Women's boxing is the best in history. Never before have women's bouts headlined so many sold-out shows in major arenas around the world and brought unprecedented paychecks to the fighters.
The path has been paved by pioneers. Barbara Buttrick in the 1940s and his 50s, Jackie Tonawanda and Marian Trimier in the 1970s and his 80s, Christy Martin (active 1989-2012) and many others have shattered that perception. , campaigned to give women's boxing a platform.
Laila Ali and Lucia Ryker, granddaughters of the legendary Muhammad Ali (along with Buttrick and Martin, the first women to be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame), would then carry the torch until the end of the century, taking women's martial arts to a new level. I pulled it up.
Standing on the shoulders of these giants is the current generation who have taken over the mantel and elevated women's boxing to stratospheric levels. Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields hold similar superstar status as the biggest male boxers, and Amanda Serrano, Alicia Baumgardner, and Savannah Marshall are household names.
Taylor and Serrano will make history in 2022 as the first women to headline an event at Madison Square Garden in New York City, as well as the first to win a $1 million purse. became a female fighter.