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"I had done a few kickboxing fights in my teens and then I switched to boxing three or four years ago for fitness," she told Wide World of Sports.
"I've been matched up to fight in May but before that I'd like to do an exhibition fight at an amateur competition, which is potentially two more fights between now and May and I'd like to have one or two more fights before December as well." "I had done it when I was a kid and then I started my business, Hit Like A Girl, basically to empower women through combat sport and also through breathing and meditation.
"Women become more aggressive as we get older. It might be a hormone thing. When I was five years old I was watching a karate school and I kept telling my mum I want to go fight.
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