Month: October 1975

On October 23, 1975, at the Expo Center, in Portland, OR, Caroline Svendsen fought Jean Lange in a four-rounder winning the EXHIBITION by a unanimous decision.  There is no documentation with FightFax, nor the Oregon Athletic Commission that this fight was ever sanctioned.  After researching the past fights in the 1970’s many of the fight were

Documentation:  Tucson Daily Citizen, December 13, 1975, Page 12 Photo/Karen Mast On October 10, 1975, at the Community Center, Tucson, Arizona, in what was probably the FIRST Professional female bout to take place Marion Bermudez, who had boxed a couple of males in the ring in the amateurs, made her pro debut this night.  Her