If you could overlook the various braggadocious personalities populating the room, including Claressa Shields’ declaration to Szilvia Szabados that “I’m not gonna let you beat me in front of my family,” there was something basic and essential, completely gender non-specific, and as subtle as a jab to the schnozz, going on Wednesday at MGM Grand. Of the many things a boxer needs to reach the apex of a game that chews up most of them well below the mountaintop, two absolute mandates are a home base that embraces the fighter as a marketable commodity, and a television network that does the same.
Category: Women’s Boxing
Kellie Maloney ‘shocked’ by Dame Jenni Murray’s sex change views
Boxing manager Kellie Maloney, formerly known as Frank, has said she sees herself as a woman and would love to have a debate with broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray after she suggested men who have undergone sex change operations are not “real women”. The fight promoter, who announced in 2014 she was beginning gender reassignment, said she was “shocked” Dame Jenni questioned whether someone who has enjoyed the privileges of growing up as a man could really be a woman.