MAN VERSUS WOMAN Ann Wolfe 22-1 (15 KO's) vs. Bo Skipper 11-3(7 KO's) Fight in a Professional Boxing Match
Can a woman defeat a man in a brutal combat sport such as professional boxing? Find out October 15, 2005 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi, MS as Ann Wolfe battles Bo Skipper in the first sanctioned intergender bout in professional boxing history.
Southaven, Miss. (PRWEB) August 27, 2005 -- On October 15, 2005 Ann Wolfe
will enter the ring against Bo Skipper in the first ever sanctioned inter-gender
bout in professional boxing history.
Wolfe 22-1 (15 KO's), having no
other direction to go with her career due to Laila Ali's failure to make the
fight, will step out of the realms of female prize fighting and attempt to do
battle with a man.
"This isn't about Bo Skipper. This is about me
fighting an opponent of equal skill level to myself. I have never said I can
beat all the men out there," stated Wolfe at the press conference in Biloxi, MS
on August 22nd.
"I'm coming to knock Ann Wolfe out. I am coming to prove
that no woman belongs in the ring with a man in a professional boxing event.
I've never hit a woman in my life, my daddy would have kicked my tail if I would
have. But it is different in the ring. In the ring she is not a woman or a
man.....she is a boxer," stated a confident Bo Skipper after the press
conference Monday.
This has been done in sports from tennis, to golf and
cart racing but never in a sport that requires one on one combat such as boxing.
The only rule change for the 8 round bout will be that there will be 2 1/2
minute rounds rather than the typical 3 minutes in a men's fight and 2 minutes
in a woman's fight. This fight has been sanctioned by the Mississippi Atheletic
Commisssion.
"I would not have put Bo in this fight if I did not think he
can win. This will be a legitimate event and may the best person win," stated
the promoter Brian Young.
Ann Wolfe's managers and promoters have tried
and tried again to make the fight between Wolfe and the undefeated Ali. Ali was
offered unprecedented dollars and pay per view percentages but would not sign to
fight Wolfe. With Wolfe having defeated all of the woman other than Ali, even
doubling and tripling up on a few of them, there is no other direction for her
to go with her professional boxing career.
"I have a lot of fight left in
me. What am I suppose to do sit back and watch everyone else make money in this
sport? I won't do that. This is about me continuing my career by any means
necessary," an angry Wolfe stated at the press conference.
For more
information on this bout and to schedule appearances with Ann Wolfe or Bo
Skipper please call Prize Fight boxing at 662-349-6263. All requests for media
credentials should be faxed to 662-349-8343.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb277232.htm