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Update: Upcoming event - April
4-5, 2025 The International Women’s Boxing Hall
of Fame
To purchase tickets!
IWBHF Tickets Link |
(JAN 31, 2023) LAS VEGAS -
The International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF) celebrates
it 10th Year Anniversary with our “NIGHT OF THE STARS” Hall of
Fame Induction Ceremony Event that takes place in a two-day
celebration scheduled on October 6-7, 2023 (Friday/Saturday) at
the Orleans Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Idaho boxer Alyssa Mendoza
targeting 2024 Paris Olympics
Source: PR/Bob Trieger
January 30, 2023 |
(JAN 30) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-- Nineteen-year-old Alyssa
Mendoza has burst upon the USA Boxing scene and now she’s training
at the United States Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in
Colorado Springs, Colo., at the Elite Selection Camp to determine
the Team USA roster for 2023.
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IBA continues implementing its new
Development Program for the officials in the Asian region
Source: IBA
January 28, 2023 |
(JAN 28) Lausanne, Switzerland – 2-Star Referees & Judges
(R&Js), Cut Technician and International Technical Officials (ITOs)
Courses have been successfully concluded within the ASBC Asian U22
Men and Women Boxing Championships. The ASBC Asian U22 Men and Women
Boxing Championships took place in the capital of Thailand, being a
bright start for the new IBA and ASBC competition year. However, it
was not only boxers who benefited...Full
Story
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Press Release: Boxing Manager
II
Video Game features Sue TL Fox in an Episode
Source: press release
Link to Boxing Manager II
January 27, 2023 |
(JAN 27) In the game, there is an awesome stable of sluggers
and staff, including iconic licensed characters,
Sue “Tiger Lily” Fox, Rocky Marciano™
and Sugar Ray Robinson™! The boxing world is at your
fingertips in this deeply detailed and outrageously entertaining
sports management simulation. Enlist competitive fighters, recruit
top-notch staff, and ride the hype train all the way to endorsement
city! Watch it all play out in the ring as your fighter takes the
throne… or get KO’d.
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Women Champions of ASBC Asian U22
Boxing Championships crowned in Bangkok
Source: IBA
January 25, 2023
With Press Release |
(JAN 25) Lausanne,
Switzerland – The first part of the finals of the ASBC U22 Men‘s
and Women’s Asian Boxing Championships took place in Bangkok on
25 January 2023. Uzbekistan showed the best
results with them taking five of the eleven gold medals. Host
nation Thailand came second with three gold medals, with
Kazakhstan taking two, and Mongolia with one.
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Three Female Bout on
Kissimmee Card
January 22, 2023 |
(JAN 22)On Friday night at the Kissimmee Civic Center, in
Kissimmee, Christina Cruz, 112, won an eight-round
unanimous decision over Amy Salinas, 112. The final scores
were 79-73, 79-73, and 77-75. In a second female bout on the
card, Jasmine Artiga, 115½, Tampa, Florida, won an eight-round
unanimous decision over Ashley Sciscente...Full
Fight Results
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IBA opens registration for the
Women's World Boxing Championships New Delhi 2023
Source: IBA
January 20, 2023 |
(JAN 20) Lausanne, Switzerland – National Federations are
encouraged to register their athletes for the upcoming IBA Women's
World Boxing Championships as registration opens for the event set
to take place in New Delhi, India from 15-26 March 2023.
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Rolando Vargas, Former World Champion
Mary McGee and Javier Zamorron Get Their Hands Raised in Milwaukee
Source: PR
January 18, 2023 |
(JAN 18) NEW YORK- Split-T
Management Fighters start 2023 with Six Big Wins - Abraham Nova
won a action-filled 10-round unanimous decision over Adam Lopez
in a junior lightweight fight at The Turning Stone Resort Casino
in Verona, New York. Nova's win highlighted a night that
saw Split-T Management Fighters win six contests between Verona
and Milwaukee.
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ASBC U22 Asian Boxing Championships
attracts twice as many participants for 2023
Source: PR
January 16, 2023 |
(JAN 16) Lausanne, Switzerland – The second edition of the ASBC
U22 Men’s and Women’s Asian Boxing Championships will take place in
Bangkok, Thailand from 17-26 January 2023. In total, 243 athletes
from the continent are registered to participate in the opening
event of 2023. 21 countries, including Kazakhstan, Mongolia,
Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Thailand, Tajikistan, Kuwait, India, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Vietnam, Iraq, Uzbekistan, the Philippines,
Singapore.....Full
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Mary “Merciless” McGee made
it a quick night when she stopped Dahianna Santana in the
second round
January 15, 2023 |
(JAN
15) ) Last night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the co-feature former
IBF Junior Welterweight champion Mary McGee, Gary, Indiana, won by a
second round TKO over Dahianna Santana in a six-round bout.
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IBF World title confirmed for Lani
Daniels vs. Alrie Meleisea
by Benjamin Watt
January 15, 2023 |
(JAN 15) It has been confirmed that the IBF World title will
be up for grabs in the Lani Daniels vs. Alrie Meleisea world title
fight on May 27th at Eventfinda Stadium. This will be the first IBF
World women's Heavyweight title. The IBF title has played an
important part in New Zealand's boxing history, not only for the
women's division but also for Maori boxers. There have been three...Full
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Christy Martin to
Partner with
Charter Oak Boxing Academy to Host Her Title Tournament in Hartford
Source: Press Release
January 14, 2023 |
(JAN 14) Get ready for Hartford to return to its boxing
roots in the 1950s and the days of Willie Pep, when
Connecticut’s capital featured three boxing shows a week in its
different venues! On July 21-23rd Charter Oak Boxing Academy,
known as COBA, will host Christy Martin’s special
invitational in Hartford. Called the Christy Martin /
Charter Oak Boxing Academy Title Tournament, the event promises
to draw hundreds from across the East Coast to cheer on some of
the top male and female amateur....Full
Story
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International Boxing Association’s
World Boxing Tour event in Morocco attracts global interest
Source: IBA PR
January 13, 2023 |
(JAN 23) Lausanne, Switzerland – The International Boxing
Association (IBA) has announced that an impressive international
field of more than 370 athletes from 53 countries are aiming to
compete at the upcoming World Boxing Tour event, Golden Belt Series
tournament in Marrakesh. A total of 239 men and 132 women
athletes, split across 25 weight categories, have registered to
participate in the event, which will bring the boxing world to the
heart of Morocco for a truly global spectacle of the noble art from
2 to 10 February 2023.
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Kim Clavel vs. Jessica
Nery Plata
January 12, 2023 |
(JAN
13)Tomorrow night at the Place Bell in Laval, Canada and LIVE on
ESPN+ at 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT, WBC light flyweight champion Kim
Clavel (16-0, 3 KOs) will battle WBA queen Jessica Nery Plata (28-2,
3 KOs). Clavel, who won the Pat Tillman Award for Service at the
2020 ESPY Awards after putting her boxing career on hold to return
to nursing during the start of the COVID-19.
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Sequita Hemingway in talks for
rematch against boxer who is going for world title
by Benjamin Watt
Photo Credits:
Sequita Hemingway
January 11, 2023 |
(JAN 11) Sequita Hemingway is currently in negotiations to
have a rematch against Lani Daniels in March. Daniels themselves is
also in negotiations for a major world title fight in May.
Hemingway has just come off two losses against Lani Daniels from
April and Alrie Meleisea for a New Zealand Heavyweight title back in
December. Now that Daniels and Meleisea both have..Full
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Negotiations have begun for second
New Zealand vs. New Zealand World boxing title fight
by Benjamin Watt
January 10, 2023 |
(JAN 10) We can confirm that the negotiations have begun for
second-ever New Zealand vs. New Zealand world title fight between
Lani Daniels (6-2-2) and Alrie Meleisea (6-1-1). This could be
a historic event if all the right boxes get checked, this
would not only be the first New Zealand born vs. New Zealand born
for a world title, but also for Maori vs Pasifika for a world title.
The first New Zealander vs. New Zealander ...Full
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Former champ Mariana Juarez supports
WBC's position on transgender boxing: “White is white and black is
black”
by César González Gómez
Director General
IZQUIERDAZO
January 9, 2023
Photo Credit: Pepe Rodriguez/WBC |
(JAN 9) Former Mexican world
champion Mariana “Barby” Juarez expressed her support for WBC's
initiative to consider transgender boxing as a third branch of
the sport.
“They (WBC) are right”, Mariana Juarez told IZQUIERDAZO. “White
is white and black is white. All my love and respect for them
(transgender fighters), in the same way that I deserve respect”.
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The History of New Zealand Women's
Heavyweight Boxing
by Benjamin Watt
Photo Credit: Benjamin Watt
January 8, 2023 |
(JAN 8) New Zealand has
accomplished a lot in the sport of boxing, especially
considering being a small country. One division in particular
that has had a lot of success is the Heavyweight division for
women’s boxing. Here is a brief history of the division in New
Zealand.
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The International Women’s Boxing Hall
of Fame Announces our 2023 IWBHF Inductees
Source: IWBHF Press Release
January 6, 2023 |
(JAN 6) LAS VEGAS - The International Women’s Boxing Hall of
Fame Celebrates it 10th Year Anniversary with our “NIGHT OF THE
STARS” Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Event that takes place in a
two-day celebration scheduled on October 6-7, 2023 (Friday/Saturday)
at the Orleans Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Amanda Serrano to fight
at Madison Square Garden
January 5, 2023 |
(JAN 5) NEW YORK - On February 4, 2023, at the Madison Square
Garden, in New York, Amanda "The Real Deal" Serrano, of Brooklyn,
New York, 43-2-1 (30KO), will be fighting Erika Cruz Hernandez, of
Mexico City, Mexico, 15-1-0 (3 KO). The two will be fighting a
10-round multi-world title fight for the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC, and WBO
Featherweight titles.
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Kim Clavel to fight Yesica
Nery Plata on January 13, 2023
January 3, 2023 |
(JAN 3) MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada The “IRRESISTIBLEII” event
featuring the World light flyweight unification championship between
WBC champion Kim Clavel (16-0, 3 KOs) and WBA champion Yesica Nery
Plata (28-2 , 3 KOs), is confirmed and will take place on Friday,
January 13, 2023, at Place Bell in Laval. More to follow....
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WBAN's "Make a Wish" Matchups for
2023
by Sue TL Fox
January 1, 2023 |
(JANUARY 1, 2023) It is that
time of year again where WBAN makes a "Make a Wish" matchups we
would like to see happen in 2023. [hint, hint, promoters].
Here are some
of our top picks but of course there are many, many more!
Who would YOU like to see fight in 2023!
Check
out some of our picks!