This Saturday, April 25th, the Buckhead Fight Club in Atlanta Georgia will host the Women’s International Clash of Champions. The event, an Olympic style duel will pit the U.S. elite women boxers against China’s elite team in an event that will feature action in all of the women’s amateur weight divisions. The event is the first of its kind in the U.S. since 2001, when the … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
It was a light weekend for the ladies. In Mexico, Anahi Torres (11-10, 2 KO's) broke the .500 barrier with a successful defense of the WBC Youth minimum weight title with a ten round decision over Jasseth Noriega (16-1-1). This was Torres’s third defense of the title she won when she took a 10 round decision over Maria Salinas in September of 2011. Since running up seven … [Read more...]
Oh, What a Knight! Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
Saturday night in Mexico City, California native and IBF flyweight champ Ava Knight made the most of her south bound road trip, and came home with the WBC Diamond flyweight championship. Knight (10-1-3, 5 KO’s), of Chico, California, met WBC flyweight champion Mariana “La Barbie” Juarez (35-6-3, 16 KO’s) in front of her hometown crowd at Palacio de Deporte in Mexico … [Read more...]
Punching Your Sister in the Face: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette Last week, on the official ESPN Friday Night Fights Facebook page, the question came up of how meaningful the performance of the women's team in London was at removing some of the stink of the men's completely medal-less debacle at the Olympic Games. Your columnist caught a lot of flak for saying, in no uncertain terms, that the women's performance was … [Read more...]