Hannah "The Vegas" Fox trained for six months before taking her first pro fight. She started with relatively easy fights, but by her fifth foray into the ring, was facing respectable competition in Sara Schmedding. In her seventh fight, she was up against one-time WIBF welterweight champ Diana Dutra.

If it's true you can tell more about an athlete in defeat than in victory.   Fox never looked better then in her 10th career fight, against Fredia Gibbs.    Without question, Gibbs was the better fighter this night. Fox found herself on the canvas for the first time in her career in the sixth and final round of what ended in a   loss.

But Instead of hiding from her setback, she was back into the ring two months after her loss, and three fights later, had earned a title shot against the enigmatic Leah Mellinger.   Fox defeated Mellinger and became the IFBA Welterweight Champion of the world.

In January of 2000, Hannah Fox was offered a fight with Denise Moraetes.   She did not take the fight because she said that she needed a "tune up" fight after having an eight month layoff.   Soon after boxing fans were saying Fox was chicken to fight Moraetes, so WBAN ran a survey to allow boxing fans to voice their opinion.