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22/07/2024

Women’s Amateur Boxing has been a road of emotional, legal, and educational battles.

Even though boxing was one of the first Olympic sports, it has been the last Olympic sport to fully integrate women equally into the sport.

How do I know this?

Because I am one of those pioneer athletes who witnessed, advocated, and participated in a tiny part of it.

From 2004 to 2015, as a soul mother, I regularly competed in the amateur and professional boxing world. Wracking up 45 Amateur Boxing bouts, and winning the 2013 Canadian Golden Gloves Championship. Then fought as a pro with a 1-1 record.

Part of competing is the consistent training that you put in. This is about honing your skills to be the greatest. With training, comes sparring partners. Without teammates and your sparring partners. It's very difficult to put into real life application the technical skills your coach has you working on.

One of my sparring partners, I had the honour of working with, was Mary Spencer. If you are not familiar with Mary Spencer. She was a 3x world champion and 5x pan American champion. The 2012 London Olympics was a historic time, because it was the first time women’s boxing was allowed to participate in the Olympic games. Mary was one of the first female boxers to compete at those games.

As a side note. Even though I never got to compete in the Olympics. I often joke that I competed in London 2012. I was Mary’s sparring partner that was featured as a commercial during the CBC athlete intro. After every commercial break, there is an athlete highlight reel that plays, before the commentating resumes. So, each time the intro would show during the Olympics, I was the woman in blue who was taking a punch from Mary as the 30 second cinematic intro shows different athletes in their sport. I was “at” the London 2012 Olympics.

All jokes aside. Competitors and supporters of women’s boxing in Canada were so proud to watch Mary’s journey to compete. We knew that it was one of the major monumental sparks to catapult women’s boxing forwards of legitimacy in mainstream society.

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Women’s Amateur Boxing has been a road of emotional, legal, and educational battles.

19/07/2024

It is 7 Days until the Paris 2024 Olympic Games begins.

With excitement over this being the first Olympics where women’s boxing has 6 weight classes. I decided to do some research on all the countries and the competitive female boxers representing each country.

An interesting fact I came across, was, one country is titled the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT).

The ROT team was established in the Rio Olympics in 2016 and has been voted by the Olympic committee to represent each Olympics until Milan-Cortina d’Ameppzo 2026.

The team is composed of refugee athletes from war torn countries that are not able to train and compete for their home country.

For the Paris 2024 Olympics in the women’s 75 kg women’s boxing division Cindy Ngamba will be representing the the Refugee Olympic Team.

Check out her story in the link below in the comments.

P.S The flag that is shared in this post, represents the ROT and is about resiliency.

P.P.S Want to help spread the word about women's boxing in the Olympics, please share this post.

21/03/2024

. In 2018 I met Rasheda Ali daughter of the GOAT in boxing, Muhammad Ali.

Yet this picture is a lot more than just me showing off a 1 degree of separation to the daughter of Ali.

Boxing goes deeper than the #1 rated Olympic Sport by ESPN for competition.

This real story behind this picture is about what boxing represents: inclusivity, collaboration, support, and empowerment within our communities.

In 2016 I became the first certified female Parkinson’s boxing coach in Canada, with the Rock Steady Boxing Program. Then a year later I began running my own program.

In 2018 I decided to run my very first 12 week, Women’s Only boxing training camp. At the end of the camp, the women would compete. Show casing their new skills on a boxing card, which also served as fundraiser and educational awareness for non contact boxing and Parkinson’s.

I connected with the World Parkinson’s Organization and we exchange tables at each of our events. Collaborating our strengths for community awareness about both topics; Women in boxing, and Parkinson’s community awareness.

That is how I came to meet Rasheda Ali in March of 2018, as she was the guest speaker for World Parkinson's Program event.

Boxing is so much more than just a sport!

If you are ready to see how non contact boxing can change your life. By giving you a supportive community for your mental, physical and emotional health.

DM me.

I am soon launching a new program.

"GOAT 💩 Fat Fighter Program: Ditch the Scale and Love Your BadAss Self In 12 weeks."

I’d love to chat and see if you’re a fit for the program.



P.S Stay tuned as GOAT Promotions launches June 29th, 2024.