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I was having a look at our women
world champions a few days ago.
Natascha Ragosina, Christina
Hammer, Noni Tenge, Myriam
Lamare, Ramona Kuehne, Oksana
Vasilieva, Unathi Myekeni, Nadya
Hokmi and Ju Hee Kim. Nine
beautiful, skillful and
outstanding world champions both
inside and outside the ring.
These are ladies with great
beauty, strong intelligence and
powerful character. One could
well picture all of them as high
powered businesswomen, lawyers,
doctors, politicians and the
question I posed to myself was
why?
Why boxing - the toughest sport
in the world, why put themselves
through heavy training, hours
and hours of roadwork, excessive
work in the gym, strengthening
their mental and physical
attributes. Why?
The answer to be quite honest I
wasn't exactly sure and with
some deliberation I came up with
the following which might be
interesting to debate, refute or
simply discuss. These ladies
box because of a few reasons -
the most important is that of
the challenge. The challenge to
conquer a sport that has been
male dominated for so many
years. To show fellow females
that anything and everything is
possible with hard work and
dedication. To prove to one and
all that they are as talented,
entertaining and as skillful as
the men.
To all of our nine world
champions - we are so proud of
you and what you have achieved.
We are proud of the way you
conduct yourselves in and out of
the ring. We are proud that you
have worked and continue to work
so hard in arguably the toughest
sport in the world.
To all of you wonderfully
talented ladies, you deserve to
be world champions and we salute
you.
God bless each and every one of
you.
Until next time, keep boxing.
Howard Goldberg
PRESIDENT: World Boxing
Federation
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