Though the contest was for the Featherweight Championship, from that point she billed herself as the first women's champion of the world.
The match saw Cora Livingston victorious and it was at that time she was officially recognized as the first women's world champion.
[1][3] Mildred Burke won a woman's world championship title in 1937 and held it for close to two decades.
Mildred Burke won the women's wrestling world championship title defeating Clara Mortenson the inaugural champion.
Subsequently, Byers was recognized as the NWA World Women's Champion, and Burke went on to create the WWWA World Championship and was recognized as its first champion.