(SEPT 25) LAS VEGAS - We are on the final countdown
before the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame takes place
on Saturday, October 22, 2022, at the Orleans Hotel & Casino, in
Las Vegas, Nevada. It just seems like we celebrated our
2020-2021 IWBHF in Las Vegas, Nevada last August 14th.
That was a history-making event when the City of Las Vegas, made
our event "Women's Boxing Day", with a proclamation from the
Mayor of Las Vegas.
This year when we again have our event in our home base,of Las
Vegas, we again will make "History Markers" in the sport with our
unique and well-deserved Inductees and our prestigious
Special Award Recipients.
To begin with, we have the largest one-year 2022 IWBHF Inductees
that will be honored at our event who are the following:
Delia Gonzalez, Susi Kentikian, Rose Trentman, Thomas Gerbasi,
Fredia Gibbs, Eliza Olson, Tracy Byrd,
Rose Byrd (posthumous), Brooke Dierdorff, Yvonne
Reis, Hannah Fox, Tori Nelson, Margaret
Sidoroff, Eva Jones-Young, Jimmy Finn, and
Cora
Webber (History First Recipient--read her story).
We will also have in attendance two
of our 2020-2021 IWBHF Inductees who will be
honored as last year with the Covid and other reasons could not
attend the event. Those two inductees are Marischa
Sjauw from the Netherlands, and Valerie Mahfood, from
Texas!
We also have Eight (8) special recognition awards to be given that includes history-first Darlene Buckskin and her
sister, Theresa Kibby (posthumous) for their pioneer days
in the 1970s and being the first-ever Native American
professional boxing sisters to receive a California License and
other states, including Nevada to fight professional. We
also have Pat Pineda---she was the
first female boxer in the sport to receive a boxing license in
the state of California. We also have Jerry Hoffman
(posthumous), and Patrick Ortiz, the "before their time"
promoters who supported women's boxing and having female fights
on their cards and more. We also will be honoring Eddie
Montalvo, who is a huge asset to the sport of women's boxing,
and during his time with the IWBHF was our Executive Director until
retiring; In addition, Lupi Gutierrez Beagle for her great
contributions to the amateurs in the sport; We will be
presenting a new special award this year with "women outside the Ropes."
Our first recipient is Brenda Spinks; and lastly our Lifetime
Achievement Award that will be awarded to Bonnie Canino, of
Florida.
We are excited to
have
high-profile and celebrity Christy "The Coal Miner's
Daughter" Martin who just was inducted into the
International Boxing Hall of Fame---and also inducted in our
hall of fame in 2014 as a special guest. Martin will
have her book-signing available during our "Meet and Greet"!
To read the five-star book, you can purchase the book beforehand
our event, or buy one at the event.
Our theme this year is "Celebration"
especially after what we have endured in the last two years. We
are anticipating a sold-out affair with honoring not only our
2022 Inductees but those receiving special awards for what they
have accomplished in the sport. For General Tickets,
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Other "Who's Who" to be at our event....
Terri "The Boss" Moss,
retired world champion and 2015 IWBHF Inductee, including one of
our IWBHF Board members.) Shelley
Williams, (IWBHF 2020 Inductee); Sindy Amador,
(retired world champion); Retired
Heavyweight WBC champion Martha Salazar;
Former WBC world champion Olivia Gerula; Blanca Gutierrez (President
of Beautiful Brawlers, and multi-Hall of Famer); Jill Diamond (WBC International Secretary-Global Chair
WBC Cares)Dora Webber,
top fighter as a pioneer and with modern-day fights, and IWBHF
2021 Inductee...
Jake Gutierrez (Boxing Ring
Announcer, and our IWBHF Master of Ceremony of Event in 2022); Mary
Ann Owen (Las Vegas Photographer/2020 IWBHF Hall of Famer); Chris Byrd (Retired
Multi-World Champion); Wayne "Rocket Pocket" McCullough (Retired
WBC World Champion) and his wife Cheryl McCullough; Brenda
Zaragoza; top past photographer history-making Linda
Platt; Los Angeles photographer Nate Wren;
Jill Morley Award-Winning Producer/Director of "Fight
Like A Girl" along with her exemplary team will be filming our
event and interviews; Eight-Time World champion Layla
McCarter, and Boxing Trainer and Manager, Luis Tapia;
retired World champion Wayne McCullough, his wife Cheryl
McCullough;
Malissa Smith is the author
of A History Of Women’s Boxing, the first comprehensive
narrative of the sport The Ring magazine dubbed "The
Bible of Women's Boxing." Smith speaks and writes frequently
about the sport and with her two co-hosts, developed the popular
WAAR Room podcast focused on sports justice. Smith
maintains positions in boxing as a founding board member of the
IWBHF, an elector for the IBHOF, and as a member of
the The Ring’s women’s ratings panel. Maintaining her own
wellness, she trains at the world-renowned Gleason’s Gym
and writes pieces for her blog, Girlboxing.
We have Coyote Duran of Chicago,
Illinois, “Coyote Duran’s Creation Nation” who is part of our
IWBHF event who will be utilizing his talents as an artist to
present some beautiful rendition(s) of our 2022 event. Duran
said that when he was very young before he had become a writer
and copy/content editor for RingTV.com, he began his journey
into drawing---and with bit of imagination and a huge love
affair with comic books and more.
We have also invited the very talented singer “The Wy Mac” who
was featured on “Ireland’s Got Talent” to perform our “theme”
song of the 2022 Celebration! She also was part of our event in
our 2020-2021 IWBHF event.
The October 22, 2022 semi-formal
induction ceremony will begin at 5:00 p.m., with the popular
meet/greet with the honorees and invited special guests along
with the now traditional signing of the 7’ high historical
banner by every female boxer.
Dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m., with the induction ceremony
scheduled to begin at 7:00 p.m.
TICKETS: General Seating $85.00 per
ticket
*There are no VIP tables available.
Tickets
ATTIRE: Semi-Formal for Gala Celebration Event
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