Jackie Tonawanda
American boxer (1933-2009)
ジャッキー・トナワンダ
- Born
- 4 September 1933, Suffolk County
- Died
- 9 June 2009
- Citizenship
- United States
- Sport
- boxing
- Occupation
- boxer
- Recorded fight record
- 34 wins, 1 losses
Jackie Tonawanda (September 4, 1933 – June 9, 2009), who dubbed herself "the Female Ali" and born Jean Jamison, was a pioneer American female heavyweight boxer in the 1970s and 1980s. Tonawanda was a well-known figure in the sport and was featured in many newspaper articles and magazines.
While being dubbed, by herself, as the female Muhammad Ali, several sources claim that her story was largely made up and she had only 1 professional fight, against Diane Clark in a six-round fight in 1979, which she lost.
Awards and honours
- International Boxing Hall of Fame 2021
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.