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Rebekah Brown has been a boxing reporter since 1987 and interviews James "Lights Out" Toney.

Rebekah covered Toney for The Detroit News as Boxing Columnist in Detroit on Toney's rise to become one of boxing’s all-time greatest fighters.

It’s 30 years later, and Rebekah catches up with James to talk about what’s next for the World Boxing Foundation Heavyweight Champion in 2017 and into 2018.

Brown began her career taking high school scores on the sports desk of the Wisconsin State Journal. Six months later Brown covered 12 University of Wisconsin Badgers drafted into the NFL and was writing investigative stories on sports injuries in high school and college sports.

Brown was a sports reporter for:

The Wisconsin State Journal
The Kansas City Star & Times
The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette
Sports Editor of The Michigan Chronicle
The Detroit News (Investigative Sports Reporter, Boxing Columnist, Layout & Copy Editor)
Writer for Multiple Boxing Magazines and Publications
Online, TV (ESPN), radio

Brown’s awards and achievements include:

Being one of the nation’s first female Big 10 football & basketball reporters 1984
One of the nation’s first female Big 10 football & basketball beat reporters 1987
One of the nation's first female boxing columnists 1990
First website writer for Verizon, Kmart, Chrysler 1999
First female website agency 2004
PRAME Awards TV, Radio, Direct Mail Copy Writing 1996-99
Best of Gannett Investigative Editor/Writers 1991
Ring 32 Boxing Writer of the Year 1991
Best of Gannett Headline Writing Award 1990
Sports Editor: 3 NNPA Best Sports Sections of the Year 1988-90
Brown earned a B.A. in Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison 1986
Madison Pen & Mike Sports Writer’s Award

Rebekah lives and works in Winter Park, Florida. She travels to boxing events and gyms across the country to find out what fighters are up to today.

Questions? Contact Rebekah Brown at 248-302-5172 or [email protected]