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Just for women sports 24/7 coming our way
by HeraeaMarketing
posted February 12, 2013 at 7:46pm

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Girls Fight Only Announces 38 Kickboxing Matches for 9th Event
by Wombat Sports
posted February 11, 2013 at 7:55am

For the 9th year, the Netherlands’s Team Schreiber gym will host their “Girl Fight Only” card in Wormer February 17. This year, 64 female fighters will participate in kickboxing. The junior division, which consists of...more

ESPN2 to Air Two Female Pro Boxing Bouts
by Wombat Sports
posted February 7, 2013 at 10:51pm

With the lack of U.S. television coverage of female boxing bouts, ESPN2 has stepped up to the plate, and will air two bouts in the coming month. Feb. 15, Aleksandra Lopes will take on Addy Irrizarry in a battle of welterweights. Lopes (8-1) hasn&rsq...;more

10 Frequently Asked Questions About Boxing After 40
by The Glowing Edge
posted February 7, 2013 at 10:14pm

  Is it safe to box in your forties? Are you likely to be injured? Should you even consider boxing if you have small children at home? That’s me, still boxing at 47. I started boxing at 42, I have a husband and three kids at home, and look...more

WBC champ Cecilia Braekhus to Take on Mia St. John; Holm to Fight at Bellator MMA
by Wombat Sports
posted January 28, 2013 at 8:07am

St. John Braekhus In an interesting turn of events,  WBC champ Cecilia Braekhus will be taking on Mia St. John in Denmark April 13. This after the WBC demanded that both Braekhus’s and Holly Holm’s management com...more

Tiffany Van Soest TKOs Rufus in Lion Fights TV Debut on AXS
by Wombat Sports
posted January 28, 2013 at 7:54am

In what was a pretty close battle until the end, Tiffany Van Soest showed her tenacity and great sense of timing to get land a head kick to get the victory Friday night at Lion Promotions Muay Thai in Las Vegas, which aired on AXS TV. Van Soest (now 6-0-...more

The Hairball to Joy Ratio in Competitive Boxing
by The Glowing Edge
posted January 27, 2013 at 11:47am

  I’m still in that slightly blurry stage of tired where I don’t seem to have much to say about losing my fight in Atlanta this week. Actually, I have plenty to say (it’s what I do, no?), but very little of it is about the fight it...more

Female Business Professionals Put up Dukes for Charity in Atlanta Thursday
by Wombat Sports
posted January 27, 2013 at 11:40am

Courtesy Action Fighter Media The White Collar workers were ready to roll up their selves and glove up this past Thursday as Atlanta’s Corporate Fight Night started it’s 2013 season. Promoter Terri Moss (a former fighter) has bee...more

The “Screw It” Moment of Training for a Fight
by The Glowing Edge
posted January 17, 2013 at 9:43am

  If you had asked me last Friday “How’s training for your fight going? How are you feeling?” you might have heard me growl and scowl and say I didn’t give a damn anymore. I was wholly, mortally sick. Of. It. Done. Sc...more

What to Do When You Get Hit HARD in Sparring
by The Glowing Edge
posted January 11, 2013 at 9:03pm

Most of the time in boxing sparring, you’re not working with your full power, because if you were, you’d have a pretty short shelf life. Save that shit for the fight, you know? But because nearly everyone spars with people waaay outside their weigh...more

Atlanta Fight Night 6: A Black Tie, Black Eye Affair
by The Glowing Edge
posted January 7, 2013 at 5:22pm

This is not your average amateur boxing fight night. This is no drafty, poorly lit gym or warehouse with 50 metal folding chairs and questionable plumbing. Atlanta Corporate Fight Night is a top-of-the-line luxury boxing event, and it may be the only on...more

X-Ring Boxing Workout (OR, Non-Boxing Training is NOTHING Like Boxing Training)
by The Glowing Edge
posted January 4, 2013 at 8:23am

Since my gym is connected to at-risk students, it’s closed over the holidays. Which simply means I train in a horrible, cheap-ass purple and yellow joint (because it’s $10/month), or in the park. All of which was fine, or so I thought, for the 3 we...more

RTE Sports Personality goes to Katie Taylor
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted December 24, 2012 at 11:31pm

RTE Sports Personality of the YearKatie Taylor was named RTE Sports Personality of the Year last night. More than well-deserved. Taylor has not only put herself on the map but has single-handedly changed Irish people’s attitudes to boxing. The man...more

Wordless Wednesday
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted December 19, 2012 at 8:42pm

Sylvie von Duuglas -Ittu is an American fighter training MuayThai in Thailand - come back tomorrow for her interview.Other Wordless Wednesday bloggers hanging out here. ...more

How to Spar When You’re Dead-Ass Tired
by The Glowing Edge
posted December 13, 2012 at 7:36pm

I’m deep in training for my next fight, and recently had the opportunity to travel to a nearby gym to get sparring rounds with a group of people whose fighting habits I wasn’t already accustomed to. Amazingly (and for the first time in my e...more

Femme Fatale Boxing Card Hits Vancouver Saturday
by Wombat Sports
posted December 6, 2012 at 7:16am

Two pro bouts and several amateur boxing bouts will be going down Friday night in Vancouver, Canada. The main event will feature Sarah Pucek taking on Lucia Larcinese for the vacant Canadian featherweight title. Also on the pro side of the card,&nbs...;more

How to Train FASTER
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 26, 2012 at 6:16pm

I’m officially about 8 weeks out from my next fight, which is just the right amount of time I need to set up my training goals. About a year ago I started categorizing the main areas of my boxing training, and since then I’ve refined my syst...more

Don’t Give Your Brain to Boxing Zombies
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 21, 2012 at 7:25am

It’s been a busy week. I spent most of it on the road, driving the seven hours to Atlanta for the pre-fight press conference and photo shoot for Atlanta Corporate Fight Night. Before that, though, I scrambled madly to make sure I had all my work s...more

Tiffany Junot Upsets Mia St. John; Becomes WBC Light Middleweight Boxing Champ
by Wombat Sports
posted November 17, 2012 at 8:56pm

Junot With only two weeks notice, Tiffnay Junot went from starting to prepare to face Mia St. John to becoming WBC Light Middleweight champ. Junot (10-3-1) had lost via unanimous decision to Kuulei Kupihea this past July, but stepped up when after Mol...more

Two Years After Being Shot, Boxing Champ Rola el-Halabi to Return to the Ring
by Wombat Sports
posted November 15, 2012 at 8:15am

Courtesy Sydney Morning Herald Former boxing champ Rola El-Halabi isn’t going to let getting shot foil her dreams of being the dominate boxer she wants to continue to be. It was April 2011 when El-Halabi’s step-father and former ...more

Two Female Bouts Set for Muay Thai Madness 3
by Wombat Sports
posted November 14, 2012 at 8:25pm

Gladstone Continuing the Great White North’s solid kickboxing tradition, two female bouts are a part of Muay Thai Madness 3 on November 24, 2012 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Canadian lightweight Champion Jessica Gladstone is set to fa...more

Interview with Catherine J. Howard
by The Glowing Edge
posted November 13, 2012 at 9:07pm

  Catherine Howard doesn’t sit still very often. Her love for traveling keeps her from settling down in one place, and she’s about to head off on a 13-country art collective journey, but for a few weeks now the two of us have been traini...more

World Champion boxer Deirdre Gogarty visits Ireland
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted November 13, 2012 at 6:44pm

The walls of St Saviour’s Boxing Gym in Dublin are covered with photos of tough-looking men, gloved-up and ready to fight. But next to Muhammed Ali, there’s a photo of Deirdre Gogarty with a World Title belt around her waist. World Champi...more

IBA Champ Holly Holm to Defend Title Against Diana Prazak
by Wombat Sports
posted November 9, 2012 at 8:11am

Prazak Holm After regaining her International Boxing Associaition belt this past June, Holly Holm is looking to defend it, plus gain some more gold. Standing in her way is a quickly rising star in Australian Diana Prazak. Prazak will face Holm Dece...more

Tiana Caverley & Jemyma Betrian to Battle for WBC Muay Thai Bantamweight Title
by Wombat Sports
posted November 7, 2012 at 8:25am

Betrian Caverley Coming off a third round TKO win, WBC Muay Thai champ Tiana Caverley will make the trip from her homeland of Australia to Las Vegas to take on the Netherland’s Jemyma Betrian Sunday at the Plaza Hotel. The two ...more

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