WOMEN
PUGILISTS GET THEIR DUE
VICTORIAN
FEMALE BOXERS
ENTER HALL OF FAME
ANDREW
SALMON
Blood to the Bone is
the second Fight Card Sherlock Holmes tale to be penned by award winning
Sherlockian author Andrew Salmon. His first Fight Card Sherlock Holmes novel,
Work Capitol, is also available on as a Kindle e-book and in paperback…
The Bare Knuckle
Boxing Hall of Fame in Belfast, New York held an
induction ceremony on July 12th, 2014, where the great, unsung female boxing
greats of the Victorian age took their place amongst the legendary male
fighters of yesteryear as part of the rich history of the sport.
Elizabeth Wilkinson
(Stokes): Winner
of first ever recorded female bare knuckle fight in 1722.
Anna Lewis: Staged first Women's Championships, brought
publicity to the sport in the 1880s.
Hattie Stewart: First Female Bare Knuckle World Champion,
1884.
Hattie Leslie: First American Championess, 1888.
Alice Leary: A six-foot slugger, athlete, was 52-0 w/24
knockouts before losing to Hattie Leslie.
Hessie Donahue: Knocked out John L. Sullivan in 1892.
These great fighters, along with a selection
of modern day women pugilists, join the ranks of past inductees, including John
L. Sullivan, Jem Mace, James Figg, Jack Dempsey and dozens of others.
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