Hello and welcome to the premiere blog from The World Boxing Review Radio Show. This will be a ten episode report on who we are and what we do and serve as a countdown to the April 13th fight at the historic Boardwalk Hall on the beachfront in Atlantic City, NJ for the undisputed Women's World Middleweight Championship between the 8-0 Claressa Shields and the 24-0 Christina Hammer.
My name is Bob Murray and along with my partner, Hall of Fame Trainer of Champions Aaron Snowell, host a weekly show at blogtalkradio.com/theworldboxingreview where we interview old, current and rising stars of boxing. We were set to debut on September 9, 2017 but Hurricane Irma came along and destroyed. Our first scheduled guest, former WBC Middleweight champ Julian "The Hawk" Jackson was forced to cancel as his native St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands was devastated. We came on the following week (9/16/17) with undefeated former world champion James "Lights Out" Toney as our guest and it coincided with the first GGG/Alvarez bout. Past guests include Owen Beck, Nate Jones, Christy Martin, Tim Austin, Amy Hayes, Carl King, Gene Kilroy, Ira Glass, Debbie King and newly recognized World Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson's niece Linda Haywood. (More on Jack Johnson and the exhibit that Aaron has put together in a later blog).
On April 28, 2017, Aaron was inducted into the National Boxing Hall of Fame located in California and on June 2 he was then inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame in Atlantic City.
We first mentioned our desire to see these two great combatants (Shields and Hammer) on our January 6, 2018 show with Shields fighting Tori Nelson and Hammer fighting Lisa Noel Garland. We said it again on June 23rd when Hammer was fighting Nelson and Shields was defending three belts against Hanna Gabriels. September 29 was the date we announced the first fight which was to be November 17 in Atlantic City. We also announced the postponement of that battle.
In the ensuing blogs, I will cover the headliners and undercard participants, some of whom we are actively seeking interviews and other exciting details of this truly historic event. I'll let you know as things progress and thanks for checking us out.
Bob Murray
The World Boxing Review
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