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- People ask me that question all the time:
what is it feels like to get hit?
It's like a little explosion in your body,
if they hit you at the right spot.
But I'm not really trying to hurt them.
Actually, except when I'm hitting the body,
I really like hearing people, like, grunt.
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There are very few female boxers that
are still in the game that have that longevity
in the sport that I've had.
In 20 years of boxing, I've never been knocked out,
much less knocked down and I think the reason for that
is not just because I'm strong,
it's because I don't take punches.
I'm never there to get punched.
It's weird.
It's very hard for me to associate being
World Champion with my name.
I mean, I have an office that has my belt
and all these photos of all the different titles that I've won,
but I just don't feel like it applies to me.
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I was dancer so only when I was injured
and knew that I couldn't dance anymore
that I took up something else, just for exercise.
So went into kickboxing
and eventually into boxing.
Because I started out as a dancer,
one of the biggest elements that I bring
into my boxing is movement.
When I first came into boxing, there were very few women
and the mentality of the guys that were here
were that, "You shouldn't box."
"You're too pretty to box."
You know, ”Go back to dance or something else."
This is a sport like any other sport.
I can do it.
Any female can do it.
The best recognition I had was when someone said,
"She fights like Pernell Whitaker or Muhammad Ali."
They didn't say I fought like a female.
I'm 48 and for my next fight,
I'm gonna try to be the oldest female title holder
and that would be in the Guinness World Record,
so there's different things that I need to win.
There's different things that I need to do
and World Champion is just one of it.
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