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  Dora and Cora Webber
Dora Webber and Cora Webber (born 1958) are twin sisters who participate in women's boxing.
Cora Webber was a participant in the sport of karate before she discovered boxing in 1979, and she allegedly left karate because she kept on being disqualified on her karate fights.
Cora has fought, among others, Lady Tiger Trimiar[?], who was beaten twice by Cora, Belinda Laracuente, who also lost to her, and Bonnie Canino, who defeated her by decision.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/do/Dora_and_Cora_Webber.html   (335 words)

  
 Women's Boxing: Cora and Dora Webber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cora Webber, the eldest of the twins began boxing in 1979, while still in her teens.
When Cora and Dora had trained in boxing in the earlier years where there were no female sparring partners to box against, she was able to spar with one-time World Welterweight Champion Carlos Palomino, Hector Gomez and other noted fighters.
Some of Dora's highlights of her career is fighting against Lucia Rijer, where she lost by a decision, but is one of only a few that have lasted the whole match with such a tough fighter as Rijer.
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 Dora and Cora Webber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cora's first fight was against a woman named Toni Lear.
Cora won the fight by a decision, earning 100 dollars for her efforts.
She was the IWBF world Lightweight champion, but lost that honor when she fought a unification bout to the IFBA world champion Zulfia Koutdoussova on January 10, 1998 by a decision in Atlantic City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dora_and_Cora_Webber   (410 words)

  
 Women's boxing
But a scandal broke out where it was said that some of her fights had been fixed, and as a consequence, women's boxing as a sport was almost killed.
During the 1980s, women's boxing briefly resurfaced in California under the wings of sisters Dora and Cora Webber.
The twin sisters were world champions and packed crunching punching power and a good chin.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wo/Women's_boxing.html   (230 words)

  
 New Woodstock and Vicinity - Past and Present - 2
The Webbers were all farmers except John, who was a stone mason and did much of the mason work in the early days of the town.
Polly, the wife of Elisha Webber, was a woman of excellent education, having been a teacher before her marriage, and was well-versed in history.
Webber was born on his father's farm and lived there until at the age of forty-eight, he bought a farm north of Cazenovia, moving there in 1866.
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 Women's Boxing: IFBA October 1997 Lula Missisippi Card
Cora Webber was able to get inside and take away Bonnie's fight plan of staying on the outside and jabbing.
Webber had the motivation to win after her sister had been given what appeared to most viewers to be a bad decision, but she still faced pretty big odds facing an unbeaten and much taller British fighter in Jane Couch.
Couch, as mentioned was much taller than Webber and had a much longer reach to go with that height, but she continued to go inside with Webber for some reason.
www.womenboxing.com /biog/fightreports/19971024_ifba.htm   (2923 words)

  
 Hopewell Genealogy
Frank remembers his mother-in-law showing him a house in the Woodington section (in the area of Jim Smith Road) in which her mother (Susan Waller) was raised.
One clue: Cora Moore Sanderson, granddaughter of Egbert Oliver Hopewell once told the author that she thought the girls went to Georgia.
Cora was about 85 at the time, and was not sure.
www.hopewell.org /hopewell_genealogy.htm   (2198 words)

  
 Dora Did You Mean dora?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Dora Bakoyannis (born 1954), mayor of Athens, capital of Greece.
Dora, one of the two 80cm railway artillery pieces constructed by Germany during World War II.
Hurricane Dora, which was the first and last hurricane to hit Jacksonville, Florida.
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 1917 Rural Madison County Directory
Warner, John L. (Cora) 1 ch prop Crystal Spring Flower and Truck Gardens O 123a 5h 22c R5 canastota Lin 50 B tel.
Webber, Garrison O 15a 1h 3c R3 Canastota Lnx 4.
Webber, I. (Abie D.) farmer 46a 2h 7c R4 Cazenovia Caz 75.
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 Andrew Lloyd Webber Sound of Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
From Madras andrew lloyd webber sound of music and Mumbai, to London, you can follow the producer, the creative team andrew lloyd webber sound of music and the cast as they bring together this lavish production.
From rehearsal to opening night andrew lloyd webber sound of music and a Gala Performance with a visit by Her Majesty the Queen, "Salaam Bombay Dreams" also features the sights andrew lloyd webber sound of music and sounds of the show providing a fascinating journey through this Bollywood musical hit.
William Lloyd Webber - William Southcombe Lloyd Webber (11 March 1914, London – 29 October 1982, London) was an organist and composer.
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 The Prentices of Halton, Buckingham, England and Williamsburg, Virginia
Another story says that after her one of her children chopped off his toe with an axe, Margaret grabbed the toe and took the membrane from a chicken egg and wrapped it around the toe and the foot and the toe eventually reattached to the foot.
Her place of birth is not yet known, but Michelle Fiedler says they were in Lamar Co., TX in 1866 and in Kiowa Co., OK in 1918.
Maud L. Webber, born 26 April 1887; died 4 October 1944 in Mountain Park, Kiowa Co., Ok. She married N.Tom Holly.
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 FIRST ALL-WOMEN CARD - JULY 13 1979 - WOMEN'S BOXING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cora Webber, a twin of Dora Webber, who both have fought off and on for the last 20 years, fought some of the best in the 90's.
Rodriguez has also lost to Cora and Dora Webber, Lili Rodriguez, Squeaky Bayardo, Shirley Tucker, and others.
It was surprising to TL Fox, when she was researching women's boxing that she ran across a 1993 article where Toni Lear Rodriguez was fighting a 0-2 fighter.
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GEORGE HANNA of Sullivan and Miss CORA B. SARGENT of Gouldsboro.
CORA L. ABBOTT, wife of Thomas Abbott, age 45 years.
FRED I. PHILLIPS of Hancock and Miss CORA J. SAVAGE of Mt. Desert.
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 All Things Cherokee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Query: Seeking information on Walter Webber, Sr., who married Tusa-luh; their son Walter Webber was a metif who acted as an Indian trader, and was also a chief of the Cherokee nation.
Webbers Falls on the Arkansas River was named in his honor.
The earliest description of Walter Webber is found in Thomas Nuttall's Journal when the naturalist visited the Cherokee on April 9, 1818, who were then living in the present state of Arkansas.
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 Washington County, OH Cemetery Index WARTH - WEIMER
WEBBER, Mary A, 1885-1926, Salem Hall, Grandview Twp.
WEBBER, Mary C, 1857-1931, Salem Hall, Grandview Twp.
WEBBER, Rosy E Loman, 1864-1890, Matamoras, Grandview Twp.
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 Women's Boxing Revisited
Davis is still remembered by hard core boxing fans, and some of them don't remember her precisely for the scandal, but for the excitement and attention she brought to women's boxing with her presence.
During the 1980's, Californian twins Dora and Cora Webber won national attention with their ring victories.
March 16th of 1996 is the exact date where women's boxing literally received a facelift and make-up session, as Christy Martin and Deirdre Gogarty fought what is remembered by many among those that saw it as one of the greatest fights in recent boxing history.
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 Women's Boxing: Records
Atlantic City, NJ Zulfia Koutdoussova, 132, won a split dec. against Cora Webber, 128.
Cora Webber had a four-round draw against Squeaky Bayardo *Poster, newspaper article
Cora Webber KO'd Lavonne Ludian *photograph of the KO 2 fights 1980's
www.womenboxingrecords.com /webbercora.html   (258 words)

  
 Women's Boxing -Flast from the Past - More past women boxers!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
LAURIE HOLT, a dynamite super-featherweight that defeated Cora Webber in a 15-round World Title Fight in the 80's in Denver, Colorado at the Radisson Hotel.
RODRIGUEZ did not fair to well when she fought Shirley "Zebra Girl" Tucker, Cora and Dora Webber who both defeated her, Lilly Rodriguez, Squeaky Bayardo, Julie Mullen, and Sue TL Fox (Rodriguez lost twice to Fox by unanimous decisions to Fox at Incline Village in Lake Tahoe, and in Utah).
Holley will defend her title against Dora Webber, 24, a Los Angeles housewife and mother, who began boxing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Ms.
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 Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The scope of Andrew Lloyd Webber's remarkable career andrew lloyd webber collection and talents comes together in this four-disc deluxe collection, which spans decades of his work in the theatre.
Audiences around the globe have been captivated by the record-breaking, award-winning productions of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber (who was knighted in 1992), the world's most successful composer for the stage.
Surrender (Sarah Brightman Album) - Surrender is a Sarah Brightman-Andrew Lloyd Webber collaborative album released in 1995, a precursor to "The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection (1997)," "Encore (2002)," and "Love Changes Everything (2005)," but a successor to "Sarah Brightman Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber (1992)." This album features such songs...
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 List of twins Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Antonia and Ferdinand Becherer, German Olympic figure skate team
Dora and Cora Webber (born 1958), American women world champion boxers
Horace Grant, current NBA player, and Harvey Grant, former NBA player; born in 1965
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 Boxing: Back to The Hall of Fame
It would be significant if they were not only the first two women, but the first twins to be inducted together.
They had disappointing records, but were stars in the 1980's and Dora was a major titleholder.
Boxing, like everything else in life, is filled of issues we can't control or have no answers for.
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 Women's Boxing: Exclusive Photo Gallery of Sue TL Fox of "Behind the Scenes" and Ringside photos of women's bouts!
The Glove mentioned that in May of 1978, Kaufman fought Anita Howard, Minneapolis in the State AAU Championship sanctioned by Minnesota Boxing Commission.
On page 7, there is an interesting clip about Dora and Cora Webber.
Dora Webber was not even boxing at the time but was just talking about getting into the sport.
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 History of the Keeney Family From 1630
Dora Ella (b) March 29, 1890, (m) Oscar Reiser, (d) Sept. 4, 1925; remarried Morris Heath.
Children of Dora Ella Lankton Reiser and Oscar:
March 19, 1859, (m) (1) Cora Toland, (d) May 10, 1881, (2) Emma Belle Webber.
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 Re: there should be a Womens Boxing Hall of Fame! -- WOMEN'S BOXING FORUM
Someone could be nominated for more than one category (example: Sideroff as both boxer and trainer).
Some consideration must be made for pioneers (Buttrick, Hagen, and Kugler) and for the early modern era boxers (Casillas, Webber sisters).
Those initially selected should be added to the nominations committee.
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 Woman Boxing Fight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The first popular boxer was Cathy "Cat" Davis when some of her fights were televised.
In the 1980s, twin sisters Dora and Cora Webber became world champions, and in the 1990s, women's boxing boomed with the rise of other professional women sports leagues such as the WNBA.
But Cynthia Talmadge, an amateur boxer out of San Francisco who dreamt of becoming an Olympic athlete, said it will take a movement to bring women's boxing up to the men's level.
www.boxing-stuff.info /woman-boxing-fight.htm   (1189 words)

  
 Notable boxing families - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Orlin, former world Cruiserweight champion, fought Mike Tyson
Dora and Cora Webber, world champion women boxers, twin sisters
This page was last modified 15:43, 16 May 2006.
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292 294 Gillispe Cora Wife W F April 1875 25 M 4 3 3 Illinois Illinois New York.
317 319 King Cora Daughter W F Mar 1876 24 S.
324 326 Mattick Cora Daughter W F Feb 1893 7.
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 Desendants of James Logan Colbert: Index
Abner, Cora (marriage to Henry L.(F.?) McLish) (i18830), b.1858-
Brown, Cora Lee (marriage to Walter Scott White) (i13322)
Carr, Cora (marriage to James Alfred Murray) (i22814), b.1869-
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 Descendants of Samuel Gorby - b.ca 1700: Index
Hanley, James N (marriage to Cora Gorby) (i5825)
Johnson, C E (marriage to Dora Frances Foreman) (i2746), d.1904
Lewis, Blanche D (marriage to Elmer Webber Jordan) (i2728), b.1880-
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 Descendants of Andries Van Valkenburg - pafn135 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
1900 in Melville, Grant Co, WI 1905 age 26 in Marion, Grant Co, WI 1920 age 42; listed as Dora Van Valkenburg
MARRIAGE: records of Huron Co, MI Cora M van Valkenburg
BIRTH: date from 1900 census; complete date from Peggy J Emlaw Utt by e-mail May 2000
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