(JUNE 15) WBAN is happy to report that we have now been on the Internet for 12 Years! Little did I know in 1998, that what was going to be no more than a historical website about the past women boxers, would become a source of major coverage for the sport----and paying tribute to the past women boxers who played a significant part in the sport to pave the road for the current boxers.

I first would like to thank ALL of the writers and photographers (too many to mention all), the boxers, their teams, the promoters, and the boxing community for the continued coverage and contributions they have sent into WBAN all of these years.

I would like to personally give a special thanks to Dee Williams who continues to be a major source in covering the sport, with the independent WBAN World ratings, the top-of-the-line biographies of the women boxers, and all the other countless contributions Dee continues to provide.

I would like to also personally thank another longtime supporter of the sport ---Denmark's Torben. L. Torben has been helping me even before WBAN was ever in existence. I met Torben on a classified ad section of some website, when I was in the process of doing research on the history of the sport. Torben was living in Ireland at the time, and he answered my classified ad. At that time, I had not even named WBAN (Women Boxing Archive Network) and I did not  have the URL picked out at the time---I knew absolutely nothing about building a website on the net.

Torben supplied me with enough history from his collection, along with what I had accumulated about the sport to initially get WBAN on the net.

Lastly, I would like to give honorable mentions to our three world title holders, Chevelle Hallback, Holly Holm, and Myriam Lamare, who made boxing history for WBAN,  when they won the first WBAN Independent belts in the sport.