User:A Thousand Doors/Margaret McGregor vs. Loi Chow


 * negative review; Margaret McGregor, a 36-year-old professional boxer and landscaper, made history when she beat Loi Chow, a man, over four rounds at the then Mercer Arena in Seattle. This was the first sanctioned contest of its type; the eight minutes of boxing -- four two-minute rounds; The Washington State Licensing Department had sanctioned the fight, citing state law which did not consider gender difference as an issue; McGregor received $1,500 for her night's work; audience of 3,000 -- around a third of them women, more women than usual had attended; Loi Chow was a part-time jockey;  worldwide audience including television cameras and journalists from around 15 countries; McGregor won all four rounds; in 1999, women's boxing was having a resurgence
 * negative review; fight took place in October 1999; Margaret McGregor had had three professional bouts and had won them all; idea came from Bob Jarvis, a boxing manager; Loi Chow received $1500; Washington State Department of Licensing had no issue with it; National Association of Boxing Commissions made strong objections; their ages
 * "not a fair fight", McGregor won all four rounds; Loi Chow was a jockey; Loi Chow had had two professional matches and had lost them both(?); McGregor was 36 and from Bremerton, Wash., Chow was 33 and from Vancouver; audience of 2,768; MacGregor cheers, Chow booed; Chow blamed his loss on his high blood pressure, saying it peaked at 185 over 115; all three judges scored 40-36 in McGregor's favor,
 * [same as above source]
 * Bob Jarvis had been working with boxing promoter Jim Rupp on the first-ever co-ed boxing fight between Martin O’Malley and Christy Martin; McGregor was signed to box Hector Morales on October 9, 1999 in his professional debut, but he backed out; Loi Chow stepped in; McGregor won all four rounds on all three of the judges’ scorecards; McGregor finished her boxing career at the end of 1999 with a professional record of 5-1. Chow never boxed again, retiring with a professional record of 0-3
 * small amount of women's boxing context; McGregor won in unanimous decision; took place on October 9, 1999; 2,768 attended the Mercer Arena, spending a total of $75,705 to be there; first professional man-vs.-woman boxing match in U.S. history; in the first round, fans screamed "He's a bum" and "Kill him, Margaret!"; bboxing analyst Steve Farhood's opinion; each offered $1500; Officials with both men's and women's boxing worried the male-female match would set the sport back; a promoter offered $3000 to back out;
 * Both fighters predicted knocking out the other; state of Washington declared that its gender-equity laws give it no authority and indeed no reason to prevent the match; Seattle; Oct. 9 at Seattle's Mercer Arena; four-round lightweight fight; an undercard to a longer fight between two men; Marc Ratner, executive director of the state's Athletic Commission: "men should fight men, and women should fight women"; Bert Sugar's "circus" opinion; McGregor is 3-0 fighting other women in the ring and 8-0-1 as a professional kick boxer; Chow was a jockey and weight lifter from Vancouver, British Columbia; McGregor was a part-time landscaper from Bremerton; she was 5'5", he was 5'2"; comparison with Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs battle of the sexes; "You can't discriminate against anybody on the basis of gender" said Suzanne Taylor, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Licensing, adding: "What we're concerned about is the safety of the fighters, and we wouldn't approve the fight if it was not safe"; Dale Ashley, former head of the boxing commission, described it as "absolute madness"; officials with the International Female Boxers Association also objected; fight took place one night after Muhammad Ali's 21-year-old daughter, Laila, made professional debut in a fight against another woman; 12% of Nevada fights are between women; women's rounds are 2mins compared to 3mins for men; the promoter Bob Jarvis came up with the idea for the fight when could not find a woman to fight McGregor; she was originally to fight Hector Morales; each fighters received $1500; Chow predicted fight would be over in less than a minute;
 * four-round victory over Loi Chow of Vancouver, B.C., on Oct. 9, 1999; Media organizations from 14 different countries requested credentials for the battle of the sexes; In the days leading up to the bout, McGregor was part of Jay Leno's monologue on "The Tonight Show"; After the fight, she was a special guest of Columbia Pictures for Seattle's premier showing of the movie "The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc."; McGregor was 3-0 against women boxers and 8-0-1 as a pro kickboxer; her trainer was Vern Miller; Seattle promoter Bob Jarvis suggested the idea to Miller, who then proposed it to McGregor; McGregor was 139lb, Choi was 130lb;
 * first time a man fought a woman in a sanctioned boxing match; later that month, a man and woman fought in a kickboxing match;
 * Legendary boxing historian Bert Sugar dismissed the event as a "circus".; Rousey-Mayweather fight legacy; Choi was a part-time jockey and weightlifter


 * http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Loi_Chow_vs._Margaret_MacGregor
 * UNFINISHED (don't use as source?)