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Terri Moss: Walking the Talk
by Bernie McCoy
May 16, 2011

     
   
   
   
   

(MAY 16)  Her nickname, she tells me, is "The Boss." And it fits. She communicates like many I've known who've acquired that sobriquet: fast, straightforward and to the point. And similar to others, much fewer in number, who actually deserved the accolade, when Terri Moss speaks about her sport, boxing, as she did early last week from her home in Atlanta, it's a good idea to pay attention since she knows whereof she speaks.

 Her last professional boxing bout was four years ago, concluding an eighteen bout career, covering ninety rounds and resulting in an even-up 9-9 record.

"I got started late," Moss recalls, "I was thirty-five when I began training seriously and I had just turned thirty-six when I had my first bout in February 2002 (a four round decision loss to Wendy Sprowl, who came to the bout with a 5-1 record).

Moss lost her first three fights and then reeled off three straight wins, the third, a four round decision over Stephanie Dobbs. Four years later, Moss book-ended her career, in May 2007, winning the WIBF minimum weight title over Dobbs with a ten round split decision.

Moss' career spanned a six year period during which, in the US, Women's boxing significantly declined as a sport prominently featured on TV. "In 2002," Moss remembers, "female boxing was still a unique sport and television provided consistent coverage; not Christy Martin on a MIke Tyson card coverage, but ESPN, Showtime and Fox Sports regularly featured female bouts. Today, you'd waste time with your remote searching for a female bout. And the irony of that is that even in the days when Christy was on top of the world, the depth of female boxing talent, then, was nowhere close to what exists today. Now, there are many more women in the ring who have had outstanding training, from the get-go, starting in boxing gyms, moving through the amateurs, with the best talent turning pro. But, at the same time, these talented fighters simply don't get to show their skills to the boxing fans. Sure, a women's bout might get placed in the middle of a local card now and then, just before or just after intermission, but think about this: the acknowledged best female fighter in the sport today has never fought, on a major card, in the most visible boxing venue in the country, Las Vegas, and that makes absolutely no sense, whatsoever."

"Why is it that, in this country, where the vast majority of talented female boxers are located, almost all of these fighters are forced to go to Mexico, Japan or Europe for any type of showcase bout. Did Christy ever fight overseas? Of course not, she was in demand here, she was on the biggest boxing cards in those days. Why hasn't Holly Holm been on a Pacquiao card? The boxing community, specifically the promoters and the sanctioning bodies simply have to rediscover or, at the very least, reassess female boxing. And if they do and if they do it objectively, I think a lot of high ranking boxing officials will be surprised at what they find. Because the fact is, right now there is a whole bunch of female boxing talent in a whole bunch of weight classes going largely unnoticed within their own sport."

This, of course, is not news to those who follow the sport of Women's boxing. And it's, likewise, difficult to avoid the premise that the glory days of the sport may have passed. Moss doesn't buy this conclusion. "No, the sport can be revived, maybe not to the level of the Martin, Rijker days, but certainly it can improve beyond it's current state. What it's going to take is for the sport and that means everyone associated with Women's boxing to get off their backsides and start marketing the talented female boxers who are out there today. I had my day in the ring and now I want to lead the fight for those women athletes to, at least, get the chance to show what they can do inside the ropes."

Following her "day," Moss has stayed close to the sport. She currently runs, along with her former trainer, Xavier Biggs, the Decatur Boxing Gym in northeast Atlanta where she trains only women boxers. She also runs two "corporate boxing shows" a year, featuring business people who stay in shape with a boxing training regimen. "I always make sure that the bouts are split between men and women," Moss states, "and they've been big hits in the community. I'm currently in the process of doing some due diligence on the possibility of franchising the shows."

In addition to toiling at the grass roots of the sport, Moss was recently named Women's Boxing Chairman of the(CODA), a newly established sanctioning body that seeks to fill the yawning gap in oversight that, currently, looms over the sport of boxing. Will CODA succeed where the others have not? The stated mission of the organization sounds good, as missions always do. But the fact is that the sport of boxing needs help, big time help, and it hasn't received much from the sport's current overseers. Whether CODA makes a difference will be judged by the results they achieve, not by mission statements.

With Terri Moss, CODA seems to be off on the right track. She knows the sport of Women's boxing and, more importantly, she knows what's wrong with the sport and is more than willing to articulate those wrongs along with what needs to be changed. She'll talk fast, straightforward and to the point and, hopefully, people at CODA and those in the sport of Women's boxing will listen. After all, it's usually a good idea to give The Boss a chance to be heard.

Bernie McCoy

 
     
     
   
 
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