(SEPT 9) When Female Boxing Was not Cool! Check out a new segment WBAN will be doing on the history of the Sport. This is one of the few magazines at the time in the 1970's that even gave "any" ink to female Boxing. This is out of the Boxing Illustrated Magazine, dated September 1974! They were one of the first to actually publish female boxing ratings at the time. Source: WBAN Library of history/ copyrights to Boxing Illustrated, September 1974 *for historical purposes only.

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It is amazing how far this sport have come throughout the years.  WBAN would like to share some of the "Flash From the Past" coverage, that was sporadic and inconsistent, but we were at least fortunate to have Boxing Illustrated Magazine making attempts through the 1970's to give some recognition to the female warriors who fought in the past. 

In this issue, it covered Barbara Buttrick, who fought in the 1950s, and her opponents, and a great article on the Junior Missy Gloves, that was a great effort in the past to get female boxers into the amateurs.  They struggled through years to get this to happen.