In the month of August 2020, there has been an increase in women's boxing on a variety of boxing cards throughout the world.  To give a bird's eye view of the activity, we saw many high-profile fights take place that included the following. 

Earlier this month on August 7th at the  Matchroom Fight Camp, in  Brentwood, Essex, United Kingdom, in what was considered one of the best boxing action fights between two elite athletics,  Terri Harper, 129¼. now 10--0-1 (5KO), of Yorkshire, United Kingdom, had a 10-round split draw with Natasha Jonas, 129, of Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom.   The final scores were 94-96, 95-95, and 96-95.   Harper was defending her WBC and IBO Super Featherweight titles. 

Another exciting and highly anticipated world title bout took place on August 22nd, at the Matchroom Fight Camp, in  Brentwood, Essex, United Kingdom, with the rematch between Lightweight champion Katie Taylor vs. Delfine Persoon took place without an audience due to the pandemic. Taylor won by a 10-round unanimous decision, where the fight took place at the Matchroom Fight Camp, in Brentwood.  The two were fighting for Taylor's Lightweight world title belts that included the WBC, WBA,  IBF, and WBO. Final judges scores were 96-94, 98-93, and 96-94. 

Delfine Persoon said at the time that when the result was read that this time around in fighting, said stated, “Yes, this time I respect the result. For me this time, the weight was a little too much. I didn’t feel like I had enough power to hurt her this time. I tried to get my weight up but I could not hurt her this time. And if you don’t hurt her, it’s technical and she’s good at moving around. You have to hurt her otherwise she gets away. The power was not enough. I’ve got no problem with this decision and my respect she deserves." (In a later article published, Persoon felt that she won the fight).

In a post-fight interview, Katie Taylor was asked about her thoughts on the fight, and she said in regards to winning the fight and Taylor sais that she thought she won the bout, adding, "I knew it was going to be a tough battle going into this fight. It’s never going to be an easy fight against Delfine. I knew I had to dig deep at some stage during the fight but I thought I boxed a lot better than last time. I still could’ve boxed a bit more.”

In addition, we had a huge fight take place featuring Cecilia Braekhus vs. Jessica McCaskill.  Braekhus a long-time veteran in the sport put up all of her unification belts in the Welterweight division.  In what would be considered an upset, McCaskill won the fight, but not without controversial with many giving thoughts that it was either a draw, and/or Braekhus won the fight.   Looks like a rematch may be in the works!

The fight between Braekhus vs. McCaskill took place on August 15th, in the Downtown  area of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the United States.  It was featured as the main event, with Braekhus putting up her WBC, IBO WBA, IBF titles.   The bout ended in a 10-round majority decision, in favor of McCaskill.  Final judges scores were 95-95, 94-97, and 93-97. McCaskill improved her record to 9-2-0 (3KO), and Braekhus experiencing her first defeat in the sport, is now 36-1-0 (9KO).

Other boxing action worldwide:

On August 26, 2020, in Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville, Queensland, Australia,  super bantamweight Shannon O'Connell, 121, of Queensland, Australia, won by a seventh round TKO over Kylie Fulmer, 122, who is originally from Australia, fighting out of Los Angeles.  The two were scheduled for an eight round bout.  The two were fighting for the Australian Super Bantamweight Title.  O'Connell is now  19-6-1 (10KO), and Fulmer is now 7-1-0 (6KO). 

In the United States at the Dekalb County Coliseum, in Fort Payne, Alabama, on August 22nd, middleweight Sonya Dreiling, now 4-0-0 (2KO), of Fort Payne, Alabama, won a four-round unanimous decision over Latasha Burton, now 4-14-0 (0KO), from Houma, Louisiana.  The two were throwing a lot of heavy leather during this fight.  At one point Burton looked like she may become anothe.   Dreiling was much quicker on her feet, faster combinations, and  was the aggressor throughout most of the fight.   Burton appeared exhausted in the third round, and Dreiling through countless punches at Burton with Burton just covering up during the barrage of combinations.  Sonya said after the fight, "I wanted to give a huge shout out and thank you to one amazing coach and my corner man CJ Burton. He has been a pleasure to work with not only tonight but my last fight as well. Thank you and Thank you again to Buck Courson for working my corner tonight last minute, it meant the world having you there."

In at the Pyraminde, Kazan, Russia, on August 22nd, there were two female bouts on the card, featuring super bantamweight Tatyana Zrazhevskaya, 122, of Voronezh, Russia,  won by a fifth round TKO over Lidia Sakhonchik, 120 1/4, of Moscow, Russia. The bout was scheduled for eight rounds.  In the first round Lidia went down at 1:59.  Lidia is now 0-4-0, and Tatyana improved her record to 10-0-0 (3KO). Tatyana said after the fight,  In a second female bout, Fatima Dudieva, 116¾, of Beslan, Russia, won a six-round majority decision over Inna Statkevych, 117¼, of Kiev, Ukraine.  Dudieva record improved to 7-0-0 (3KO) and, Statkevych is now 1-2-0.  Final judges scores were 57-57, 56-58, and 57-58.

Another female bout that took place on August 22nd, in Rosarito Beach, Crystal Morales returned to the ring after five years out of the sport, won a unanimous decision over Milagros Diaz in a six-rounder against her opponent. 

On August 20th, at the Kronk Gym, in Detroit, Michigan, USA, cruiserweight Danielle Perkins, 195¼, pro debut, of Houston, Texas, won a four-rounder by decision over Monika Harrison, 202, of Waycross, Georgia. 

At the Southpaw Boxing and Fitness, in Windham, on August 15th, Britain Hart, 127, of Bedford, Virginia, now 4-4-3 (3KO), won by a first round 2:00 minute, RTD over Kim Wabik, 127, of Revere, Massachusetts,  now 4-1-2 (0KO).  The bout was scheduled for six rounds.   This was a rematch for the two, in the first bout, the two fought to a four-round split draw.

A day earlier on August 14, 2020, in two different venues worldwide, at the Matchroom Fight Camp, Brentwood, Essex, United Kingdom, Rachel Ball, 123 1/2, won by a eight round bout by points over Shannon Courtenay, 126 3/4.   Courtenay went down in the first round.  Final judges scores were 75-77; In Mexico, Judith Vivanco, 105, of Mexico City, is now 7-3-1 (0KO), won a split decision over Maria Fernanda Hernandez Torres, 103 1/4, of Ecatepec, México, is now  4-3-0 (3KO).  Final judges scores was 58-56, 55-59, and 56-58. 

In Japan, that took place on August 10th, at the Yodogawa Ward Center, in Osaka, Reika Kawaguchi, 100 3/4, won by a second TKO over Runa Nishihata, 101, pro debut.

Lastly, at the beginning of the month on August 1st, in  Winterhude, in Hamburg, Germany, lightweight Natalie Zimmermann, 135, pro debut, won a four-round split decision over Abigail Quashie,  132¾.  Final judges scores were  40-37, 40-37, and 37-39.   Natalie who was making her pro debut said, "All of this was exciting. I made my professional debut as a boxer today, and won.  A thousand thanks to everyone who supported me and cheered along." 

More results to follow when they are reported to WBAN.