Women’s boxing from around the amateurs!
AIBA Women's World Championship 2010 in Barbados
Cuban women’s boxing
It seems that Women’s Olympic boxing in 2012 will be minus one potential powerhouse team: Cuba. Why? Well as noted in a piece on Reuters yesterday, “Cuban head coach Pedro Roque was quoted as saying in 2009, when women’s boxing was added to the Olympic programme, that Cuban women “are made for beauty and not to take blows around the head”.
Hmmm.
Meanwhile, AIBA (International Amateur Boxing Association) officials stated yesterday that they are confident that the lure of gold will eventually sway Cuban officials to support women’s boxing at the elite amateur level, perhaps in time for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. The link to the full article is here.
Team USA to compete in prestigious Feliks Stamm Tournament in Warsaw, Poland, April 6-8
The United States along with 15 other nations will take part in three days of competition at the Feliks Stamm Tournament in Warsaw, Poland beginning tomorrow. The team sported by USA Boxing will consist of 2010 USA Boxing National Championship Silver medalist Tyrieshia Douglas, the 2010 National PAL and USA Boxing National Championship Bronze medalist Stephanie Han and the 2009 National Champion & 2010 National Golden Gloves Champion Alyssa DeFazio.
The team has been training at the Polish Olympic Training Center with the Polish and Italian Team readying for the competition. As noted by USA Boxing, “the event is the first international competition for the trio of women since the Women’s International Dual Series in Oxnard, Calif., in November and will provide valuable international experience for all the competitors prior to the Olympic debut of women’s boxing in 2012.” The link to the full article is here.
2011 USA National Championships!
2010 USA Boxing National Championships
The 2011 USA National Championships are set to run from June 19 – June 26, 2011 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.The published schedule is:
June 19: Arrival/Event Registration
June 20-24: Preliminary – Bronze medal bouts at the Colorado Springs Christian High School
June 25: Championship bouts at the City Auditorium
June 26: Departure
Participant forms are due by June 1st! The link to USA Boxing’s information sheet is here.
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Some of those beautiful, boxing ladies should give some blows to Pedro’s head. Maybe he’d come to and realize he’s living in 2011. 😉
Yep! That one truly got to me. It reads as some of the nasty comments on women’s boxing videos on YouTube. Just disgusting.