IBA, IFBA, WIBA and WBAN boxing champion Chevelle Hallback who has a 27-5-2 professional record, will make her pro mixed-martial-arts debut during a Dec. 5 Xtreme Fighting Championships event in Florida. Her expected opponent is not named as of yet.
“I’ve boxed in Japan, Canada, California, Las Vegas – all over the world, really,” Hellback stated in today’s press release. “I’m so excited to finally be able to show everyone right here in my own backyard what Chevelle Hallback is all about. And what I’m about is world championships. If I can win five combined world titles in boxing and MMA, I’ll undeniably go down in history as the greatest female fighter of all time — and that’s a legacy worth spilling blood for. [Because] I absolutely guarantee you, the blood that’s spilled won’t be my own.”
Laila Ali really is one female athlete who really packs a punch behind her muscle. She set the female boxing scene alight when she emerged on the scene with her powerful build, good looks and her fathers charisma, she propelled women’s boxing heavily back in to the spotlight. After proving too much for her competition at 24-0 she has turned her hand to media, presenting TV Shows and even trying her hand on ‘Dancing with The Stars’. Now thats one woman who you would NOT want to step on her toes during the foxtrot!
Twelve female boxers are representing the United States in the 2008 Pan American Championships which started last Friday October 3 in Trinidad and Tobago. With the USA boxers doing very well, 11 out of the 12 female boxers have advanced to the finals.
The annual event showcases the top athletes from North, Central and South America, provides an early prep for the United States boxing team before the Women’s World Championships in November in China.
A slight hitch already saw Trinidad and Tobago’s top boxer Wendy Alleyne unceremoniously ordered to leave the host hotel.
The International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) executive committee announced their plans this week to petition the International Olympic Committee to have female boxing included in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Since women’s wrestling was added in the 2004 Athens Olympics, boxing is the only summer Olympic sport without a female division.
The AIBA has approved and governed women’s boxing since 1994, and says the standard of women boxing has grown to a very high level and is ready for Olympic inclusion.
Kathy “Shake ‘em Down” Williams, a 5′5″ policewoman from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada is a fine example of the new breed of women boxers who step into the professional boxing ring after first getting a thorough schooling in the fundamentals as amateurs. Kathy is a two-time Canadian national amateur champion who also represented her country in international tournaments in Sweden and Finland.
Kathy was born on 8 September 1967 and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. She attended Bishop’s University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (double major in Business and Psychology and a minor in French).
She began her boxing training at age 11, at a sports camp, when she was living in Montreal. She discovered that she really enjoyed it and continued for three years, but she quit because “there wasn’t much women’s boxing happening at that time”. Her interest in competing was rekindled in 1993 while she was attending police college and saw a boxing and kickboxing show that included two women. “I was watching them thinking I could beat them” she says.
28.04.08 - By Vivek Wallace, Photo by Emily Harney - Generally when boxing talk hits the airwaves it deals primarily with the Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s, the Oscar Dela Hoya’s, and maybe the Manny Pacquiao’s of the world. When more seasoned fight aficionado’s take a trip down memory lane, they think Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, and maybe a couple others. After years of male dominance in the sport, fight fans began to slowly take note of the great female boxers who’ve been talented enough to penetrate the television market and put on spectacular performances, such as the Christy Martin and the Laila Ali. As female based boxing continues to develop a more consistent fan group, the reality is that it still isn’t too easy to witness these talents, and since mainstream media has failed to consistently bring these talents to the world, today, we bring a one solid contender on her way up the ranks to you. To some, particularly above the Canadian border, this fighter may need no introduction, and after today, those below the border will be glad to announce that they don’t either.. Recently I had the opportunity to have a ‘fire-side chat’ with the lovely, yet potentially dangerous Sandy ‘Lil Tyson’ Tsagouris….more at
This video is pretty funny and makes for good viewing as well. You just have to love the “fixing up” that happens between rounds! Is this social commentary? A spoof of the 1920’s? You decide…
28.04.08 - By Vivek Wallace, Photo by Emily Harney - Generally when boxing talk hits the airwaves it deals primarily with the Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s, the Oscar Dela Hoya’s, and maybe the Manny Pacquiao’s of the world. When more seasoned fight aficionado’s take a trip down memory lane, they think Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, and maybe a couple others. After years of male dominance in the sport, fight fans began to slowly take note of the great female boxers who’ve been talented enough to penetrate the television market and put on spectacular performances, such as the Christy Martin and the Laila Ali. As female based boxing continues to develop a more consistent fan group, the reality is that it still isn’t too easy to witness these talents, and since mainstream media has failed to consistently bring these talents to the world, today, we bring a one solid contender on her way up the ranks to you. To some, particularly above the Canadian border, this fighter may need no introduction, and after today, those below the border will be glad to announce that they don’t either.. Recently I had the opportunity to have a ‘fire-side chat’ with the lovely, yet potentially dangerous Sandy ‘Lil Tyson’ Tsagouris….more at
