Women Boxing in 1920's

[GeoVII]

It's funny, today we'd look at female boxers applying makeup and cry 'exploitation' or 'sexism', but you have to hand it to them: to step into a ring, beat the crap out of a another woman for three rounds, take said beating, and still take the time to look great while doing it is not so much objectified as it is dignified.

[cjjaxxon]

Roseland Ballroom where?

[eslubin]

this look like my grandmother fighting her best friend!

[WillieG1990]

I had no idea women actually fought back then!

[ajnadeen]

they actually allowed feamle boxing in the 1920's?

that is news to me!

[EbonVoicez]

Why the hell do they need makeup? It's gonna get messed up.

[rflp4682]

!! 1920's? Wow..Didn't know women boxed way back then.

[WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

@rflp4682

In the United Kingdom, women boxed as far back as the 1720s, and those fights could often be as bloody and brutal as the men; but it wasn't well documented because the women were often very poor.

[SkunkyBeaumont]

@MorroccoSurrogate

I don't know if they're that talented.  I didn't see them try to dodge one punch through out the entire fight.

[boohiss3]

this music is too much

[MelanieLouM]

Where's Clint Eastwood when you need him?? He needs to be training those Million Dollar Babies!! ^_^

[eslubin]

@MelanieLouM adjusted for inflation that would be able $80,000 babies. :D

[JohnMacLGP]

no body shots..... were are their breast protectors, where are their breasts ???

are these "real women" ........??

[artaxias]

These women are dead now.

[AfricanAnime]

They groomed her and everything!

I can't believe we had ladies fighting almost a hundred years ago....

[lhkjk]

we had women fight since humans were on this earth, pal.

it's human nature

[MorroccoSurrogate]

Women boxing in a ring, though, is a hell of a lot more recent. This case is really done as a joke.

[Pete8910]

Excellent Clip. Nostalgia and good sexy boxing. Perfect.

[Carmen7]

Splendid !

[femalewrestlingfan]

Interesting that our thing has a history to it.