Vonda Ward, Sportswoman, - Biography,
USA Basketball Player, Boxing Competitor
Height:
6 foot 5 or 6 foot 6
Weight: 187 Pounds
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Pic of her
born March 16, 1973 in Macedonia, Ohio
Vonda Ward is a female
boxer who was also a very well known NCAA basketball player. Ward is nicknamed
"The All American Girl", as many people who meet her in person have
expressed that she looks a little like Jane Fonda.
Ward grew in a sports oriented family, as her father, Larry Ward, is a famous harness racer. As a little girl, Ward showed a lot of interest in basketball.
Ward made the girl's basketball team at her Trinity High School, in Garfield Heights. She made the "Parade All American" teams twice while a team member, impressing many different NCAA division 1 schools. She was heavily followed by NCAA scouts across the United States.
In 1991, Ward went to university, choosing a basketball scholarship with the University of Tennessee. While as a member of Pat Summitt's "Lady Vols", Ward earned two NCAA national basketball championships, & became a notorious basketball player. Her college career ended in 1995, & many thought that she would be chosen by a WNBA team during that league's inaugural 1996 season. When this did not happen, Ward went on to play in Germany, & she later on played in the American Basketball League's Colorado Xplosion.
Having a relatively short professional basketball career, Ward decided to turn her attention to women's boxing instead. When she became a professional boxer, nevertheless, she surprised many of her fans that still considered her to be skillful enough to play basketball at the WNBA level.
Ward's boxing debut occurred on January 15, 2000, when she knocked out Faye Steffen in round one at LaPorte, Indiana. Her first four fights all ended in first round knockout wins for the tall (6'6) basketball player turned Heavyweight fighter.
On April 27, 2000, she met Genevia Buckwalter in New York. Buckwalter, who had a negative win-loss record, at least matched Ward in experience, with six fights made prior to her meeting with Ward. She became the first fighter to make it out of the first round against Ward, but Ward still came victorious, by a second round knockout.
Ward's next five rivals did not make it over the second round, with two first round knockouts & three second round wins. At this point of her career, she had a streak of twelve knockout wins in a row.
On February 2, 2001, she met prospect Kisha Snow as part of the stare fairgrounds celebrations in Columbus, Ohio. Snow came into the fight undefeated after six bouts, & she & Ward engaged in a four round war, but Ward made Snow her thirteenth straight knockout victim. Then came Carley Pesente, on June 16, at Kansas City, Missouri. Pesente lasted two rounds with Ward.
After one more win, Ward challenged for the IBA's world's Heavyweight title, on August 16, 2002. Ward became a world champion, but saw her knockout win streak gone, when she outpointed Monica McGowan in ten rounds, at Canton, Ohio.
Ward defended her title successfully with an eighth round knockout over the well known Kathy Rivers, on December 6 at the Gund Arena in Cleveland. On March 1, 2003, she & Martha Salazar made their Las Vegas debut, with Ward taking a four round split decision win in a non-title bout.
After one more win, Ward unified her IBA world Heavyweight title with the WIBF's one, by defeating Salazar in a rematch, held on July 11, in Canton. Ward won by a ten round decision.
A highly anticipated match took place when Ward defended her title on May 8, 2004, in a nationally televised bout with Ann Wolfe, in Biloxi, Mississippi. At one minute & eight seconds of the first round, Ward was the recipient of a right hand to the chin, which left her motionless on the floor for a few minutes. This first round knockout defeat represented not only losing her title, but also her record as being an undefeated fighter. Ward had a neck concussion because she hit the canvas with her neck when she fell. Having been put on a neck protecting collar & given oxygen with a mask, Ward required hospitalization after this bout, & many that saw it on television called for her retirement.
After recovering from that defeat, however, Ward felt it still wasn't time to retire from boxing, so, on December 12 she returned to the boxing ring, knocking out the vastly experienced Marsha Valley in four rounds, at Cleveland.
Ward's
boxing record stands at 19 wins & 1 loss, with sixteen wins by knockout.
She
was also Ohio prep girls' basketball Player of the Year.
I remember seeing on the internet for the first time, what a thought she is a 6 foot 5 woman, like that.
Someone once said she is 190 lbs of solid muscle, and that the audience loved her.
She has fought women who weigh 190 pounds who are 6 foot tall, and some shorter.
I think they should ban boxing.
She has a entorouge just like male boxers. She has in 2006 a Manager, Accountant, Trainer, and co trainer. and security guard.
In a amatuer fight she knocked down her opponent 3 times in 1999.
She trains for 6 hours a day
She has been on the cover of Cleveland Magazine, and appears in many local media.
She also sells posters, and boxing gloves, that she has autographed.
I saw a u tube video while writing this of her knocking down a woman, as you would expect the woman bozers do not look as fast as male boxers in punching. But they are very strong. What a woman.
This site was written in January 2007
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