McADAM, New Brunswick—what is believed to be the first ever female bout in Canada, was schedule on June 1, 1959. The female boxers who will be fighting this night is 41-year old June Lounder (and a grandmother), vs. 20 year old Myrna McConvey, Ft. Stephens, N. B. stenographer. The bout is scheduled for five
Jo Ann Hagen, a very famous female boxer from the 50’s had a mixed boxing match with Norm Jones and defeated him in a four-round decision in Michigan City in 1952. If any boxing match should be declared the “first” the Hagen/Jones fight was the closest to equivalency of that honor… Hagen was also on
In Huntington West Virginia, it was reported in a news source dated June 21, 1950, published a boxing bout between Jo Ann Hagen, of South Bend, vs. Nancy Parker, of Chicago. The two fought in or about this time on a Monday night prior to this write up, and said that Hagen won the bout.
JOANN HAGEN, a fighter in the fifties, was the only female to defeat Barbara Buttrick. HAGEN was a tall, beautiful blond-haired woman. She was very graceful in her movements when she boxed in the ring. Some interesting tidbits on Hagan (from The Police Gazette-June 1950), Hagen had appeared on the Steve Allen Show in November