A Labor of Gloves

A Labor of Gloves

By Joe Posnanski | February 26, 2004 – KANSAS CITY STAR: Round I. This is a basement. It is in an ordinary-looking house on a street in Johnson County…. Read the Full Article...

A Labor of Gloves

By Joe Posnanski | February 26, 2004 – KANSAS CITY STAR: Round I. This is a basement. It is in an ordinary-looking house on a street in Johnson Country. there’s a full-sized boxing ring. And there’s a massage table. There are four championship boxing belts. And there’s a mother hugging her...
Why Not the Best….A Conversation with Sumya Anani

Why Not the Best….A Conversation with Sumya Anani

by Bernie McCoy | February 24, 2004 – EAST SIDE BOXING: What’s the problem with the sport of Women’s boxing? Here’s a pretty big contributor to the sport’s woes: the fighter who many consider the best in the sport, Sumya Anani, still in the rpime of her career, has fought 12 rounds of boxing in the past 20 months. Sumya Anani is the fighter about whom Teddy Atlas said, after watching her leave a very tough Jane Couch slumped on the ropes in the fourth round of the June ’02 bout on ESPN, “Anani not only knows what she’s doing in the ring, but knows…” Read the full article...

Christy Martin’s Conqueror

January 2004 | Sumya Anani is rated #1 in the IFBA, boxrec, and is the champ on boxrec. She was rated above Lucia Rijker in the World Boxing magazine’s women’s p4p list, and The Ring magazine voted her the best...