Month: January 2013

Toni Lear Rodriguez: Pioneer Female Boxer

  Photo taken by Alastair.  WBAN purchased copyrights of photo. All Rights Reserved. Toni Rodriguez began her fighting career as a welterweight in about 1976.  Rodriguez eventually dropped about 20 pounds and switched to the featherweight division.   Rodriguez went on to fight for the sanctioned World Champion featherweight division against Baby Bear in  1979.  Rodriguez

Susie Catkins: Pioneer Female Boxer

  Photo and Story written by Alastair Segerdal and Copyrighted by WBAN.  Published as an exclusive in Glove Magazine, February 1981.   WBAN purchased all rights to Alastair Segerdal’s Collections   Photos and Memorabilia.  All Rights reserved.   This material cannot be used on other publications without WBAN’s Permission. I want to introduce you to a 19-year old

Carlotta Lee: Pioneer Female Boxer

Carlotta Lee, who not only boxed but was a registered nurse, who graduated from the University of Houston.  Lee was a  stablemate with Graciela Cassillas.  Lee said at the time, “I think that it’s nice for females to get out and do different things.  They have the abilities just like men.  To me, boxing is

Jackie Holley: Pioneer Female Boxer

JACKIE HOLLEY, a 27-year old in 1984, and a World lightweight Boxing Champion was a very dedicated boxer. She had won the World Title by fighting 15 rounds. She worked long hours training in the gym, but HOLLEY felt it was worth it.   She loved the sport and the excitement that women boxing brought to

Week 4: WBAN Weekly Review

(JAN 28) This week in #4, we have had some controversial issues take place.  First, we had word from other online news stories that Ava Knight wanted to take on a male boxer in an exhibition fight. Secondly, after Cecilia Braekhus challenged Holly Holm this coming July, and  Holm accepting that challenge; we had Layla

Barbara Buttrick – Pioneer Female Boxer

 NATIVES By “Michelle Genz” /April 12, 1998 – The Miami Herald   – It’s nearly impossible to imagine former women’s boxing champion Barbara Buttrick with a bloody nose, harder still to imagine the diminutive English-accented 68-year-old bookkeeper bloodying someone else’s. But as “The Mighty Atom of the Ring,” she not only bloodied but broke three noses

Week 3: WBAN Weekly Review

we had a variety of action going on in the sport.  We did “latest updates” on two retired female boxers, Brenda Bell-Drexel and Deborah “Knockout” Nichols.  Pepe Rodriguez sent in a story this week, on Mariana “Barbie” Juarez, that included some of her thoughts as to what 2013 will bring in her boxing career;  Michael

Deborah Nichols: Still going Strong 14 Years after Boxing!

Maybe some of the newer boxers in the sport may not know Deborah “Knockout” Nichols, a 5’7″, featherweight, from Dalton, Georgia—-but I will tell you that when she boxed from 1997 – 1999, keeping a pristine professional boxing record of 8-0-2 (4KO), and earning two world title championships with the IFBA and IBA, she was