{"id":7768,"date":"2021-04-13T07:04:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boxbiba.com\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2021-04-13T07:04:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:04:33","slug":"quartet-of-national-champions-star-on-historic-british-all-female-pro-boxing-event-on-24th-april-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/?p=7768","title":{"rendered":"QUARTET OF NATIONAL CHAMPIONS STAR ON HISTORIC BRITISH ALL FEMALE PRO BOXING EVENT ON 24TH APRIL 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six time, five division World Champion and Promoter <strong>Lee Mcallister<\/strong> and the <strong>British &amp; Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA)<\/strong> jointly announced an historic all female professional boxing event, titled <strong>LET BATTLE COMMENCE &#8211; THE LIONESSES, in association with Bounty Competitions, RDX, Empire Pro Tape and Go Sports &amp; Entertainment<\/strong> that will take place in the United Kingdom on Saturday 24th April 2021 and will be broadcast <strong>live and free to view<\/strong> on <strong>FITE TV<\/strong> as well as further linear and digital channels globally (please check local listings)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date the <strong>LET BATTLE COMMENCE<\/strong> series, which were broadcast live on <strong>FITE TV<\/strong> and delayed broadcast in the UK on <strong>Sports Channel Network<\/strong> (Freeview\/YouView Channel 265), has featured female contests on all events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The inaugural <strong>LET BATTLE COMMENCE<\/strong> event took place on the 18th July 2020 and hosted the professional boxing debut of ten time Kick Boxing World Champion <strong>Caitlin Foran<\/strong> against PBC International Silver Champion <strong>Jaime Bates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LET BATTLE COMMENCE II<\/strong>, which was broadcast live on Friday 4th September 2020, featured three female contests, the first featured PBC International Silver Super Flyweight Champion <strong>Nicola Hopewell<\/strong> versus <strong>Tasha Boyes<\/strong>, also featured on the card were Elite Amateur Stars <strong>Hollie Towl<\/strong> and <strong>Ellie Coulson<\/strong> who made their respective professional boxing debuts against <strong>Jaime Bates<\/strong> and <strong>Beccy Ferguson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LET BATTLE COMMENCE \u2013 THE LIONESSES, in association with Bounty Competitions, RDX, Empire Pro Tape and Go Sports &amp; Entertainment <\/strong>that takes place behind closed doors at the Northern Hotel in Aberdeen on the 24th April 2021 is set to enter the record books as the first all Female professional boxing event to take place not only in the UK but also the first in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stellar card features no less than four highly decorated former Amateur Champions;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LBCQuartetOfChampions-1024x807.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LBCQuartetOfChampions-1024x807.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LBCQuartetOfChampions-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LBCQuartetOfChampions-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LBCQuartetOfChampions-1536x1210.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LBCQuartetOfChampions-2048x1614.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nicola Hopewell<\/strong> is a development national champion and regional and National amateur England boxing flyweight champion with multiple box cup titles.&nbsp;On the 24th April <strong>Nicola Hopewell<\/strong> will be making her third Professional outing and faces a tough test against Sheffield\u2019s <strong>Juliette Winter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hollie Towl<\/strong> is a 5 time ABA national champion! At three different weights won back to back over five years !! A huge accolade and unprecedented! Hollie is also a national England boxing youth lightweight champion and multiple box cup including Irish titles.&nbsp;<strong>Hollie Towl<\/strong>, who will be making her second appearance in the <strong>LET BATTLE COMMENCE<\/strong> series, faces former Kick Boxing rising star <strong>Cara MacLochlainn<\/strong> who makes her Professional Boxing debut on the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ellie Coulson<\/strong> is a three time national finalist and England boxing national youth middleweight champion with again multiple box cup titles. <strong>Ellie Coulson<\/strong> will also be making her second appearance in the series, this time she faces <strong>Ester Konecna<\/strong> from the Czech Republic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth is former GB squad member and three-time ABA champion <strong>Angelica Finch<\/strong>, who will box at Featherweight. <strong>Angelica Finch<\/strong> has a tough professional boxing debut as she takes on Shrewsbury\u2019s former PBC International Silver Super Bantamweight Champion <strong>Jaime Bates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining the highly decorated quorum of Champions on the <strong>LET BATTLE COMMENCE &#8211; THE LIONESSES, in association with Bounty Competitions, RDX, Empire Pro Tape and Go Sports &amp; Entertainment<\/strong> event are;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Elite Amateur, South Shields\u2019 <strong>Estelle Scott<\/strong>, will make her professional debut against fellow pro debutant <strong>Kirsty Biswas<\/strong> from Middlesbrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manchester\u2019s former PBC International Silver Super Bantamweight Champion <strong>Sophie Varley<\/strong>, who now competes at Super Flyweight, will face <strong>Natasha Boyes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LET BATTLE COMMENCE \u2013 THE LIONESSES, in association with Bounty Competitions, RDX, Empire Pro Tape and Go Sports &amp; Entertainment <\/strong>will take place on the 24th April 2021 and will be broadcast live and free to view on <strong>FITE TV, AVO NETWORK, SPORTS CHANNEL NETWORK, SOWETO TV\u00a0 <\/strong>as well as further linear and digital channels globally (please check local listings)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5J02EGk2RWE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.letbattlecommence.com\">www.letbattlecommence.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six time, five division World Champion and Promoter Lee Mcallister and the British &amp; Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA) jointly announced<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/?p=7768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">QUARTET OF NATIONAL CHAMPIONS STAR ON HISTORIC BRITISH ALL FEMALE PRO BOXING EVENT ON 24TH APRIL 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[378,372,361,342],"class_list":["post-7768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-angelica-finch","tag-eleanor-coulson","tag-hollie-towl","tag-nicola-hopewell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7770,"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions\/7770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxbiba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}