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The International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF) is a sports hall of fame located in
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. It is dedicated to
women's boxing Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses ...
, and was started by Sue TL Fox and her website Women Boxing Archive Network. The Hall of Fame has a board of 11 members, who vote on nominees who are submitted to the IWBHF by the public.
Terri Moss Terri Moss (born January 25, 1966) is a retired female boxing, boxer, and a 2015 inductee into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame. Background Her family moved to Athens, Georgia in 1975 where she grew up and resided until 2003 when ...
, a 2015 inductee, says that the IWBHF helps show women's accomplishments in the sport. Their primary mission is to "call honorary attention to those professional female boxers (now retired) along with men and women whose contributions to the sport and its athletes, from outside the ring, have been instrumental in growing female boxing."


History

The International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame first surged as an idea in 2013, by Sue TL Fox, the Founder and Creator of Women Boxing Archive Network BAN That year the WBAN, a website dedicated to women's boxing exclusively, announced that steps were being taken to open the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame's first inductee class was announced in April, 2014, and its first induction ceremony took place on July 11, 2014, and was attended by among others,
Claressa Shields Claressa Maria Shields (born March 17, 1995) is an American professional boxer and former professional Mixed martial arts, mixed martial artist. She has held multiple world championships in Quintuple champion#Boxing, five weight classes, includi ...
, women's boxing gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympic Games. On July 4, 2021, the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame announced that the event that takes place on August 14, 2021, at the Orleans Hotel & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been declared a "Proclamation Day" by the Honorable Carolyn G. Goodman, Mayor of the City of Las Vegas as "Women's Boxing Day." Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman said in the Proclamation Letter, "By virtue of the Authority given to me by the Laws of the State of Nevada and by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, do hereby Proclaim, AUGUST 14, 2021 as "WOMEN'S BOXING DAY" in the city of Las Vegas and all Residents and Visitors to join me in celebrating the Inductees for the 2020-2021 International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame. We congratulate the women boxers and other inductees for their hard work and dedication to the sport of boxing."


Inductees


2014 class

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Barbara Buttrick Barbara Buttrick (born 3 December 1929), nicknamed "Battling Barbara", is a retired British boxer and a world champion in women's boxing in the 1940s and 1950s. Originally from England, Buttrick is considered a pioneer of women's professional ...
* Bonnie Canino *
Regina Halmich Regina Halmich (born 22 November 1976) is a German former professional boxer. She is among the most successful female boxers of all time and helped popularise female boxing in Europe. Amateur career Halmich was German champion in kickboxing a ...
* Christy Martin * Christy Halbert * Lucia Rijker * Jo-Ann Hagen


2015 class

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Laila Ali Laila Amaria Ali (born December 30, 1977) is an American television personality and retired professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2007. During her career, from which she retired undefeated, she held the World Boxing Council, WBC, Women's ...
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Jeannine Garside Jeannine Garside (born April 14, 1978) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2010. She was a two-weight world champion, having held the WIBA super-bantamweight title from 2005 to 2006; the WIBA featherweight title tw ...
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Deirdre Gogarty Deirdre Gogarty (born 10 November 1969) is an Irish former female boxer who is coach of the Ragin' Cajun Boxing Club. She hails from Drogheda and attended Drogheda Grammar School. Before a law was passed in Ireland preventing women from engagi ...
* Phyllis Kugler (Posthumous) * Sparkle Lee *
Terri Moss Terri Moss (born January 25, 1966) is a retired female boxing, boxer, and a 2015 inductee into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame. Background Her family moved to Athens, Georgia in 1975 where she grew up and resided until 2003 when ...
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Laura Serrano Laura Serrano Garcia (born October 20, 1967, in Mexico City) is a Mexican boxer. Serrano began boxing at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City, where she was studying to become a lawyer. She wanted to lose weight and stay i ...
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Ann Wolfe Ann Wolfe (born January 17, 1971) is an American retired professional boxer, trainer and actress. Wolfe held world titles in three different weight classes simultaneously and is regarded as one of the greatest female boxers of all time. She is a ...


2016 class

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Sumya Anani Sumya Anani (born February 12, 1972) is a retired American professional female boxer nicknamed "The Island Girl." She was 5'6" and boxed as a junior welterweight. She is best known for a 1996 bout which left her opponent severely injured and may ...
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Jane Couch Jane Couch, (born 14 August 1968) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1994 to 2007. She became the first licensed female boxer in the United Kingdom in 1998. Couch was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame ...
* Elena Reid * Ann-Marie Saccurato *
Giselle Salandy Joenette Giselle Ife Salandy ORTT (25 January 1987 – 4 January 2009) was a Trinidadian professional boxer. She was an undefeated unified light middleweight world champion, holding the WBA and WBC, as well as the IWBF, WIBA, WIBF, and GBU ...
* Marian “Tyger” Trimiar * Britt Vanbuskirk * Jackie Kallen


2017 class

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Aileen Eaton Aileen LeBell Eaton (February 5, 1909 – November 7, 1987) was an American boxing and professional wrestling promoter who was influential in the United States' west coast's boxing and wrestling scene for five decades. In 2002, she was the first ...
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Holly Holm Holly Rene Holm (born October 17, 1981) is an American professional boxer and former mixed martial artist. She previously competed in the women's Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is a former Women's ...
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Daisy Lang Daisy Lang () (born 4 April 1972 as Desislava Kirova ()) is a former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2004. She is a three division world champion and was the first Bulgarian woman to capture a world title, having held the WIBF sup ...
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Ria Ramnarine Ria Ramnarine (born 12 October 1978) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2012. During her career, she held world titles in two weight-classes; the WIBA minimumweight Mini flyweight, also known as ...
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Ana María Torres Ana María Torres Ramírez (born 25 January 1980), also known as ''La Guerrera'', is a Mexican former professional boxer who held the WBC female super-flyweight title twice between 2007 and 2012. Torres was inducted into the International Boxing ...
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Ada Velez Ada may refer to: Arts and entertainment * '' Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle'', a novel by Vladimir Nabokov Film and television * Ada, a character in 1991 movie '' Armour of God II: Operation Condor'' * '' Ada... A Way of Life'', a 2008 Bollywo ...


2018 class

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Myriam Lamare Myriam Lamare (born 1 January 1975, in Saint-Denis) is a French female boxer who won world titles in the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Federation (WBF), and International Boxing Federation (IBF). Biography Myriam Lamare was born ...
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Belinda Laracuente Belinda Laracuente (born 1980) is a women's boxing competitor from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where she lived from 1989 to 1998. Her nickname is ''Brown Sugar''. Laracuente debuted as a professional boxer on 12 February 1997 in a match against Kare ...
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Jessica Rakoczy Jessica Rakoczy (born April 14, 1977) is a professional boxer and professional mixed martial arts fighter from Hamilton, Ontario, and seven time women lightweight boxing champion of the world. Boxing career Rakoczy made her professional boxing ...
* Mary Jo Sanders * Vonda Ward * Julie Lederman *
Belle Martell Belle may refer to: People and fictional characters * Belle (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Belle (surname), a list of people * Southern belle, a stock character representing a young woman of the American South's upper ...
* Bernie McCoy


2019 class

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Carina Moreno Carina Lisbed Moreno (born October 9, 1981), is an American former professional boxer. Professional career Early career Moreno turned professional in 2003 & compiled a record of 11–1 before defeating Nanako Kikuchi, to win the WBC mini-flyweig ...
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Wendy Rodriquez Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries. In Britain during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activitie ...
* Bridgett Riley *
Martha Salazar Martha Salazar (born February 2, 1970, Ocotlán, Jalisco, Mexico) is a Mexican retired female boxer. Salazar, fought as a Heavyweight. She is former WBC world Heavyweight champion. Her nickname is "The Shadow". She hails from San Francisco, Cali ...
* Lisa Holewyne *Terri Cruz * Melissa Fiorentino * Pat Emerick *
David Avila David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...
* Stephen Blea *
Blanca Gutierrez Blanca (meaning "white" in Spanish) may refer to: Locations United States *Casa Blanca, California or Blanca, a former unincorporated community *Blanca, Colorado, a Statutory Town *Blanca Peak, a mountain in Colorado *Blanca Wetlands, a protecte ...
* Patricia Martinez-Pino


2020 class

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Boxers

* Sharon Anyos * Lisa Brown * Kelsey Jeffries * Michele Aboro *
Melinda Cooper Melinda "La Maravilla" Cooper (born 6 March 1985) is an American former professional boxer who held the WIBA and IBA flyweight titles and challenged for the IBF super-bantamweight championship during her 12-year career. She is a member of the ...
* Valerie Mahfood *
Mary Ortega Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a female given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religion * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blesse ...
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Isra Girgrah Isra Girgrah (born September 16, 1971) is a Yemeni-born American professional world champion female boxer. She was inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2020. Family and early life The Girgrah family is of the old gy ...
* Jaime Clampitt *
Graciela Casillas 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 fir ...


Non-boxing category

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Mary Ann Owen Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a female given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religion * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also called the Blesse ...
*Shelley Williams


2021 class

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Boxers

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Alicia Ashley Alicia Ashley (born August 23, 1967) is a Jamaican-American professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2018. She held the World Boxing Council (WBC) female super bantamweight title twice between 2011 and 2016. Ashley was inducted into the Inter ...
* Kathy Collins * Gina Guidi *
Bonnie Mann Bonnie J. Mann is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is known for her expertise on feminist philosophy. She is co-editor of ''Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy''. A central claim of her ...
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Anne Sophie Mathis Anne Sophie Mathis (born 23 July 1977) is a French former professional boxer who competed between 1995 and 2016. She held world titles in two weight division; the WBA female super-lightweight from 2006 to 2008; the WBC female super-lightweight ...
* Ina Menzer *
Natascha Ragosina Natalia Yurievna Ragozina (; born 5 April 1976), better known as Natascha Ragosina, is an undefeated retired Russian professional boxer who spent much of her career ranked as the top female super middleweight in the world. Career Though born i ...
* Marischa Sjauw * Dora Webber * Jo Wyman


Non-boxing category

* Roy Englebrecht * Carol Steindler


2022 class

International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame Announcement.


Boxers

* Eva Jones-Young *Margaret Sidoroff * Hannah Fox * Eliza Olson * Tori Nelson *
Fredia Gibbs Fredia "The Cheetah" Gibbs (born July 8, 1963), is an American professional kickboxer and Boxer (boxing), boxer, Martial artist and European basketball player who competed from 1975 to 2005. During her kickboxing career, she held three world t ...
*Brooke Dierdorff *
Tracy Byrd Tracy Lynn Byrd (born December 17, 1966) is an American country music artist. Signed to Universal Music Group Nashville, MCA Nashville Records in 1992, Byrd broke through on the country music scene that year with his 1993 single "Holdin' Heaven" ...
*Yvonne Reis * Delia Gonzalez *
Susi Kentikian Susianna Levonovna Kentikian (; born Syuzanna Kentikyan on 11 September 1987) is an Armenian-German former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2016. She was born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, but left the country with her family at the age ...
* Cora Webber


Non-boxing category

*Tom Gerbasi *Rose Byrd (Posthumous) *Jimmy Finn *Rose Trentman


2023 class

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Boxers

* Kaliesha West * Sonya Lamonakis *Laura Ramsey *Kim Messer *Leah Mellinger *
Jenifer Alcorn Jenifer Lynn Alcorn (born July 15, 1970) is an American retired, undefeated WIBA, IWBF, and IBA World Champion female professional boxer. She was inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2023. Early life and education ...
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Melissa McMorrow Melissa McMorrow Ramalho (born June 19, 1981) is an American professional boxer and architect. Professional career She is a former two time WBO female flyweight champion, having held the title from 2012 to 2013 and again in 2015, and held the W ...
* Yvonne Trevino *
Melissa Del Valle Melissa Del Valle (born June 2, 1969, in New York) is an American multiple champion in women's boxing. She was inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame in 2023. A member of a sports-minded family of Puerto Rican decent. Del ...


Non-boxing category

*Jill Diamond Chastain *Bruce Silverglade *Dallas Malloy


2024 class

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Boxers

*Agnieszka Rylik *
Daniella Smith Daniella Smith (born 30 July 1972, in Kaikohe, New Zealand) is a New Zealand former professional boxer. She became the first female fighter to win an IBF title, having held the welterweight version from 2010 to 2011, and is the third New Zeala ...
*Suzy Taylor *Rhonda Luna * María Jesús Rosa (Posthumous) * Jacqui Frazier-Lyde *Esther Schouten *Stacy Prestage *Sindy Amador


Non-boxing category

*Judy Kulis *
Lou Dibella Louis John DiBella Jr. is an American boxing promoter, minor league baseball team owner and television/film producer. Education DiBella was born in New York City, and he is a graduate of Regis High School later having continued his educatio ...
*Jenny Reid


Relation to the IBHOF

The International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame has no working relations with the
International Boxing Hall of Fame The International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF), located in Canastota, New York, right next to exit 34 of the New York State Thruway, honors boxers, trainers and other contributors to the sport worldwide. Inductees are selected on ballots cre ...
of
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See also

* Women Boxing Archive Network


References


External links

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