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Christy vs Mia!
MARCH 5, 2012 (NEWPORT BEACH, CA) – Ever since it gained worldwide notice in 1996, women’s boxing has produced a series of great fighters, but two iconic names stand above the rest – Christy Martin and Mia St. John.
This summer, nearly a decade after their first bout in 2002, Martin and St. John will meet again, in FINAL VICTORY, only this time the stakes will be even higher, as these two champions will fight for the final time and it will be for the WBC World Super Welterweight Belt in a big night of championship boxing on Tuesday evening, June 19th that will be presented by Table Mountain Casino, in association with Roy Englebrecht Promotions.
For Martin, this is her opportunity to reach the 50-win milestone against a heated rival looking to keep her from that mark. More importantly, it will be a fitting celebration of a career and life thought to be over when “The Coal Miner’s Daughter” was allegedly shot and stabbed by her ex-husband Jim in 2010. Yet despite the odds, Martin not only survived, but she returned to the ring in 2011. Now she wants to finish the most memorable career in women’s boxing history by defeating St. John. “I am excited about this opportunity to get my 50th win against Mia St John to finish my career,” said Martin. “I am honored to fight for the WBC World Title at Table Mountain Casino and look forward to becoming a World Champion once again. This time I will KO Mia, that’s as good a guarantee as you get.”
St. John has her own reasons for wanting this fight, and the way she sees it, this matchup is all about respect and redemption. In 2002, despite her stellar 26-1-1 record, it took an exciting 10 round war with Martin to earn the acclaim from the boxing world that she deserved. Since then, “The Knockout” has continued to be one of the sport’s great ambassadors, in and out of the ring, and all that’s left for her is to even the score with her greatest rival in Christy Martin. “I’ve waited nearly 10 years for this rematch,” stated St John. “I know I out-boxed Christy in the last fight, but this time I am going to BEAT her. Now we’ll see who the real WBC Champion is, La Gallina or La Guerrera.”
“Since I promoted my first female pro boxing bout in December of 1995 on a Battle In The Ballroom show at the Irvine Marriott, I am proud to say that Roy Englebrecht Promotions has promoted more female boxing bouts than any other fight promoter in history,” stated Englebrecht. “To now have the opportunity, with the FINAL VICTORY show, to work with and promote two boxing, if not sports icons, in Christy and Mia, is an honor and privilege, and believe me fight fans in the Central Valley will be in for a special evening when these two ladies meet in the ring with a legitimate world championship on the line.”
The Final Victory show which will also include four undercard bouts will be held in the Events Center at Table Mountain Casino in Friant, California, which is located just 15 miles outside Fresno. Tickets for this night of championship boxing will be priced at $70 VIP, $65 Gold, and $55 General Admission, and will go on sale on May 7th at 12 noon at www.tmcasino.com or at Table Mountain Casino. Doors will open at 6pm with the first bout scheduled to begin at 6:30pm, and you must be 18 years or older to attend the show.
Needless to say, this event is as historic as it is compelling, making it the must see fight of the Summer of 2012.
Christy Martin
“The Coal Miner’s Daughter”
49-6, 31 KOs
5-4, 147 pounds
Orlando, Florida
36-1-2 in first 39 pro fights
Has only been stopped twice (once due to injury, once by Laila Ali)
Unbeaten in four of her last five bouts
Former WBC junior middleweight champion
Holds 2002 decision win over St. John
Featured on several Don King Productions Pay-Per-View cards
Has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine
Survived harrowing shooting by her husband in November 2010; came back to fight in June of 2011 and was defeating Dakota Stone before the fight was stopped due to her broken hand.
Mia Rosales St. John
“The Knockout”
46-11, 18 KOs
5-6, 147 pounds
Oxnard, California
15 wins in three rounds or less
Former WBC international lightweight champion
Former WBC international welterweight champion
Former IBA lightweight champion
Unbeaten in first 23 pro fights
Featured on several Top Rank Pay-Per-View cards
Has appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine
Has won three of her last five bouts
For Final Victory show information contact:
Roy Englebrecht at Roy Englebrecht Promotions at boxing77@aol.com or 949-760-3131
Mario Serrano
Publicist – MJS Public Relations
boxingpublicist@aol.com
Comanche Boy earned a first round knockout
Continental America’s Champ retains title!
George (Comanche Boy) Tahdooahnippah barely had enough time to work up a sweat.
Tahdooahnippah, a middleweight boxer with Comanche and Choctaw ancestry, registered a first-round knockout over Ty (Hooligan) Brown in the main event of a card held on Saturday at the First Council Casino Hotel in Newkirk, Oklahoma.
For Tahdooahnippah, this marked his first bout since winning the World Boxing Council’s Continental Americas belt last July. He was injured while winning that title and required surgery to fix a torn right bicep.
Tahdooahnippah’s bout on Saturday, which was scheduled for six rounds, lasted just two minutes and 27 seconds. And it could have been over even quicker as Tahdooahnippah sent Brown to the canvas with a powerful left hook.
“I was surprised he got up,” he said. “I could feel the bone on his chin when I hit him.”
Tahdooanippah did not go easy on his opponent when the fight resumed.
“I knew he was dazed so I went right after him,” he said. “I hit him with a couple of good right punches and he went down again. That finished him. The ref just waved it off.”
Tahdooanippah said he would not have minded had the bout been somewhat longer.
“I was kind of hoping I could have gone a couple of more rounds,” he said. “But if you can get it done quick, you get it done quick.”
Tahdooahnippah, who is 33, hasn’t always had this attitude.
“Earlier in my career I wanted to go some rounds against guys I knew that I could beat,” he said. “But I would just end up getting cut with head butts. This time I had to be smart. I knew I had to be the superior boxer and I was.”
With the victory, Tahdooahnippah managed to remain undefeated in his pro career. He sports a 29-0-1 record, which now includes 22 knockouts. Brown, who had been a sparring partner for Tahdooahnippah five years earlier, saw his record fall to 7-2.
Tahdooahnippah is hoping to have another bout in April.
“I’m used to fighting every couple of months,” he said.
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In the Beginning… Woman’s Boxing in the USA
Hi Jill I was Chief of Officials for USA Boxing Metro when women competed for the first time in 1995. I remember the first time they competed in NY Golden Gloves March 1995 Holy Cross High School unbeliavable event.
Jill there was media everywhere. Many concerns that a Ref may over react and stop bout first sight of blood ( nose Bleed). They were also questioning if this was just a phase. The reality was these women took it very serious, they trained extremely hard many had an athletic background and had a lot to prove, they were true competitors. Here we are 17 years later and it is an Olympic Event Womans Boxing. Dallas Molloy first took USA Amateur Boxing to Court for the right to compete, that is how it began.
We thank Tony Paolillo for this report.
Maputo 2011 – All Africa Games
A man told me “go. this may be the experience of a lifetime”.
Every since 1999, when necessity put me back in on a landing field, iºve had many of those… but this..? you look into a young athlete´s eyes and see niether politics, philosophy or religion, just sweat, determination and the joy of the game. i am overwhelmed, i am high, i am astonished by the one heartedness… music and sports — they transcend all boundries-a young girl in a birka ushers me into the arena, grasping my arm tightly, because iºve come to root for her team. thats who i am to her… not a woman, not an american, not an outsider… a fan. she points me to the man who is ´lighter’ not ‘whiter’ and we sit together screaming until our voices disappear into happy grunts of pleasure exhausted by the competition.
The faces on the children as we, the WBC, hand out the tiny, aluminum crutches, as if they were diamonds, as if they were limos, as if they were the cure to the horrors that put them in those beds to begin with.
The blending of languages, and customs, and the enormous moon over the indian ocean— i am in a childºs paradise of possibilities.. washed clean.
The Countdown to the Future!
La cuenta regresiva al futuro!
El WBC se asocia con iChannel para proveer contenido de algunos de nuestro mejores pugilistas a servicios móbiles. Clínicas de los mejores boxeadores y coaches en el mundo. Nadie en el boxeo lo tiene o lo podrá duplicar. Hemos forjado lazos con apple, Sony, Amazon y itunes para crear nuestra propia academia de aplicaciones WBC; Clínicas de boxeo serán parte de una larga exposición de deportes y atletas-celebridades (Football, Basketball, Golf…) Y que estará disponible en todos los smart phones, itunes, Netflix, Amazon, etc…sin competencia alguna!
Para darte una idea del calibre de talento involucrado, se ha escogido a Kevin Durant y Chris Paul para basketball, Phil Mickelson y Cristie Kerr para golf, y a todo el talento del World Boxing Council para boxeo! Este concepto además presentará estrellas de música, clínicas, trivias y noticias. Esta aplicacióncontendrá un elemento social viable que permitirá a fans interactuar con los atletas y proveer medios para popularizar y obtener medios para caridad.
este exitante proyecto será una red social combinada con deportes, clínicas, trivias , biografías, estadísticas y un muy importante elemento filantrópico a la vez!!! ESTA SERÄ LANZADA EN LA CONVENCION MUNDIAL DEL WBC EN DICIEMBRE!
The Countdown to the Future!
WBC is partnered with iChannel to provide content from some of our top athletes to mobile devices. Instructional clinics from some of the top boxers and coaches in the world No one in boxing has, or will duplicate this. We have forged relationships with Apple, Sony, Amazon and iTunes to create our own WBC Academy APP; Boxing Clinics that will be a part of an even larger presentation of other Sports Apps and Celebrity Athletes (Football, Basketball, Golf…). It will be available on all smart phones, iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, etc … and there will be no viable competition.
To give you an idea of the caliber of talent involved, they have chosen Kevin Durant and Chris Paul for basketball, Phil Mickelson and Cristie Kerr for golf, and the stable of World Boxing Council talent for boxing. It will also feature musical stars, clinics, quizzes and news. This App will contain a viable social element – it will allow fans to interact with the athletes and provide those athletes with a way to popularize and get PR for their charity of choice.
This exciting project will be a social network combined with sports clinics, quizzes, bios, stats and a very important philanthropic element, as well. We will launch it at the convention in December. Here’s to the possibilities!
Comanche Boy
Tahdooahnippah Chosen as 2011 “Native American 40 Under 40”
“Comanche Boy” George Tahdooahnippah, undefeated professional middleweight boxer from Lawton, OK , is among those chosen by The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) 2011 Native American 40 Under 40, as part of the 36 Annual Indian Progress in Business Awards Event (INPRO). The annual event will be held Thursday, September 8th at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Tahdooahnippah is employed by the Comanche Nation Diabetes Program as a Health and Fitness Promoter. The “40 Under 40” highlights existing and emerging American Indian leaders under 40 years of age who have demonstrated leadership, initiative and dedication to achieve impressive and significant contributions in their business, communities, and to Indian country.
“I am striving to succeed as a professional boxer and to be a positive role model for all Native Americans, so to be recognized by my peers is truly an honor,” Tahdooahnippah said. Undefeated in his boxing career, Tahdooahnippah (28-0-1) won the WBC Continental America’s middleweight title July 16th by second round KO of Jimmy Holmes.
For more information about NCAIED please visit http://www.ncaied.org/.
For the latest and greatest current Comanche Boy information visit www.comancheboy.com.
Caring for Willie Edwards
Our Frank Garza and Dr Stuart Kirshenbaum are making sure the former champ Willie Edwards is not abandoned and well cared for at the home he resides in in Detroit Michigan. With prompting from a concerned health care worker who wrote us, and urging by Mauricio Sulaiman, Frank and Doc Kirshenbaum, hey have been Willie’s lifeline and support team. We thank them, which is never enough!
WBC Super Bantam World Title + American Cancer Society
WBC Female Super Bantamweight Championship
10 Rounds
Alicia Ashley (R in photo) – 120 1/2 lbs.
Vs.
Christina Ruiz – 121 1/4 lbs.
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Yazmin Rivas
NABF FLY Champ, Yazmin Rivas and her proud, promoter Lic. Cuitlahuac Maldonado Rosales of Global Knock Out. Next stop…. WBC.