There may be a record $1 million awaiting the male and female champions, but at the moment, nobody's got game.

So far as women are concerned-well, there has never been a female heavyweight champion of the world.

Shelby easily defeats her opponent and becomes the youngest female champion.

Although there's plenty of room for more recognition, the Olympics and other competitions make clear that female champions are a fact of life.

In the economy of figure skating, an American female champion is considered the jackpot, garnering anywhere between $10,000 and $15,000 per night.

She was the first female champion since 1999.

Yet it was only too obvious that even they found the concept of a female champion profoundly unnatural.

At the age of 14 years and 41 days she became the youngest-ever female Olympic champion in swimming.

Karolyi now has accounted for 8.5 of the female champions in the 15 American Cups.

The roster of past female champions reads like a running Hall of Fame.