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Notes: 11/22/05
- Last Minute cancellation
- Then was scheduled to fight Cassandra Geiggar five days later-Canadian
promoters moved to have Robinson suspended--then a press release came
out that this event was cancelled. Story
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December 10, 2005 - Chicago, Illinois
Leatitia Robinson (14-0,9KOs) won a six-round unanimous
decision over Casandra Geiggar (6-7, 6KOs). The judges’
scores were unanimous, 60-54 all for Robinson.
November 18,
2005 -
Shaw Conference Center, in
Edmonton, Canada (ROBINSON
CANCELLED OFF THIS CARD) In the All-women's boxing card, "World Title Wave",
proved to be a very entertaining card. The event was telecast on Webcast, via Pay-Per-View, through
aringoftheirown.com.
The first fight of the
night featured Shelly Burton, 157.5, of Montana, vs. Laura "Lady Ram"
Ramsey, 163.5, of Winter Haven, Florida. Burton was supposed to
fight Laetitia Robinson, but the Burton Team was notified just shortly
before boarding their aircraft, going to Edmonton, that Robinson dropped
off the card when she was not medically cleared, due to an injury to her
nose. They were told at that time that Burton would be
fighting Laura Ramsey. Ramsey taking the fight on a 72 hour
notice.
The Burton-Ramsey bout was set for 10 rounds and they were fighting for
the vacant WIBA Intercontinental Super Middleweight. The bout was
action-filled for the two, and both displayed toughness throughout the
fight. Burton won by a majority decision, with the judges scoring the bout
97-93, 95-95, and 97-93. This was Ramsey's first loss as a pro. (Excerpt)
February 11, 2005 - Atlanta, Georgia, and on ESPN2 "Friday
Night Fights"
Laila Ali, 168, successfully defended her WIBA belt when she stopped
CaSandra Geiggar, 170,
1:13 second in the eight round by TKO. Leatitia Robinson,
167,
KO1 Monica Nunez, 164. David Avila
wrote the following: "Down in Atlanta,
Laila Ali pounded on Cassandra Geigger for nine rounds before finally
forcing the Arkansas prizefighter to capitulate. Ali dispensed with her
jab and speed while concentrating on power shots. It was a heavy toll
for the light heavyweight title-holder who looked like she emptied the
entire arsenal in the last two rounds.
After the fight, Ali hugged Geigger, that was good to see. The Los
Angeles-based fighter showed a lot of class with her post-fight
appreciation of Geigger’s toughness. Though it was a one-sided affair,
Ali would have destroyed most any other fighter in the first three
rounds. And if you saw the first fight on the Atlanta fight card,
you would have seen Leatitia Robinson drop Monica Nunez with the first
left hook she landed. It was right on the button and left the Dominican
fighter immobile. Robinson facing Ali will be the fight of the
year. Now it looks like there are two real challenges for Ali with
Robinson, and of course, Ann Wolfe. Wolfe’s team sent me a reply
on Friday that they did offer a sizeable amount to fight Ali and Ali’s
team said they also offered a sizeable amount to fight Wolfe. Maybe an
arbitrator is needed for the negotiations. It’s a fight that has to be
made."
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Hot, What's Not Results (Ali-Geigger) What's
Hot, What's Not Results (Robinson - Nunez)
.Special
Editorial by Bernie McCoy
September 24, 2004 - Atlanta, Georgia
 WBAN
Record Member's photo Gallery #207 - weigh-in; MPEG Gallery of
Post Fight Conference #208, Trish Hill vs. Lisa Pederson, Gallery #210,
Laila Ali vs. Gwendolyn O'Neil, Gallery #211, and Janaya Davis vs.
Elizabeth Kerin, Gallery #212, Valerie Mahfood vs. Robinson #213
In front of over 6, 000 boxing fans, Laila Ali, 174 1/4, now 19-0
(16KO), KO3 1:59 second, Gwendolyn
O'Neil, 175. Ali won the (IWBF) International Women's Boxing
Federation light heavyweight championship. News sources reported, that Ali
knocked O'Neil down twice in the second round, each time with a right hand
to the chin. Ali began pounding O'Neil late in the third round and
ended the fight with a barrage of punches to the face, knocking O'Neil down
in a neutral corner where she sat stunned as she was counted out.
O'Neil, from Guyana, fell to 9-4-1 (6KO); Super-Middleweights
Leatitia
Robinson, 168 1/4, UD10 Valerie Mahfood, 168 3/4. Robinson new
IBA Continental Champ. final judges scores 99-89, 100-88, 98-90;
Janaya Davis
defeats Elizabeth Kerin, 168. Final judges scores 40-36; 40-36;
39-37.; and Featherweights Trish Hill, 130, Majority decision win over
Lisa Pederson, 130.
Final judges scores 60-54; 60-54; 57-57 (WBAN is trying to confirm that this
was a Split decision or majority decision for Hill.)
February 28, 2004 -
Memorial Field House, in Huntington, West Virginia
Photos
Report by Brian Ackley - WBAN Senior Editor
At this rate, there isn’t going to be much hardware left in
the middleweight division. Chicago’s Leatitia Robinson
outworked and outskilled hometowner Nikki Eplion to
score an easy unanimous decision Saturday night to collect her
second world championship belt in as many months -- this one
the WIBA version -- getting the nod on all three scorecards by
99-91, 98-92 and 97-93. The pair entered the evening’s main
attraction with a combined record of 24-0-2, with 16
knockouts, and most women’s ratings organizations have them as
the top two ranked boxers in the division. But an anticipated
slugfest never materialized as Eplion spent much
of the bout holding and retreating
from Robinson’s classier attack. "I’ve been waiting a whole
year for this," said "Baby Girl" Robinson, who clearly had no
love lost against her 25 year-old opponent who predicted a
third round KO at the weigh in. Robinson won her first belt in
December, 2002, with a sixth-round stoppage of Dakota Stone,
and had her first successful defense of that IWBF title just
last month in decisioning Yvonne Reis. "We tried to
fight Nikki Eplion last year and when our people talked to her
people they said she wasn’t ready, she needed a few more
fights, " said Robinson, 23. "So I was going to wait until
whenever she was ready because I knew I could beat her. And I
knew that she could not beat me no matter how much she said
she could." Robinson, on top of her unblemished mark as
a pro, also had 38 fights in an amateur career that started at
age 14. Eplion is a graduate of the Appalachian Toughwoman
circuit, a difference in backgrounds that become quickly
evident early in the fight. It was clearly a huge step up in
competition for the South Point, Ohio, resident, who’s best
career wins came last August, an eight round decision over
veteran Mary Ann Almager, and a four-round decision against
Yvonne Reis last June. "She gave me exactly what I
expected from her, nothing," Robinson said. "She basically
didn’t have any love for me when she told me she was going to
knock me out and this was going to be the worst beating of my
life. I wanted to show her you are not a boxer, you’re a
toughman, and when you become a boxer, that’s when you can get
in the ring and discuss something with me." Eplion, who
was more no attack than the moniker No Slack embroidered on
her purple trunks, did not speak with any media after the
fight, and disappointed many fans who waited until well after
midnight to try to offer their encouragement. Manager Ken
Artrip noted that Eplion is a single mother of two children
who also works two jobs, and that she could not get any time
off before the fight to fully and properly prepare. "She was
worn out," before she ever got in the ring, he indicated. "We
had a little setback, but she’ll still go on," according to
Eplion’s trainer Charlie Hanshaw. "We knew what was coming. I
told everybody this would be a tough fight." There were
no knockdowns, and neither fighter appeared seriously hurt at
any point of the fight, which was delayed after a late
decision changing from twelve ounce to ten ounce gloves. The
partisan crowd of some 800 at Huntington’s Veteran’s Memorial
Fieldhouse tried to spark their local hero with frequent
chants of "Nikki, Nikki,", but it didn’t effect Robinson in
the least. "No, not at all," Robinson said. "We were able to
box and beat her to the punch every time, make her miss, make
her get frustrated by going from side to side, switching all
the time. We wanted to do that and that’s what I did."
Robinson has her sights set on Shrivelle William’s and Valerie
Mahfood as potential future opponents, she indicated.
January
30, 2004 - Worcester's National Guard Armory, Massachusetts
In the co-main event, in front of about 1,000 boxing fans, an promoted by
Pendarvis Boxing Promotions, Middleweight
Leatitia “Baby Girl” Robinson,160, now 10-0-0 (8KO) successfully
defended her IWBF Middleweight title, when she won a 10-round unanimous
decision over Yvonne Reis, 159, now
3-2-1, of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Final scoring was 98-92, 100-90, and
100-90. In a second's women's match and in a rematch for the two,
Denise Moses, 125, Lawrence,
Massachusetts, stopped Wanda Satterthwait,
121, Philadelphia, PA, in the second round. Satterhwait did not come
out for the second round. when Satterthwait did not answer the bell for
the second round. In their first contest, Moses stopped Satterhwait
in the second round....It is now time for Moses to move on to other
opponents. Apparently Satterhwait was a last-minute replacement when
Anita Parker did not fight on this card against Moses. Moses improved her
record to 3-0-0 (3KO), and Satterhwait remains winless with a 0-4-0
record.
December 14, 2002
-National Guard Armory, in Dorchester, Massachusetts
Leaticia Robinson, now 9-0-0 (8KO), stopped Dakota Stone,
5-3-3 (0KO), in the sixth round. The fight was scheduled for a
10-round IWBF Middleweight world title. In a seconds women's boxing,
Danielle Bouchard, Laval, Quebec, won by a four-round split
decision over Trisha Hill, Atlanta, Georgia.
September 13, 2002 - National Guard
Armory, Braintree, Maine
Leaticia "Baby Girl" Robinson TKO2 Evelyn Holley.
According to news sources, Holley retired after the first round. Robinson
improved her record to 9-0-0 (8KO), and Holley slipped to 1-3-0
(1KO).
June 28, 2002, Roseland
Ballroom, Taunton, MA
On a Pendarvis
Boxing Promotions, Chicago's Leaticia Robinson stopped
TKO3 Norma Galloway in a scheduled four rounder in the
super-middle division. Robinson is now 7-0-0 (6KO). Galloway has dropped
1-2-1.
November
21, 2001 Rosemont, Illinois
Middleweights Leaticia
Robinson of Chicago TKO1 1:48 Genevia
Buckhalter of Columbus, Mississippi. Robinson who has an extensive
amateur background of (37-1), moved her record to 5-0 (4KO).
Buckhalter has dropped to 2-9-1 (2KO).
October 17, 2001 Rosemont,
Illinois
Leaticia Robinson of Chicago TKO3 Jeanine Tracy.
Robinson improved her record to 5-0 (4 KOs) and Tracy dropped to 3-5. News
sources reported that this Tracy was overmatched with the much more
experienced Robinson who has an extensive amateur record of 37-1.
June
14, 2001 -
Chicago, Illinois
Leaticia
Robinson
won a
very close unanimous decision against Karen Bill in a four-rounder in
Chicago, Illinois, Robinson's hometown area. Bill said that her
opponent was "very-welled schooled at moving around." Bill was a
last-minute opponent for Robinson."
May 8, 2001 East St. Louis, Illinois
Leaticia
Robinson of Chicago, and a 2000 USA Boxing national 165-lb
champion, TKO1 Theresa Oprysk of Indiana, (Super-welterweight).
Robinson improved her record to 2-0 (2KO).
March 23, 2001 Rosemont, Illinois
Leaticia
Robinson, 158, of Chicago won
her pro debut with a first-round TKO over Alcheria Bell, 160, of
Wisconsin in a scheduled 4-rounder. Robinson went 37-1 as an amateur. Bell
is 0-4 as a pro boxer.
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