WOMEN'S BOXING DATABASE

QUICK HISTORY

Women have been boxing for many years, it is safe to say they have been boxing for centuries. Some archives like Wikipedia have noted that they have been boxing on record since the early 1700s in London. The majority of fights were limited to fairs and market street entertainment.

WHY WOMEN BOX?

Women and girls come to boxing for many reasons, including self defence, confidence building, wanting a new skill, trying something different – in fact many female boxers admit that originally they just wanted to try it and when did - they enjoyed it from first experience straight away. If we are talking mainstream, it is important to mention then that fitness boxing – also known as “Fit Box” for short, has taken a massive positive impact to women in boxing. Fit Box is short for Fitness Boxing where you will see the majority of women in upper class gyms using a range of free standing punch bag boxing equipment and hitting punch bags lightly while jumping lightly on the spot – it’s a mixture of dance, aerobics, discipline, control and energy – it’s very fun and the sport has seen an increase of women into the sport. An example would be the video seen on YouTube here, thanks to our own "Fit Box". To be competing at world champion like some of the listings in the directory you need be eating and sleeping boxing, healthy and though through mental and physical dynamic daily activity. When people ask about becoming a professional football player the first thing before talent is their fitness ability and love and passion for the sport, you need to be eating and sleeping football, day in and day out, playing all the time and really understanding the game, picking up skills on the streets and developing yourself. This is how talent and success is – hard work.

UPDATES ON WOMEN BOXING

Source thanks to Bettan Andersson of AIBA 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, women's boxing was displayed as an event. Even though this sent major rejection and a light amount of acceptance signals – it signaled the first major breakthrough, it was unfortunate that women did not keep since this even for another 84 years. 1988 The Swedish Federation allowed women to box with the same rules as men, the same year women also participated in the first professional bout. 2009 Berlin the International Olympic Committee voted in favour of introducing women's boxing to the Olympics, commencing from the 2012 Olympic Games. Women are now able to box in three weight categories; 51kg (flyweight), 60kg (lightweight) and 75kg (middleweight).

WOMEN'S BOXING LINKS

There are hundreds and thousands if not millions of websites that have content and media published about women and boxing - however, the very nature of search engines and content these days are mixed in marketing wisdom, cloaked sites and poor quality sites that often rank higher than they should - we have tried listing websites that we think are fit, relevant to women in boxing and have good content that will benefit you, the directory user and reader.

Women's Boxing Records
www.womenboxingrecords.com
Provides boxing records, ratings both past and present, trivia and facts.

Women Boxing Archive Network
www.womenboxing.com
Provides latest coverage in women's boxing with history, results and gallery.

Round Card Models
www.roundcardmodels.com
A blog and news portal that illustrates and lists links and profiles of boxing and mma round card models - models used in sports mainly boxing, hence why were linking to them - has names and information on boxing models and interesting things like facts and bios.

World Boxing Council (Women)
The world council of boxing - non affiliated site

WBA with Ratings and Rank listings
Womens Boxing Association and Ratings

IFBA - Female Boxers Association
The International Female Boxers Association (IFBA)

IFBF International Women's Boxing Federation
The International Women's Boxing Federation was formed in 1992 when very few People knew Women's boxing.

Let them box!
A website that was setup to boxing to promote the participation of women in boxing - to all women to perform in boxing professional in the Olympics - this is obsolete now as mentioned earlier; women are now part of the Olympics.


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