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Power Up, Women

by Lisa Creech Bledsoe on December 17, 2010 · 5 comments

in Boxing

I need to travel over to Athletic Women Blog more regularly, because every time I go I get dosed up with a massive hit of all-out inspiration. Look people, I know this video is a advert for UnderArmor (which I do in fact wear), but the fact is that any commercial that powers me up like this is a win. For them, for me, for my game. Women love to kick ass and take names, don’t we?

Here’s another one, also poached from Rob Mars at AWB, that does the same thing and it’s not even selling me stuff. It’s just an incredible show of woman power in its most graceful and (potentially) dangerous form. I clearly need to sign up for ballet lessons. Somebody hand me a sword.

Finally, I can’t seem to get embed support on this one, but check out this women’s boxing newsreel, dated 1928, from British Pathe. Again, posted by Rob on AWB. It cracks me up that the woman (who is boxing a man) is wearing her boxing boots with a fringed leotard. She flat out rocks, too.

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Fighting Burnout

April 12, 2010
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The following post was written by my good friend June Elliot. June and I both train at the same home gym and have watched each other cycle through the inevitable physical and mental ups and downs in our respective sports. June has studied Okinowan karate, taekwondo, hapkido, Wing-Chun, Chin-Na, Mauy Thai, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. She’s [...]

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Elizabeth Lambert, Part 2

November 13, 2009
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The Elizabeth Lambert story has captured tremendous mainstream attention and generated some good conversation (and some garbage, of course). After posting my own response, reading widely and talking intently about the video, I believe that there are two really helpful questions we should be centering our discussion around: In this hypercompetitive society, what do we [...]

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Elizabeth Lambert: Where is the Outrage?

November 7, 2009

I’ve watched this video over and over again now, and I still can’t understand why, in any of these egregiously unsporting incidents, none of the women mistreated by Elizabeth Lambert turned around to treat this woman to an elbow in her jaw. The ugliness unfolds in a kind of crazy silence — Lambert punches a [...]

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Flight Fight Sports

November 5, 2009
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It’s Google’s fault. I typed in “fight sports” and they asked, in that oh-so-superior voice, “Did you perhaps mean FLIGHT sports, Hon?” No, you morons. I might misspell Hervé Villechaize but I’ve GOT this one, thanks. Sheez. Anyway, I posted the error to Facebook, and suddenly a Flight Fight meme was born. Matt, the joker, [...]

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Are You A Feminist?

November 2, 2009
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I was recently interviewed by Marie Hardin from Penn State’s Center for Sports Journalism about how women who blog about sports are empowered through blogging and use their sites for feminist activism. It was a pleasure to speak with her about my blog, my boxing, feminism, women’s sports in general and the Women Talk Sports [...]

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How Boxing is Better than 11 Other Sports and Hobbies

October 6, 2009
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Boxing is like playing underwater chess in a swimming pool filled with sharks. You have to keep moving, it’s hard to concentrate, and you feel like you just can’t get enough air. But I love it anyway, and whenever someone asks me why I can’t take up a more reasonable sport I ask them what [...]

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Women Not Big Fans of Pro Sports, and Editors Still Use Sex to Sell Reporting to Men

September 5, 2009
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This infuriates me. Not the report on this study, which I found interesting, if not surprising, but the stupid decision to slap a cheesecake photo of a cheerleader at the top. It’s so damn hard to get any respect, I swear it is. Go ahead. I’ll wait while you click through. Professional cheerleaders are incredible [...]

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Women’s Boxing to be Included in 2012 Olympics

August 13, 2009
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Finally, the last “No Girls Allowed” sign has been pulled down from the Summer Olympic games. August 13th, 2009: International Olympic Committee chair Jacques Rogge announced today that the 2012 London Olympics will be the first to feature women competing in every single sport. Mr. Rogge said: “I can only rejoice about the decision to [...]

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Fiiiight! Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg

August 10, 2009

This Saturday it happens. Gina “Conviction” Carano (7-0) and Cris “Cyborg” Santos (7-1) will become the first women in MMA history to headline a major MMA fight card. I don’t know if you watch boxing or MMA, but if you watch women’s sports at all this is going to be a groundbreaking event across the [...]

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