage to his contributions and had a featured story that he had published in 1979 when he covered the first all-women’s boxing card in the world, where he took photos of that event.

After we began talking with each other,  Alastair  sent some original photos of that "History First" of the all-women’s boxing card and other photos, that featured many of the top women boxers of the past.

One August 27, 2001,  I received an email from him in regards, to all the past photos and negatives he took of women's boxing with the following: 

"Good to hear you'd like the slides. My brother says make sure you purchase a good negative scanner. He also tells me that, in addition to scanning color slides, you can scan black & white negatives and convert them to the positive image. So, this prompts me to ask: Maybe you'd like my B & W negatives of, not just the LGIS girls, but the Karen Bennett, Shirley  Tucker, Lousie Loo, etc. negatives, some prints of which I've already sent to you. In other words, my
whole B & W negative collection. I feel that by donating them to you I am donating to a worthwhile cause, thus making sure my pictures are not lost forever on the winds of history. The only negs missing from my collection are those that I foolishly loaned to xxxxx,  some three or four years back, and he said he'd return them but never did. It'd be great if you could locate xxxxx and get those negs back."

Unfortunately I received another email down the road, that he was ill and anticipating that he would not make it too much longer.  He and I agree for WBAN to purchase the photos, and he had sent and then others that he packaged up for me and sent hard copies.   I will post some of his photos he took in the past.

It is like people as Alastair Segerdal who had helped build the past history of women's boxing and he will not be forgotten.

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