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Boxing in the 1940s in many ways reflected worldwide events that affected other endeavors as well. [1] World War II raged early in the decade, and just like baseballers, many popular boxers went overseas to fight for their countries, Joe Louis, Billy Conn, Beau Jack, and Bob Montgomery among them. Louis was used to entice Americans to join the ...
Boxing: 2012– Yesica Bopp Argentina: Light flyweight: Boxing: 2008– Lovlina Borgohain India: Welterweight: Boxing: Cecilia Brækhus Norway: 64 kilograms (141 lb) Welterweight: Boxing: 2007– World Champion Cathy Brown UK: Adam Booth: 61 kilograms (134 lb) Flyweight: Boxing: 1999–2006 3 Leona Brown USA: 55 kilograms (121 lb) Bantamweight ...
This is a list of British boxers who have won a world championship by one of the four major sanctioning organisations – the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), International Boxing Federation (IBF) and the World Boxing Organization (WBO) – as well as those awarded by The Ring.
Pages in category "Female resistance members of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 275 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:English women boxers and Category:Welsh women boxers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Category: British boxers. ... British women boxers (4 C, 7 P) O. Olympic boxers for Great Britain (222 P) ... List of British world boxing champions; W.
In 1954 she was part of the first boxing match between two women on American national television. [6] [7] In 1957, she moved to Dallas. She and opponent Phyllis Kugler won the state's first boxing licenses for women, and a world title bout was held in San Antonio. Buttrick won a unanimous decision, making her the first women's world boxing ...
West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II (1991) online; Brayley, Martin. World War II Allied Women's Services (Osprey Publishing, 2001) short guide to units and uniforms. Campbell, D'Ann. "The Women of World War II" in Thomas W. Zeiler, and Daniel M. DuBois, eds. A Companion to World War II (2 vol 2015) 2:717–738