Carole Steindler is a pioneer advocate of Women's boxing and was a driving force behind the initial publication of female rankings in Boxing Illustrated magazine. She also operated a West Coast gym that welcomed early female boxers including Lady Tyger Trimiar.

Carol Steindler (in her 80s) and a Hall of Famer from California is a pioneer outside the ring. She was on the original board for the history-first female boxing ratings that were published in the Boxing Illustrated Magazine.  If it were not for dedicated women in the sport, in the 70's and 80's many of the pioneer boxers would not have had the benefit of knowing they were world rated in that magazine that printed monthly top ten boxers in each weight class.

The first time that Sue Fox learned about the ratings was one day in 1977, a fellow female boxer, Toni Lear Rodriguez, told Fox about the ratings, and Fox immediately went to the nearest store to buy a copy of the Boxing Illustrated. This was such an important footprint for the past pioneer boxers, who benefited little otherwise trying to participate in the sport when many times the media referred to past female boxers as a novelty act, or a special feature on a boxing card.

Steindler many achievements include the following: She was on the Board of Directors of the "WBB"  women’s boxing board which was the first women’s boxing organization; presented a flyweight championship belt to Rosie Reid (Pioneer Boxer from the 1980s); there were many stories written about Steindler in the women's magazine, "The Glove", "Women’s World" and "Women’s Day", "Sport’s Illustrated", "Fight Beat", "Caesar's Seven" and more.

Steindler was the first to let women train at the Main Street gym, and one of the most noted pioneer female boxers in the sport at the time had Lady Tyger Trimiar, a boxer who was inducted in 2016 with the IWBHF. Britt VanBuskirk, another one of our IWBHF Inductees worked out in her gym, also Jake LaMotta‘s daughter Stephanie trained at her gym, in addition to many actresses trained there for boxing related films.

Steindler became owner and manager of the Main Street Gym as well as the first woman to manage a gym when her father, the famous Howie Steindler was brutally murdered. She became a California and Nevada Licensed manager and corner person.