LAS VEGAS, NV -- This week we are
featuring our 2025 International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame
Inductee, Australian Diana Prazak
who will be honored and celebrated April 4-5, 2025, at the
Orleans Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Prazak is
one of 20 our elite 2025 IWBHF Inductees, and we are featuring
her this week in anticipating our up coming IWBHF Event.
Prazak is a retired multi-world
champion, with many world title belts to her credit.
Prazak made history for WBAN when she won the WBAN P4P
Independent belt in 2013 in the country of Sweden.
She is the fourth IWBHF inductee who has won the elite WBAN P4P
belt to be inducted into the IWBHF. Prior to her upcoming
induction, we have previously inducted Holly Holm, Myriam Lamare,
and Ann Sophie Mathis.
Prazak was trained by one of the
best, Lucia Rijker, who was known in her prime as a professional
boxer as "The Most Dangerous Woman in the World", and was
featured in the Oscar-Winning movie of the year, "Million Dollar
Baby" in 2005. Rijker is also one of our past IWBHF
Inductees,inducted in 2014, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Prazak said about how she got
into the sport,
"I fell in love with boxing when I started boxing to lose weight and get
fit. I got a bit addicted to it and after a while they (BoxingFit)
had a bit of trouble getting rid of me. I told (trainer) Mick
Hargraves that this is it. I want to box. I'm loving this".
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About the Upcoming IWBHF Event:
The International Women’s Boxing
Hall of Fame “Night of the Stars II” is returning to Las Vegas,
Nevada in the 12th year of honoring and inducting the top Elite
Athletes and those who work outside the ring on (Friday, Saturday) April 4-5, 2025, a two-day event at the
Orleans Hotel & Casino!
The first day of our
event, Friday, on April 4, 2025, in the Salon Ballroom from 1:00
p.m. to 4:00 p.m. is a day filled with honoring and
celebrating our Special Award Recipients. We will be
honoring our first responders, "WOMEN COPS WHO BOX", that
include twelve (12) female boxers that have worked in law
enforcement either presently or in the past.
The "Women Cops Who Box" Special Award
Recipients are the following:
Melissa Cooper,
Alex Love, Tracy Byrd, Stephanie Han, Terri Moss, Ann
Marie Carrizales, Kathy Williams, Kyana Williams, Melanie Costa,
Nora Daigle, Nisa Rodriguez, and Irma Garcia Tor. We also
have other Special Awards to be awarded this day.
The Induction ceremony/Dinner event will take place on Saturday,
April 5, 2025
In the Mardi-Gra Ballroom, where we will
celebrate our IWBHF Inductees, and some special award
recipients, and on our Pre-celebration that will take place on
Friday, April 4, 2025, we celebrate our special award recipients
that are the “Women Cops Who Box” and special awards for our
pioneer trailblazers.
Our elite IWBHF class of 2025 includes the following:
Jackie
Nava, retired multi-world champion, Mexico; Vaia Zaganas,
retired multi-world champion, Canada, Kina Malpartida, retired
multi-world champion, defending her belt five times, Peru,
living in the USA: Jennifer Han, retired world champion, USA;
Shelly Vincent, retired multi-world champion, USA; Helga Risoy,
pre-modern boxer, 1990’s, Norway; Diana Prazak, retired
multi-world champion, Australia, lives in USA; Kara Ro, retired
world champion, Canada; Frida Wallberg, retired world champion,
Sweden; Kathy Williams, retired world champion, Canada; Yvonne Caples, retired world champion, India, lives in USA;
Jolene
Blackshear, retired world champion, USA; Yessica Chavez, retired
world champion, Mexico; Stephanie Jaramillo, pre-modern boxer,
pre 2004, USA; Jill Matthews, retired multi-world champion,
pre-modern boxer 1990’s, USA; Carlette Ewell, retired
multi-world champion, USA; Yvonne Barkley, Pioneer female boxer
from the 1970s-1980s, USA; Linda Platt, pioneer, one of the
first females as a high-profile photographer; and Don King and
Diane Fischer, long-time boxing promoters, USA. Lastly,
our
2025 Lifetime Achievement Award
recipient is Daisy
Lang, of Bulgaria! Daisy was inducted into the IWBHF
in 2017. Other Special award recipients: Pat
Orr, Chevelle Hallback, Patricia Trejo, Brentnoll Bovell,
Leaping Lena, and Margaret McGregor.
Special Rates with Block of Rooms at the
Host Hotel - The Orleans Hotel & Casino
Please make sure to
book your room soon as we have a special rate for our block of
rooms
and with the back-to-back events---you can book your room
at one time if planning to also attend the two-day event of the WBC
Women's Convention
that takes place two days prior to our IWBHF event. (Their
details will follow soon...)
IWBHF Tickets, Go
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Just to let you know,
the WBC Women's Convention is back to back with our event! The WBC said, “The World Boxing Council joins WBAN in this unprecedented
celebration of Women’s Boxing by holding the WBC Women’s
Convention at the Orleans on April 2nd and 3rd, 2025. Mark the
dates and get ready to rumble! Together we’re stronger! “ As the WBC states, "Mark your dates"
by having the WBC Women's Convention on April 2-3, 2025 at the Orleans Hotel &
Casino, and our event that follows on April 4-5, 2025---it will be
fun-packed and a great gathering of many "Night of the Stars"
legends and more!
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