PORTLAND, OR – (January 27, 2019) WBAN is proud to announce the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF), Class of 2019. This sixth annual induction represents a record breaking number of honorees in the history of this signal institution which has recognized and honored those individuals who have, over the history of the sport
Full Copyrights: Women’s Titlists, Circa 1949 The Press-Courier – April 12, 1972, page 8 In an article published on April 12, 1972, a woman with 10 children talks about her past boxing experience and claim that she was a former boxing champion from a November 1949 fight. Her name was Mrs. Lancaster, of Lancaster, Tennessee.
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