Latest Boxing Action in
Women’s Boxing
by Sue TL Fox
October 13, 2008
Photo: Esther Schouten
This past week in professional women’s
boxing, there were many female matches throughout the world---although
none that have been reported thus far would rise to the level of being
high-profile.
On Thursday, October 9th, at the Battle in the Ballroom boxing event,
held at the Irvine Marriott Hotel, in Irvine, California, an interesting
combination of scheduled bouts made this card unique. On the undercard,
they featured a history-first when married couple, Ana Tangero and Ricky
Tangero, both made their pro debut. Bantamweight Ana Tangaro, 116¾, won
her pro debut by unanimous decision over Michelle Nelson, 116¼, while
her husband did not fare as well when he lost by a decision.
On Friday, October 10th, there were three boxing cards throughout
Argentina that featured a female bout on each card. In Buenos Aires,
junior featherweight Marcela Acuña, 120, of Caseros, Argentina, TKO'd
Paulina Cardona,119¼, 12-4-3 (5 KOs), of Barranquilla, Colombia, in the
first round of a scheduled eight round bout; In Trelew, lightweight
Claudia Andrea Lopez, 12-3-0 (2 KOs), of Trelew, TKO’d Pamela Benavidez,
1-1-2 (0 KOs), of Misiones, in the fifth round of a scheduled six round
bout; and at the Club Itapúa, in Misiones, featherweight Cecilia Lujan
Rodriguez, 1-2-1(1KOs), TKO’d Silvia Raquel Gervasi, 0-8-2 (0KO), in the
fourth round, of a scheduled four round bout.
On this same night, in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, super bantamweight
Esther Schouten, 22-4-1 (11 KO), of the Netherlands, won by RTD in the
third round, over Maribel Santana, 9-6-1 (3KO), Dominican Republic, in a
scheduled eight round bout.
On Saturday, October 11th, at the Arkansas State Fairground, Texarkana,
Arkansas, featherweight Lisa Lamb won a four-round unanimous decision
over Amanda Grim; at the Perth Convention Centre, Perth, Australia,
super featherweight Erin McGowan, 8-0-0 (7KO), of Perth, easily defeated
Saisamon Sor Saitong, of Thailand, when she TKO’d her in the second
round of a six round bout; and in Las Tablas, Panama, Carmen Saint John,
151, making her pro debut, made a short night of it, when she TKO’d
Lizbeth Gallardo, 152, 0:41 in the first round----The bout was scheduled
for four rounds.
On the amateur scene, the Pan Am Championships were held on October 3-6,
2008, at the Haguaramas Convention Centre in Port of Spain, Trinidad and
Tobago. The finals were well attended, with the largest crowd over the
four days of competition. The Canadians won all three of their bouts,
the USA four out of nine and both Brazil and the Dominican Republic two
each. Mary Spencer was officially announced the “Boxer of the
Tournament”. [Photo
Flash Slideshow]
WBAN’s correspondent reported, “Although some of the female boxers lost
by very wide margins, they performed quite creditably. The encounter
between Canada’s Many Bujold and USA’s Cheryl Lyn Houlihan was a
‘holding breath’ experience for those in attendance. These two boxers
executed proper shots and combinations but they both had almost
impenetrable guards. The Americans won the first three encounters with
the Brazilians until Tanya Cardoso had a shut-out victory over Jody Ann
Weller, 8-0. Cardoso strategically counter punched Weller whom seemed to
have no answer for her slightly shorter opponent. Next victory for
Brazil came from Adriana Araujo over American Caroline Barry. This was
the third fight for Araujo during the competition and she proved to be
very versatile as she fought differently each time. Canadian Katie Dunn
again showed her dominance in the ring when she outpointed game Quanitta
Lee Underwood, USA. Dunn displayed excellent hand speed, ring craft and
accuracy. Canada once again handed another loss to the Americans when
Mary Spencer had a shut-out victory over Vanessa Jackson. American
Franchon Crews seemed to possess an indomitable spirit and won the
hearts of everyone she came in contact with. She sang the United States
national anthem quite beautifully and was complimented by just about
everyone. In the ring she was a little sloppy with her boxing technique
however. It was more of a slugfest when she defeated game Andreia
Bandeira. Trinidad’s Chimere Taylor failed to give the kind of
performance she had on the second night of competition. She was overly
cautious and gave Dominican Republic’s Yenebier Guillen far too much
respect. Guillen had defeated Taylor in the recent CABA championships.”
[Photo Flash Slideshow]
