Month: January 1978

Lilly “Squeaky” Bayardo: Pioneer Female Boxer

  SQUEAKY BAYARDO, a 127-pound featherweight fought against Cora Webber on the first all-female boxing card in Hawthorne, California on 2/11/79.   The fight ended in a draw.  The crowd roared as these two fighters went head to heard with each other. Some of the highlights of Bayardo’s career her longetivity in women’s boxing,  she was

Pioneer Female Boxer: Sue “KO” Carlson

Sue Carlson donated her boxing gear to a historical museum:  documendation-of-boxing-license  historical society-collects-boxing-gear -2    historical society-collects-boxing-gear-3 It is Monday, January 23, 1978, and in the Minneapolis Auditorium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, history is being made.  Minnesota’s [reported] first professional women’s boxing match is being featured as a preliminary event on an otherwise all male fight card.

Baby Bear James – 1970’s Professional Boxer

Flash from the past notes:    Sue TL Fox of WBAN defeated Toni Rodriguez TWICE before this fight where she had won this world title bout in 1978. TL Fox FIRST defeated Rodriguez with little effort in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and then defeated Rodriguez AGAIN in a rematch in Utah (both by unanimous decision.)   Rodriguez and Fox made history in the state of

So What DID Muhammad Ali and Frazier REALLY Think about Women’s Boxing..in Ah…1978?

WBAN has the video interview of the following transcribed story.   Source: Video tape of a documentary on Cathy “Cat”    Davis—one of the most recognized and controversial women boxers of the  1970’s.    The documentary was about Cathy “Cat” Davis’ boxing career, and it also had many interviews of other persons.     Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier were