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Fredia "The Cheetah" Gibbs (born July 8, 1963), is an American former professional martial artist, kickboxer, and boxer who competed from 1975 to 2005. [1] During her kickboxing career, she held ISKA, WKA, and WKF World Titles.
Jackie Kallen (born Jackie Kaplan, April 23, 1946) is one of boxing's first and most successful female managers. Her life was the inspiration for the 2004 film Against the Ropes, starring Meg Ryan as Kallen, [1] [2] in which she had a brief speaking role as a reporter. She also worked as a consultant for Mark Burnett's reality TV series The ...
Graciela Casillas (born 1957) is an American former boxer and kickboxer who competed in the bantamweight division. After training in several traditional martial arts, Casillas began competing as a kickboxer in 1976, and in 1979 she became the first fighter to hold world titles in both boxing and kickboxing by taking the World Women's Boxing Association's and the World Kickboxing Association's ...
Italian boxer Angela Carini came to the Paris Olympics aiming for a medal to honor her late father and coach, who died shortly after she participated in the Tokyo Games three years ago. The 25 ...
The reigning World Boxing Foundation International Welterweight champion, 31, was reportedly standing outside of a vehicle along with his girlfriend on the city’s south side when another car ...
Nicola Virginia Adams (born 26 October 1982) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2017 to 2019. She retired with an undefeated record and held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) female flyweight title in 2019.
Samoan boxing coach Lionel Elika Fatupaito died at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday, July 26. The Samoa Association of Sport and National Olympic Committee confirmed that the manager passed away ...
Women's professional boxing was not legal in the Philippines (despite the fact that the island nation has a strong amateur women's boxing team). Ryan Wissow and the WIBA worked with the Games and Amusement Board (GAB), who oversee all professional sports in the Philippines, to change the laws in their books to allow women to box there ...