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At the Scales in Germany!
February 28, 2014 |
(FEB 28)
Today in Germany the weigh-in took place for tomorrow night's boxing
action at the GETEC Arena, Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.
Christina Hammer, weighed in at 158.9, and her opponent, Jessica Balogun,
156.5. The two will be fighting for the WBF and WBO middleweight
title. In another mainliner, Robert Stieglitz, 168, Arthur
Abraham, 168, for a WBO su middle title. TV: ESPN3
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Cool Story of the Week: "Queens of
the Ring" Coming soon!
by Sue TL Fox
February 27, 2014
Photos: XEX |
(FEB 27) In what is one of WBAN's
"Cool" Stories of the week, we have learned that Amanda and
Cindy Serrano from New York was recently featured in a 12-page
spread for a high fashion magazine called XEX.
Some great news followed that featured photo shoot. Amanda
Serrano told WBAN, "I have some great news, as you know or
seen in our pictures we shot a 12-page spread for the high end
fashion magazine called XEX.....Full
Story
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Sulem Urbina Reflects on Winning Gold
at the 2014 Independence Cup
Source/PR
February 27, 2014
Photo: Ron Valderrama |
(FEB 27)MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – Twenty-three year old amateur boxer,
Sulem Urbina, a Mexican born, U.S. resident, returned to her Team Mexico
training camp in Mexico City after winning a gold medal in the 112 lb/51
kg division at the Independence Cup Amateur National Championships. The
international competition tournament, which included participants from
Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, United States, Brazil, and Mexico, was
held February 10-February 14, 2014, at the amphitheater located on the
campus of the Universidad Technologica de Santiago (UTESA) in Santiago,
Dominican Republic. ....Full
Story
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Latest Updates for WBAN in 2014 -
Historical Database, IWBHF, Master Search, Free Records site..and
More!
by Sue TL Fox
February 24, 2014
photo: Sue Fox |
(FEB 24) WBAN has made more
strides in 2014, than any other year in the sport. Going
on over 15 years on the net, and having the FIRST-EVER history
of Women's Boxing on WBAN, first published in May of 1998, of
events that happened that the public had no idea about---we have
now made a complete
HISTORICAL DATABASE on the history of women's boxing,
that is worldwide, ever-changing, and will continue to grow as time goes
on to any and everything that has happen in female boxing. The
site..Full Story
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Two Female Bouts on Card in Georgia
Source/Bonnie Canino
February 24, 2014 |
(FEB 24) On March 1, 2014, on the
"Atlanta Fight Night" card, at the North Atlanta Trade Center,
in Norcross, Georgia, there will be two female bouts on the
card. In one bout, Melissa "Huracan" Hernandez, 18-5-3
(6KO), of Miami Beach, Florida, will jump up a tad bit in weight
to fight Nicole Wood, 11-12-3 (3KO), of Stone Mountain, Georgia.
This will be a rematch for these two, when in 2012, Hernandez
won a 10-round unanimous decision over Woods...Full
Story
(FEB 24) WBAN has just posted the video in our Video Catalog of hundreds
of fights. In Puebla, Mexico, Mariana Juarez won a 10-round unanimous
decision over Melissa McMorrow. Juarez won the WBC
International..videos
Huge
photo Gallery
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WBAN's Hot Prospects of the Year Step
up to the plate to fight each other!
by Sue TL Fox
February 21, 2014 |
(FEB 21) WBAN is happy to report
that we have a "hot" top matchup taking place on February 28,
2014 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, in San Diego, California, when
Noemi "La Rebelde" Bosques, 4-0-1 (1KO), of St. Petersburg,
Florida, travels clear across the United States to fight Kenia
Enriquez, 9-0-0 (5KO), of Tijuana, Mexico, in the co-main event in a
six-rounder on this card. Promotion of event Bobby D Presents;
Tickets: 619-420-8866....Full
Story
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Final Press Conference in Mexico:
Juarez-McMorrow
Photos and story by
Pepe Rodriguez/WBC
February 21, 2014 |
(FEB 21) Super-flyweight champion
Melissa McMorrow (9-3, 1 KOs) of Palo Alto, California, USA and
former WBC world champion Mariana Juarez (38-7, 16 KOs) of
Mexico City met Thursday afternoon at the Yak Casino of Plaza
las Palmas in Puebla, Mexico for their final press conference.
...Full
Story
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Melissa McMorrow spars with Jamie
Mitchell in preparation for Juarez battle
by Blanca Gutierrez
February 19, 2014 |
(FEB 19) Last Saturday at
the B Street Gym in San Mateo, California, world champion "Mighty"
Melissa McMorrow had her last sparring session before she left
for Puebla, Mexico, in her anticipation to fight Mariana
"Barbie" Juarez on February 22, 2014. Top heavyweight pro boxer Martha
Salazar and I met PAL and Beautiful Brawlers champion Jamie
Mitchell to work her corner against the tough McMorrow...Full
Story
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July 7 - 12: 2014 Women's National Golden Gloves
in Florida
by Bonnie Canino
February 19, 2014 |
(FEB 19) There will be Open
and Novice division at this tournament. Get the boxing
experience you need or just come watch this 4 days box off and
see who is the Women's Golden Gloves Champion. Ages division 15
to master. We will have the Golden Girls Championship, ages 9 to
14 years old at the same venue. ..Full
Details
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Ava Knight and Brandy Badry Spar
Together at the Mayweather Gym
Photos and story
by Mary Ann Owen
February 19, 2014 |
(FEB 19) Yesterday at the famous
Floyd Mayweather gym in Las Vegas, WBC Champ Ava Knight sparred
with Brandy Badry, 1,5-0, in a workout session. Badry is
in preparation for an upcoming fight against pro debuter Laura
McPhee at the Loins Arena, in Spyfield, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The fight will take place on March 8th. ...Full
Story with Photos
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Women's World Championships Set for
November 13-25th in Jeju Island, KOREA
by Michael O'Neill
February 18, 2014 |
(FEB 18) As we predicted earlier this year , the 8th Edition of the
AIBA Womens World Championships is set for Korea. The brief announcement
from AIBA Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland read: "The International
Boxing Association (AIBA) is pleased to announce that the 2014 AIBA
Women's World Championships will be organised in the city of Jeju, Korea
between November 13 and November 25,in conjunction with the AIBA
Congress. Full
Story
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Muñoz vs. Graf was officially
announced -Report and Photos
by Pepe Rodriguez/WBC
February 17, 2014 |
(FEB 17)
This afternoon was the press conference for Saturday March 1th
"SANGRE MEXIQUENSE" card at the World Trade Center of Naucalpan,
State of Mexico, Mexico. The headliner of this event will feature a
rematch between Alesia Graf vs. Zulina "Loba" Muñoz. The two
will be battling WBC super-flyweight..Full
Story
(FEB 17) WBAN has just posted the latest fight video. On Saturday
at the Club Jacobo Urso, Buenos Aires, Argentina, flyweight Paola Benavidez,
making her pro debut after having a successful amateur career, won a four-rounder by unanimous decision over
Alejandra Maria de Lujan Rios.
Video
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Boxing: Five weights for Women at
Inaugural European Games in Baku 2015
by Michael O'Neill
February 17, 2014 |
(FEB 17) Women boxers in Europe can look forward to FIVE weights at
the inaugural European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2015. Though
no confirmation yet from the sport’s Governing body, AIBA, WBAN.com
understands that for the first time in a major boxing tournament there
will be five and not three weight classifications in Baku. ..Full
Story
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I'll mow down the gringa: Barbie
Juarez
Report and photos by
Pepe Rodriguez/WBC
February 16, 2014 |
(FEB 16) Before her travel
to the City of Puebla, Mexico, World Boxing Council (WBC)
international super-flyweight champion, Mariana “Barbie” Juarez,
did her last training at the Golden Boy Gym in Mexico City,
where she also shared with the WBC International Silver
heavyweight champion Manuel “Diamond Boy” Charr, who is visiting
Mexico on the occasion of the election of our president Mauricio
Sulaiman....Full
Story
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Two Female Fights Featured on Card in
Hungary
by JollyDee
Photos: Bilics "Bill" József
February 16, 2014 |
(FEB 16) On Saturday night the
boxing gala held in Lurdy Shopping House, Budapest, Hungary two
female bouts being staged. The former amateur World- and
European championship medalist Csilla Némedi-Varga 112 1/4, (2-0-0
1KO) is now the second professional super-flyweight bout won the
unanimous decision against the former multiple world
championship challenger Gabriella Insperger 110, (4-13-0 3KO). Insperger knocked down twice in the bout and judges scoring
40-34, 40-33, 40-33. ..Full
Story
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Sulem Urbina Soto Wins Gold at
the Independent Cup in the Dominican Republic
February 15, 2014 |
(FEB 15) Yesterday WBAN learned that
amateur boxer Sulem Urbina Soto won a Gold Medal at the Independence Cup in
Santiago, Dominican Republic. We would like to give a congratulations
to this talented boxer who has been making great strides in the sport!
Sue TL Fox Photo: Facebook
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Five United States Boxers Advance to the Championship Round at the
2014 Independence Cup
by Julie Goldsticker
February 14, 2014 |
Five American boxers will compete
for gold today at the Independence Cup in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
For the second straight day, all of the American boxers competing in
tournament action won their bouts, marking nine consecutive victories
for the U.S. squad. Male
..Full
Story
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Christina Hammer to Defend her WBF
Title
Source/Press Release
February 14, 2014 |
(FEB 14) WBF World Middleweight
Champion Christina Hammer is set to make her seventh title-defence
on March 1, 2014, at the GETEC Arena in Magdeburg, Germany.
Still only 23 years old, Dortmund’s undefeated Hammer (16-0, 8
KOs) will take on another German in 24-year-old former world
champion Jessica Balogun (23-2, 11 KOs) from Aachen, who
curiously goes by the nickname “The Hammer”. ..Full
Story
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Hardy Split-Decisions Fuentes at
Roseland
by Bernie McCoy
Photos by Christy Cappillino
February 13, 2014 |
(FEB 13) Heather Hardy won her eighth straight professional bout on
Wednesday night, but it wasn't easy. The undefeated Brooklyn super
bantamweight eked out a razor thin split decision over a game,
aggressive Cristina Fuentes in the feature bout of a nine fight DiBella
Entertainment card at the historic Roseland Ballroom, which will be
razed in the Spring, in the name of progress, to make room for one more
skyscraper to dot the skyline of mid town Manhattan. Boxing may be gone
from Roseland and Roseland may soon be gone from 52nd St, but Hardy and
Fuentes provided one final fistic memory for the sellout crowd that
witnessed their eight round bout...Full
Story
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Three U.S. Boxers Advance in
Independence Cup Competition in the Dominican Republic
by Julie Goldsticker
February 12, 2014 |
(FEB 12)
(COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – Three
American boxers opened 2014 international action in victorious
fashion at the 2014 Independence Cup in Santiago, Dominican
Republic. Male lightweight Genaro
Gamez (San
Diego, Calif.), female lightweight Queen
Underwood (Seattle,
Wash.), and male light welterweight Abraham
Nova (Albany,
N.Y.) all earned preliminary victories in the international
event to advance in tournament action.
Full Story
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The Shakers and the Movers in Women's
Boxing! Check out the latest video on these two!
by Sue TL Fox
February 11, 2014 |
(FEB 11) Earlier today WBAN
received news that a video that Amanda "The Real Deal" Serrano
and Cindy "Checkmate" Serrano were featured in a music video.
Team Serrano told WBAN, "As everyone affiliated with women's
boxing knows that because the lack of acceptance in our sport
many get discouraged and then retire or quit."
Full Story with video
link
(FEB 11) On Sunday at Chuncheon Gymnasium,
in Chuncheon, South Korea, 19 year old Mako Yamada from Japan won a
split decision over WBO minimumweight champion Su-Yon Hong. 97-93,
96-94, 96-97. Mako Yamada was crowned Japan's first female WBO
world champion. Samart
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Video Catalog Added to Master Search!
By Sue TL Fox
February 10, 2014 |
(FEB 10) I am thrilled to
announce that we have a big addition to
Master Search, that will have a video catalog with
fights that happen around the world and are on the net,
Video Catalog. The videos on Master Search
are also categorized into individual years. Dee
Williams, the creator of Master Search, has also created this
excellent extension of the boxers records ..Full
Story
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Myriam Lamare Announces Retirement
by Bernie McCoy
February 7, 2014 |
(FEB 7) Myriam Lamare has announced her retirement from the boxing
ring after more than ten years and twenty- six bouts in which the French
welterweight fought every top boxer in her weight class, winning
twenty-two times. Those are the statistics. But mere numbers don't begin
scratch the surface of capturing just how skilled and compelling a
fighter Lamare was over the entirety of her career. And that career was
not distracted by collateral footnotes outside the ring, the type of
notoriety that, sometimes today, seeks to provide a substitute for...Full
Story
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AIBA Confirm Qualification Process
for Rio 2016
by Michael O'Neill
February 7, 2014 |
(FEB 7) The 'amateur' sport's governing body ,International Boxing
Association (AIBA) has just announced the qualification process for the
XXXI Olympiad in Rio 2016. As we already know sadly there will
only be the same three weights for women as in London 2012. That said be
sure that the WBAN Campaign for Equality will continue apace. ...Full
Story
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Full Fight Video:
Lindsay Garbatt vs. Xu Chun Yan
February 6, 2014
Photo: Boxenplus |
(FEB 6) WBAN has just posted the full fight video of the Lindsay
Garbatt vs. Xu Chun bout that took place last night. Yan won a
10-rounder for the vacant WBC International Featherweight championship over
Lindsay Garbatt. A Special thanks to Raquel Ruiz who posted the link
on Twitter.
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An Up-and-Close Story by Amateur
Boxer!
By Michelle Pasch
February 5, 2014 |
(FEB 5) I love the sport of boxing. Something I share alongside my
Father. A sport I grew up watching with my Dad as a child. I was able to
enjoy the sport mostly through the televised matches during the Olympics
or on the odd occasion that "The Wide World of Sports" had matches
playing on the weekends. Full
Story
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New Boxer on the Scene: Latontria
Jones in Vegas!
Photos/Source
by Mary Ann Owen
February 5, 2014 |
(FEB 5) Yesterday at the
Mayweather Boxing Gym, in Las Vegas, Nevada, photographer Mary
Ann Owen took a visit to the gym and met up with Latondria "Ton"
Jones, an undefeated amateur boxer on the scene. WBAN will be
posting her biography soon.
Full
Story
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Here is a tough one---Who do you
think will win this fight?
February 3, 2014 |
(FEB 3) This Friday night, Gretchen Abaniel, 13-5-0 (4KO), fighting for a
world title in a 10-rounder, will be fighting a boxer from Thailand that has
two fights on her record, winning a pro debuter in her last fight, and
winning a 0-1-0 boxer---in two six round bouts and she is already fighting
for a title!
All the
details on Boxrec
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Gulyas with 27 fights as a pro
fighting pro debuter?
February 3, 2014 |
(FEB 3) This Friday night, Marianna Gulyas, 11-16-0 (2KO), of
Hungary, is set to fight in Munich, Bayern, Germany, against a pro debuter
Xenia Jorneau, of Munich, Germany. The two will be fighting a
four-rounder, and Gulyas will be fighting a hometowner by taking on Jorneau.
If Gulyas cannot defeat a pro debuter, she may want to re-think what she is
doing in the sport.
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Updated Report: Oscar Gonzalez
Condition after receiving a Brain Injury Last Night
Photo/Source
by
Pepe Rodriguez/WBC
February 2, 2014
(Revised) |
WBAN has just gotten an update on Oscar Gonzalez who received a
severe brain injury
last night
at the Polanco Forum of Mexico City when he was stopped in the
tenth round. In the local news they report the following (translated):
"The Mexican boxer Oscar ....Full
Story
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Braekhus retains WBC, WBA & WBO
titles
Source/PR
Photo/Wende
February 2, 2014 |
(FEB 2)
Cecilia Braekus (24-0, 7 KOs) defeated Myriam Lamare (22-4, 10
KOs) at the Nordic Fight Night in Frederikshavn, Denmark to
retain her WBC, WBA & WBO Female Welterweight titles. The pound-for-pound number one put on a dominant performance to
earn a unanimous decision victory over Lamare, who was floored
in the seventh round but able to last the distance......Full
Story
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Maribel Ramirez Wins by a Close
Split!
Photos/Story
by Pepe Rodriguez
February 2, 2014 |
(FEB 2) Mexican champion light
flyweight Esmeralda "La Joya" Moreno, now 25-7-1 (9KO), of
Mexico City, lost by a close split decision in what was a
bloody battle against Maribel "Pantera" Ramirez this
Saturday night at the Polanco Forum of Mexico City.
Full
Story
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Latest Update:
International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame!
February 2, 2014 |
(FEB 2) WBAN announced that in 2014, we were excited about
creating a new organization the INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S BOXING
HALL OF FAME (IWBHF). We have just opened up a Facebook on the
IWBHF, and invite you to visit it. WBAN will have the
website up for the IWBHF in the near future. IWBHF
on Facebook ..Full
Story
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Exciting Night of Women's Boxing
Action in Mexico!
February 2, 2014 |
(FEB 2) On Friday night, January 31, 2014, on the “Kings and Queens”
live professional boxing card, at the Caliente Racetrack, in Tijuana,
Mexico, there were three female bouts on the card. In the mainliner,
20-year old flyweight Kenia Enriquez, 111¼, of Tijuana, now 9-0 (5KO),
remained undefeated when she won by a first round TKO [1:16] over the
previously undefeated Selene Lopez, 111¼, 3-1-3 (1KO), of Los Mochis,
Sinaloa. The fight was scheduled for six rounds.
Enriquez was named WBAN’s top ten “Hot
Prospects” of 2013....Full
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Ana Laura Esteche: WBAN's
February 2014 Fighter of the Month!
February 2, 2014 |
(FEB 2) WBAN would like to congratulate Ana Laura Esteche, who was our
top pick for the February 2014 Fighter of the month. Esteche delivered
Monica Silva Acosta her first loss when she defeated Acosta on January 18th
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two fought a 10-rounder for the WBA
world title belt.
