Grrl Power: The Official Women's Boxing S̶u̶p̶e̶r̶. Wonder-Thread

No one wants to see Shields exposed

 

Can't speak for everyone but I'd love to see Cecilia take her to school for sure.

 

The truth would come out that Clarissa is really Calvin.

 

Honestly don't know that much about women boxing, Have watched a few fights and know sum names, so would be interested in some feedback to teh below:
1. Katy Taylor - seems good, but still looks a little crude in the way she throws punches. Am I wrong?
2. Nicola Adams - what happened to her, not heard from her for a while. She did look genuinely a very good well schooled technical fighter - far superior to Katy Taylor. Thoughts?
3. Who are considered the P4P best at the moment?
4. Back in the day the most well known names were generally not that good (coal miners daughter, Jane Couch etc). However, I heard how great and scary Lucia Rijker was. How good was she and could she compete with the current fighters? Also what about Laila Ali? Think she won all her fights, she looked decent enough (although again a little crude, but better/more technical than most of the others at that time)?

Comments appreciated

 

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Ann Wolfe....Still scares me to this day. Chatted with her one night in ATLANTA and she invited me to the farm for some training....I declined

 

It's relatively new compared to the mens game and it has a long way to go yet, no doubt.

But, like womens football, it has come a long way in the past 30 years or so.

In the seventies, my under-14 school team could have beaten any womens team on the planet. And we were not champions.

The recent womens World Cup showed that they have come a long way.

I expect womens boxing will improve with time.


Extract from history of womens boxing:

1975: Nevada issues the first female boxing license to Caroline Svendsen. In the following three years California and New York follow suit.

1979: A successful lawsuit brought by Shirley Tucker and the ACLU forces California to change their regulations that had limited women boxers to no more than four rounds.

April 1987: Marian Trimiar stages a month long hunger strike advocating for better conditions, pay and recognition for women boxers.
Quote:" It's my heart, it's my love," "Unless women get more recognition, we will be fighting just as a novelty for the rest of our lives. There will be no future." (source: Houston Chronicle News Services 04/27/1987)

1988: Sweden becomes the first country to lift a ban on women’s amateur boxing.

April 16, 1992: Gail Grandchamp wins an eight-year legal battle for the right to fight. The judge rules that it is illegal to deny someone the right to fight based on their gender.

March 1993: Dallas Malloy and the ACLU files a lawsuit against USA boxing. USA boxing settles and lifts the ban prohibiting women from boxing.

October of 1993: Dallas Malloy defeats Heather Poyner by decision in the first sanctioned women’s amateur match in the United States.

1994: AIBA (Amateur International Boxing Association) lifts the ban on women’s boxing.

1995: New York Golden Gloves include women for the first time.

1996: Christy Martin fights Deirdre Gogarty. This fight is considered the birth of modern professional women's boxing in the US.

1996: England lifts the ban on women’s amateur boxing.

1997: USA boxing holds it’s first national championship for women.

1999: AIBA approves the first European Cup for women.

2001: The first women’s World Amateur Boxing Championship takes place in Scranton, PA

2009: The International Olympic Committee votes to lift the ban on women’s boxing.

2011: Women’s boxing is included in the Pan American Games for the first time.

2012: Women’s boxing debuts as an Olympic event for the first time since the games began.

 

I want to make Claressa Shields joke so badly!

But it's cool to see her jump around weight classes so much. They are just giving her titles to pick up, but at least good fights are being made.
Now that she is at 154, maybe we can get a showdown with Braekhus.

 

There is something innate within most of us that is repulsed by this. Aside from their side of the sport being objectively inferior It's hard to stomach seeing a woman brutally KO'd in the ring.