[by Julie Goldsticker/USA Boxing] Dr. Charles Butler (Kalamazoo, Mich.), a long-term ringside physician and AIBA committee member, has been elected to serve as the President/Chair of USA Boxing. Butler was chosen by his fellow USA Boxing Board of Directors members to fill the role following the removal of Hal Adonis as President. “It is a
WBAN has published the stats from 1993-2012 that Dee Williams has been keeping in the sport. Dee Williams has been, and continues to be an invaluable source for WBAN, and the sport. We have updated this trend by adding the boxer count by year for the same four countries as before. The stats from 1993
In a media teleconference, originating from Colorado Springs, USA Boxing introduced Queen Underwood as the newest addition to the 2012 Olympic female boxing squad. Underwood, who will compete as a lightweight, joins flyweight Marlen Esparaza and middleweight Claressa Shields on the three woman US squad that will compete in London in July. The Seattle
Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan, until they get hit.” As I was watching a serviceable tape of Friday’s ten round WBAN, IBA, WBF female welterweight title fight between Holly Holm and Anne Sophie Mathis from Albuquerque, NM, it appeared that Holm’s team had devised a plan that was a brief variation of
Commercial for the Holly Holm vs. Anne Sophie Mathis II Mathis defending her WBAN Junior Welterweight Belt. Mathis won by KO In their first fight – Commerical by Fresquez Productions. June 2012
This week WBAN interviewed Ana “The Hurricane” Julaton, of Daly City, California, to speak with her about her boxing career, where she wants to go in the sport, who she wants to fight and much more! TL Fox: Can you tell us how you got into boxing, and did you begin in another contact Sport, before
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Officials have been named for the Fresquez Productions-presented “The Reckoning,” featuring the IBA and WBAN rematch between light welterweight champion Anne Sophie Mathis (26-1, 22 KOs) and nine-time World Champion Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm (30-2-3, 9 KOs) to determine the mythical women’s pound-for-pound championship, June 15 Route 66 Casino Hotel in
[by Michael O’Neill] The AIBA have re-confirmed that there will be but 2 seeded boxers in each of the three Women’s weight divisions at the 30th Olympiad in London later this Summer. 49-51kg : Flyweight: 1. Cancan Ren (China) 2. Nicola Adams (GB) 60kg: Lightweight: 1. Katie Taylor (Ireland) 2. Sofya Ochigava (Russia) 75kg: Middleweight: