Senior Boxing Journalist JamesDielhenn. She was a fantastic amateur boxer but now, ahead of her pro debut, is the unlikely future of women's boxing because her path to this moment has been a rollercoaster which threatened to derail. First her experience with Team GB, designed to take her towards Olympic glory, turned sour. More recently a serious blood clot on her lung called more than just her boxing future into question. O'Connor is certainly not from a boxing hotbed, nor did she have the typical boxer's childhood - her tiny hamlet in County Durham is full of farm animals, and she lived in France briefly as a child.
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Amateur boxing
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A prospective cohort study of injury in amateur and professional boxing
Background: There is concern over the potential for a high incidence of injury in boxing. This is despite a lack of prospective data evaluating the risk for modern day participants. Updated, reliable data with a focus on potential exposure to injury for both amateur and, especially, professional boxers is required. Aim: To determine the epidemiology of injury and exposure of amateur and professional boxers in Victoria, Australia.
Changes to England Boxing rules regarding amateur/professional boxing
The Olympics are almost upon us. Olympic boxing is unique to amateur and professional boxing. Here are the rules you need to know. Olympic Boxing stretches back more and years ago, where it originated in Athens, Greece.
You're in the ring with an opponent whose main objective is to punch you, and punch you hard. So amateur boxing is not inherently safe. But as Keith Walters, chairman of the Amateur Boxing Association, says, what sport is completely safe?
