Women's boxing was included in Olympic competition for the first time in 2012, and Toni Eubank, vice president of the Shippensburg University Boxing Club, hopes that it inspires other women to join her in the ring.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Don't look back, Mayfield! Ava Knight could be gainin' on ya
... over Toshiaki Nishioka that night. (Andre Ward remains No. 1.) But Knight-Suarez was about as high-profile as women's boxing has been in recent years as promoters seemed to be losing interest until an America woman, Claressa Shields, won an Olympic ...
Women's Boxing Club a Big Hit
... as no surprise at all to former psychologist Jessica Storch. Storch is the owner and operator of Knockout Women's Boxing Club in Westmont. As a clinical psychotherapist who practiced for five years counseling women with eating disorders and weight ...
OlympicTalk: Vonn's bid to race vs. men 'doesn't look good'
Despite owning Olympic and World Championship gold medals, U.S. Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn is still chasing "a dream of mine." You've probably heard by now that Vonn has requested to race with the men next month at Lake Louise , a ski resort nestled in the mountains of Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Lehigh boxing champion Tiara Brown wins third major title
Women's boxing world champion Tiara Brown of Lehigh Acres returned to the ring last week - still as an amateur - to win her third significant boxing title of what has often been a trying year.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Athletics: Katie Taylor v Sofya Ochigava in Dublin?
Irish boxing fans could be in line for a repeat of the 2012 Olympic Games 60kgWomen's Boxing final if the Irish Amateur Boxing Association's bold bid for the 2013 European Elite Women's Championships is successful.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Taylor set for taste of pro game
... In a separate development, Olympic champion Katie Taylor could be offered a world ambassadorial role for women's boxing by the AIBA in Yerevan, Armenia before Christmas. Taylor, the current Olympic, World, European and EU lightweight champion, will ...
Monday, October 15, 2012
Female Pound For Pound Queen Is Layla "Amazing" McCarter
... way there have been defeats with a number of them coming against fighters considered the best of all time in women's boxing. Perhaps the most impressive fight came against Chevelle Hallback in 2004. She was a strong and super fast female ...
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Sport on TV: Topless boxing, bottomless well of Georgian depravity
... social leveller of Georgian times, but when the Victorians came along such spectacles were frowned upon and women's boxing died out. Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip (BBC2, Tuesday) showed how a nation learned to hide its feelings along with its ...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Boxing:Katie Taylor is AIBA Elite Woman Boxer of 2012
... Tajikistan's Mavzuna Chorieva could readily identify with the AIBA's description of her as a pioneer for women's boxing who would take the sport "to new heights with her level of skills and dedication" . Though the final against Russia's Sofya ...
Saturday, October 6, 2012
World junior kickboxing champ's big decision
... School pupil is torn between remaining among the brightest prospects in kick-boxing or entering the world of women's boxing, which could open the door to participation in the Olympic Games of Rio. Before she travelled to Bratislava, Catterson ...
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