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Sue Fox Named  in the "Top Ten" Most -Significant Female Boxers of All Time - Ring Magazine - Feb. 2012

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History First: Claressa Shields Wins the FIRST Gold Medal in Boxing for the USA!

In the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London, the olympics included for the first time women's boxing.  Claressa Shields, of Clint, Michigan, only 17 years old is the first female boxer in the United States to win a Gold medal.   Marlen Esparza won a bronze medal as a flyweight.  [WBAN's special coverage of the Olympics].

Like Father...Like Daughter!
May 1, 2003

On May 1, 2003, at the Delaware County Fairgrounds, in Muncie, Indiana, there was a "History First" when father, Al Hughes, 54,  and Daughter, Angela Hughes, 18, fought on the same amateur event!  Both Al and Angela won their bouts...Angela who was making her debut stopped Lynicia Hinson of Anderson in the second round by KO, and Al, defeated 20-year-old Johnny Sparks of Indianapolis.  In the first round Sparks knocked "Dad" down to the canvass, but then Al got the better of his opponent and KO'd him in the second round!
 
Professional Female Fight in Canada - 1977

Referee Nick Nicholo signals it's all over as Yvonne Barkley heads to her corner, a fourth-round winner, and a beaten Smokey Robinson slumps in her corner clutching her midsection.   Barkley and Robinson competed in Canada's first professional female fight in Canada at Pointe -aux -Trembles, Que.  *This was an original History First ---we now believe that there was boxing in Canada in the 1950s.

February 1994 - First female boxing match sanctioned by USA Boxing

These women finally got a chance to box in the first female boxing match and were part of history in the making when they participated in the first bout officially sanctioned by USA Boxing, the amateur sport's national governing body.  The female participates were Tracy Desmond, a 21-year-old senior at DePaul majoring in international studies and Jacqueline Ta, an 18-year-old from the University of Chicago.  The fight ended in a TKO for Desmond.

August 26, 1986 - Ohio Boxing Commissions Allows Female Bout

The Ohio Boxing Commission had finally allowed a female boxing match to be scheduled on a 7-bout card at the Lakeland Community College.    The female boxers who participated in that "first-time" ever bout was Parma's Debra Kennedy and Cleveland's Sharon Harrington.

First Women's Bantamweight World Championship - 15 rounds

Darlina Valdez, of Santa Fe, was in the women’s first bantamweight world championship before more than 1,000 screaming fans in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She fought a 15-round battle and won a unanimous decision over Holly McDaniel of Muncie, Indiana. Apparently the fight was a crowd pleaser, and it was reported that the crown "roared with delight" at the performance of the two women. McDaniel, a high school beauty contest winner and mother of a three-year-old.  She got her nose broken in the 11th round, but continued bravely to the finish. The rules at the time in 1983 for fighting a championship fight,  was the same as men’s, 15 rounds for championship fights and eight-ounce gloves. Chest and abdomen protectors were optional and at the time,   only about 50 percent of the women wore them.

 
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