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Jolene Blackshear, a hard-hitting 4'11" flyweight/junior flyweight from San Diego, California, began boxing professionally in 1996 and rose quickly to the IFBA Flyweight world title. In 2009, after a nine-year layoff, she returned to competition for the love of the sport and unfinished business. Her “new” team (of the past 9 years) has been Kalina Fernandez as trainer and manager, with Tony Contreras as the assist. Under this team, Blackshear has retained the drive and passion that previously put her atop the women's boxing world. In her first comeback fight in May 2009, Blackshear defeated Melissa McMorrow in San Jose by UD4 after dropping her three times in the 2nd round.

Jolene graduated with Honors from Sonoma State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Biology. She also excelled in collegiate sports, earning all-Conference Honors in fast pitch softball as well as track and field. She originally began boxing as a challenge and a continuation of her competitive nature while in school. Her fast, aggressive and exciting ring style would give Yvonne Trevino, Anissa Zamarron. Delia Gonzalez and Margaret Sidoroff all they could handle!

Jolene began her pro boxing career on June 10, 1996 at the Civic Auditorium in Santa Cruz, California when she knocked down Rebecca Cesena of Sacramento, CA three times en route to a KO in the fourth round. Cosena fell to 0-2 with the loss and from that point on Blackshear sought tougher competition.

On May 17, 1997 Jolene (113 lbs) fought Yvonne Trevino (112 lbs) of Arizona in the first IFBA all-women's card at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California. Jolene knocked the heavily-favored Arizonan down twice early in the first round of the contest but both knockdowns were ruled slips by the referee. Later in the same round, Jolene was deeply cut under her right eye by a strike from Yvonne's elbow. The doctor rules that Jolene could not continue and the fight was ruled a TKO win for Trevino ... to a storm of protests - from Yvonne, from both corners, and from many in the crowd!  Unfortunately, as much as both fighters were not pleased with the outcome of this fight, the rematch that seemed inevitable at the time never took place.

On October 4, 1997 at the Lady Luck Casino in Lula, Mississippi, Jolene (108 lbs) won the IFBA flyweight championship with a ten-round (99-93, 97-93, 96-94) decision over Anissa Zamarron (110 lbs) of Austin, Texas in a war that was easily the best fight on the pay-per-view card. Zamarron's nose was broken but she still gave the aggressive Blackshear a tremendous battle. Both fighters received a standing ovation at the end of the bout.   The fight was named IFBA Fight of the Year for 1997.

On June 30, 1998 at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jolene (110 lbs) retained the IFBA Flyweight title with a brutal fifth-round TKO over Sara Hall (109 lbs) of Chesterfield, England, a 5-0 kickboxer who was making her pro boxing debut. Jolene went right at Hall from  the opening bell and ate some hard right hands but got the better of most of the toe-to-toe exchanges with the English fighter. Late in the fourth round, as she pounded Hall against  the ropes, Blackshear emitted a loud grunt reminiscent of Monica Seles. "It comes from the bottom of my heart, the bottom of my toes," Blackshear said after the fight, adding "that's my spirit coming out."  Hall suffered a broken nose and broken jaw and could not answer the bell for the sixth round.

On September 17, 1998 at the Grand Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi: Jolene (111 lbs) successfully defended the IFBA Flyweight title against the veteran Delia Gonzalez (109 lbs) of Chamberino, New Mexico with a unanimous ten-round decision before an estimated crowd of 1,200. Judge Paul Cita had Blackshear ahead 96-95, Freddie Steinwinder III had the bout 98-93 and C.B.Jenkins scored the bout in favor of Blackshear by 97-93. Blackshear got off to a fast start as usual but Gonzalez began a comeback in the fifth, using her jab to keep Blackshear off balance. Jolene had to come on stronger in the ninth and tenth to secure the win.

Blackshear praised Gonzalez after the bout, saying "This was the classiest fight of my career. Gonzalez fights clean and is a good technician." Gonzalez fell to 10-3-2 with the loss.

On February 11, 2000 in Kenner, Louisiana, Jolene (104 lbs) lost the IFBA Flyweight title to Canada's Margaret Sidoroff (108 lbs) by a hard-fought ten-round unanimous decision that was televised live on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights.  Although Blackshear had been out of the ring for over a year, she showed no ring rust as she won the first two rounds and tagged Sidoroff repeatedly with her hard-charging aggressive style. However, Sidoroff improved the timing of her counter lefts in the third and the fight turned around in the middle rounds. Sidoroff showed great head movement and superb reflexes to slip Blackshear's punches while landing her own busy and effective combinations. As Blackshear fell behind on points, she escalated the pressure and the final round was a war with both fighters taking and dishing out significant punishment. Sidoroff rose to the challenge and was backing Blackshear up as they went toe to toe to end an exciting, skilled and heart-filled bout.

The scorecards recorded a unanimous (98-92,98-92,97-93) decision for Sidoroff ... but the real winner may have been women's boxing in the USA as the live bout drew non-stop praise from the ESPN2 Friday Night Fights commentators. Sidoroff advanced to 7-0 with 3 KO's while Jolene fell to 4-2 (2 KO's).

Unfortunately for fans of the best in women's boxing, this classic battle with Sidoroff, who won three world titles, would be Jolene's last pro fight for more than nine years.

On May 7, 2009 at "Fight Night at the Tank" at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California, Jolene (105½ lbs) came back to the sport in "fighting fit" style when she took on the talented undefeated Melissa McMorrow of San Francisco, California  The two boxers did not disappoint the fans, and went toe to toe with each other.  Blackshear dropped McMorrow three times in the second round and kept up the pace with her devastating straight right hand. McMorroew displayed great resilience by fighting back well after the three-nockdown round, however, and the rest of the fight was almost even. Blackshear had been deducted a point for hitting McMorrow after the younger fighter was down in the second but a shocker came at the end when the four-rounder was declared a majority draw but. It was later realized that a scoring tabulation  error had been made and the correct tabulation was a majority decision (37-36, 37-36,36-36) win for Blackshear.  McMorrow, who had been the junior flyweight silver medalist at the USA Boxing Nationals in 2007 and a two-time regional Golden Gloves champion, fell to 2-1 with her first pro loss. Jolene improved her own pro record to 5-2-0 (2 KO's).

On October 15, 2009 at Songdo Convensia in Incheon City in South Korea, Dan-Bi Kim (4'11", 103 lbs) of Anseong, South Korea won a 10-round unanimous (97-94,96-94,96-94) decision over Jolene Blackshear (104¼ lbs) for the vacant IFBA Mini-Flyweight belt. In a statement sent to WBAN on October 17, Judy Kulis of the IFBA wrote that “The IFBA will file a formal protest on behalf of Jolene Blackshear and Lisa Brown over the questionable outcomes delivered by judges after their respective bouts on Oct. 15 in South Korea."  On October 27, 2009, Kalina Fernandez of Team Blackshear sent WBAN a copy of an official protest of the decision detailing numerous infractions by Dan-Bi Kim and challenging the scoring of the fight.

Since 2011, Jolene has been training with James Thomas (head trainer) and Jose Cital (manager / co-trainer).

On October 25, 2012 at Las Pulgas in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, Jolene  (105½ lbs) returned to the ring and TKO'd unbeaten Lili Barajas (107 lbs) of Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico at 0:47 in the first round of a scheduled four-rounder. Blackshear broke Barajas's nose with a straight left that sent the Mexican to the canvas; the fight ended when the referee judged that Barajas was unable to continue.   Barajas fell to 3-1 (3 KO's) with the loss.

On January 30, 2013 at Las Pulgas, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, in the semi-main event, Jolene Blackshear (107 lbs) won a six round unanimous (58-56x3) decision over Linda Soto (5'3", 105¾ lbs), from Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico.  Blackshear improved her pro record to 7-3 (3 KO's) while Soto fell to 5-2 (3 KO's).

On July 26 2013 at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, California, Jolene won an eight-round split (74-75,76-74,76-74) decision over previously undefeated Sindy Amador of Riverside, Caifornia for the interim WIBA Junior Flyweight title.  Amador dropped to 10-1 (1 KO).

On December 6, 2013 at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California, undefeated Maria (Maggie) Suarez of Santa Maria, California moved her record to 7-0-1 (0 KO's) with a six-round unanimous (60-54,60-54,59-55) decision over Jolene Blackshear who fell to 8-4 (3 KO's).

On April 4, 2014,  at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in San Diego, California, Kenia Enriquez (107½ lbs) of Tijuana, Mexico won the vacant NABF Junior Flyweight title when she TKO'd Jolene Blackshear (107 lbs) at 1:26 in the seventh round of a scheduled eight.  Enriquez used her jab well to keep Blackshear at a distance in the early going while using every opportunity to land countering combinations. Enriquez became more aggressive in the second half of the fight and her nose was bloodied in the fifth by one of  Blackshear's hard rights. The sixth and seventh were harder fought and Enriquez won with a decisive flurry of left hooks in the seventh to earn the stoppage.  Blackshear fell to 8-5 (3 KO's) while Enriquez improved her pro record to  11-0 ( 6 KO's) with the win.


Blackshear vs. Susan Reno

On September 4, 2014, in San Diego, California in a light flyweight six, Jolene Blackshear 9(4)-5(2) won a first round KO over Susan Reno 1-3(1)-1.

"Boxing takes athletic prowess, skill coordination, hard training and profound dedication," said Blackshear, who trains four hours a day to keep in shape for her fights. "It's not street fighting or mud wrestling or Jerry Springer, and it's not something you just step into the ring and do. You have to be really dedicated to succeed."

Jolene is a complete fighter with passion, drive, and a great team behind her as she aims to make her "second time around" even better than the first.

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