Three Aussie women are fighting for their dream of a boxing world title this year and all their journeys can be traced back to a converted backyard shed on the Gold Coast.
The women have had to field questions about looking "too pretty to box" but are competing for world title s.Nicolson will fight Sarah Mahfoud for the vacant WBC featherweight title on Sunday morning .
Nicolson said the interaction was indicative of the attitudes she and many other female boxers often faced."I know people aren't being offensive when they say it, but it would be nice to just be looked at for what you are and what you're achieving, rather than just your exterior.""My whole life has been boxing for 17 years and everything has been leading up to this moment," Nicolson said.
"Coming off a loss, it just makes me so much hungrier … I deserve to be here and I know that I'm going to become a world champion again," Johnson said.The Brisbane expat now fights out of Melbourne but began box-fit classes at her local Police Citizen Youth Club before joining Albert Boxing.When Che Kenneally fell pregnant during COVID-19, many wrote off her boxing career.
"I feel like women's boxing is definitely still in its infancy. It has come a long way but we're still so far away from where it's headed and where it's going," she said"Che and Cherneka and myself and a lot of female boxers around the world are creating that path for these next generation of girls coming through. We have such an important role to play.
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