Women's International Boxing Hall of Fame

The International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame (IWBHF) is a sports hall of fame located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is dedicated to women's boxing, and was started by Barbara Buttrick. The Hall of Fame has a peculiar form of selecting candidates in that it allows fans to nominate them.Terri Moss, a 2015 inductee, says that the IWBHF helps show women's accomplishments in the sport. Their primary mission is to "call honorary attention to those professional female boxers (now retired) along with men and women whose contributions to the sport and its athletes, from outside the ring, have been instrumental in growing female boxing."

The International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame first surged as an idea in 2013. That year the WBAN, a website dedicated to women's boxing exclusively, announced that steps were being taken to open the Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame's first inductee class was announced in April, 2014, and its first induction ceremony took place on July 11, 2014, and was attended by among others, Claressa Shields, women's boxing gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

The International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame has no working relations with the International Boxing Hall of Fame of Canastota, New York.

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