Editing Dora and Cora Webber (section)

{{short description|American boxer}}
{{BLP sources|date=January 2011}}

'''Dora Webber''' and '''Cora Webber''' (born December 5, 1958) are twin sisters who participate in [[women's boxing]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The boxer's heart: how I fell in love with the ring|year=2000|publisher=Villard|isbn=978-0-375-50395-5|pages=15, 129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6G1AAAAIAAJ&q=Dora+and+Cora+Webber|author=Kate Sekules|accessdate=January 12, 2011}}</ref> They are from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Florida]]. It is believed that at one time, they were the only set of twins to actively participate on [[boxing]]'s women's leg.

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.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-17-sp-9004-story.html|title=CORA AND DORA, THE . . . TWO-FISTED TWINS : From Ft. Lauderdale to Reseda, This One-Two Combination Has Taken Its Punches and LandedFeet-First in a Sport Reserved Mostly for Men|first=JERRY|last=CROWE|date=17 May 1985|publisher=|accessdate=19 July 2017|via=LA Times}}</ref> Her sister Dora followed her footsteps five years later. The Webbers were among the most popular female boxers of the 1980s and kept on facing top opposition well into the 1990s.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

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 put a string of wins together, and was able to win the California State women's title. After that, she had a chance to spar with men's Welterweight world champion [[Carlos Palomino]] in [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

In 1984, Dora followed suit and began a professional boxing career of her own. Her first opponent happened to be none other than her sister's former rival Lear, who, upon meeting Dora, thought that she was fighting ''Cora'' and that ''Cora'' was just trying to pull some kind of scam. After she was presented with proof that she was not fighting ''Cora'' but her twin sister ''Dora'', Dora proceeded to beat her by a [[knockout]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Cora has fought, among others, [[Marian Trimiar]], who was beaten twice by Cora, [[Belinda Laracuente]], who also lost to her, and [[Bonnie Canino]], who defeated her by decision.  She was the [[International Women's Boxing Federation|IWBF]] world Lightweight champion, but lost that honor when she fought a unification bout to the [[International Female Boxers Association|IFBA]] world champion [[Zulfia Koutdoussova]] on January 10, 1998 by a decision in [[Atlantic City]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} Dora, meanwhile, who has fought [[Lucia Rijker]], was a world champion on the Jr. Middleweight division until she lost the IFBA belt a month after her sister's defeat at the hands of Koutdoussova, by a 10 round decision to [[Gina Guidi]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

During 2021, Dora Webber was inducted into the [[Women's International Boxing Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://wbcboxing.com/en/international-womens-boxing-hall-of-fame-announces-2021-iwbhf-inductees/ | title=International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame Announces 2021 IWBHF Inductees | date=28 April 2021 }}</ref> Cora Webber was among the Hall's 2022 intake.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.womenboxing.com/NEWS2021/news111221IWBHF-inductees-announced.htm|title=Past Event with the IWBHF in 2022|publisher=womenboxing.com|accessdate=31 December 2024}}</ref>

{{Infobox boxer
| name = Dora Webber
| image = 
| caption = 
| nationality = American
| realname = 
| nickname = 
| height = {{convert|1.73|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = [[Middleweight]] 
| reach = 1.70 m
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|12|5}}
| birth_place = [[Los Angeles]], United States
| style = [[Orthodox stance|Orthodox]]
| total = 13
| wins = 4
| KO = 1
| losses = 5
| draws = 3
| no contests = 0
}}