I never heard of any female boxers in the 70s and 80s. I thought women were only into kickboxing then?
In the 70’s and 80’s, we not only had to fight to get a bout, fight to get boxing licenses to get permission to fight, but in the 70’s and 80’s, it was not cool for a woman to want to box. We were called a “novelty.” The media did not give us a lot of coverage. Boxing promoters, boxing magazines, etc., were discouraged by featuring us. When Cathy “Cat” Davis was featured on the cover of Ring magazine, you would have thought the world was coming to an end. To my knowledge, Ring magazine never did any other feature stories on female boxers in that era.
