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5'4" Sue TL Fox is an American Female boxer who fought professionally from 1976 to 1978. Fox found out about female boxing when she watched the news one day on October 24, 1975.  The news media was broadcasting the results of a female bout that had just taken place the night before between boxers, Caroline Svendsen, 34, and Jean Lange, 35, at the Expo Center, in Portland, Oregon.   The news revealed that the fight was the first sanctioned female bout in the State of Oregon.  When they reported that the women were paid to fight, it immediately hit Fox, who was a competitor as a Black Belt in Martial Arts was actually paying to fight in local karate tournaments.  Fox at the time had about 30 plus amateur fights competing mostly in the Northwest.

The next day, she began calling around to the boxing gyms in Portland, Oregon, to find out how a person would go about becoming a boxer. She made contact with Abe Tanzman who managed fighters. He immediately volunteered to take Fox under his wing as a manager.

Abe immediately set Fox up with a pro fight with Theresa "Red Star" Kibby. Fox was misled about the background of her opponent, by misinformation and without even a training facility in a proper boxing gym to train for the fight.

Two days before the fight, Fox found out through news sources of her opponent's actual experience, she contacted her manager to confront him about the undisclosed information but then told that she would be fighting three-minute rounds in the four round bout, instead of two-minute rounds. Fox was stopped in the fight in the third round by TKO.

From a shaky beginning in professional female boxing she eventually gained the skills to box by relocating to Southern California, and gaining the necessary skills to compete on that level. In the April 1979 issue of the Boxing Illustrated, Fox was world ranked #1 in the world as a super welterweight.

After she retired from boxing, Fox also pursued other ambitions, playing music professionally, becoming a police officer and detective from 1990 to 2008.

In May of 1998, she founded the Women Boxing Archive Network (WBAN), and then in 2014, she founded the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame. In February of 2012, Fox was named as one of the top ten female boxers of all time as one of the Most-Influential in the sport, by Ring Magazine, 90-year anniversary commemorative Issue.

On November 9, 2013, Fox was inducted into the Hall of Fame by the Golden State Boxers Association who honored eight females both Boxers and females outside the ring with California connections to the sport, who have made a significant impact in the world of boxing. Besides Fox, Layla McCarter, Lucia Rijker, Jacqui Richardson, Gwen Adair, Michele Chong, Carol Steindler received an induction Hall of Fame Award from this organization.

Fox has been inducted into the West Coast Boxing Hall of Fame in 2021.