The Most Inspirational Female Boxer_ By Dexter Stokes

The Most Inspirational Female Boxer

By: Dexter Stokes

The most impressive female boxer these days, or in fact for all time for that matter will have to be Laila Ali. She is the second youngest of Muhammed Ali's 9 children, and apparently has inherited at the very least a few of his same abilities in the ring also. She started boxing only a few years ago and formerly owned and managed a nail bar in California. She was married twice, her present husband being National football league star Curtis Conway. She carries a perfect record of Twenty-four fights with Twenty-four wins, and 21 knockouts, that's much the same KO ratio to the great puncher George foreman, and even greater then her fathers was also.

She, in addition, has inherited a great deal of her fathers charm and media persona too, making her not just the very best but the most popular also. What began as hoopla owing to who her father was has developed into her own career as a the most successful icon that womens boxing has ever seen. She now holds all the major womens titles at her weight and has even defeated the daughters of two other boxing greats in Freeda Foreman and Jackie Frazier-Lyde respectively.

Because of her instant fame and obvious ability she quickly became the most famous and well paid female boxer in the world too, now commanding fight purses around the $500,000 dollar mark. She isn't without her critics though and is often portrayed in the media as the best of a bad bunch regarding the level that a lot of women boxing is at. Many also thought before her debut that living in the shadow if her father and being raised surrounded by wealth etc would have meant she lacked the hunger or motivation to become a great fighter too. She has now however soundly proved these people wrong.

She has fought many times on the under cards of Mike Tyson's fights, and her main rival is the simultaneous Four weight champ Ann Wolfe, although despite efforts from both sides this particular fight has yet to be decided. Leila Ali takes the title as the finest female boxer on the planet in my mind because she has fought all the top end at her bodyweight, and has yet to be near to even being defeated. Ann Wolfe however has one defeat on her record and fewer fights as well, placing her in next place in spite of her title accomplishment.

About the Author

It wasn't until I saw Leila Ali in one of her boxing bouts that I decided to step into the ring myself with my trusty pair of pink boxing gloves.

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