04.26.2005:Jamie McGrath Top Female Boxer

from thesweetscience:

		“Boxing makes me feel good, feel alive. I’m very comfortable in the ring, and I’m very comfortable with challenges. You only live once,” McGrath says, “and you have to make every minute count.”

 

by Robert Mladinich

Jamie McGrath began boxing in 1997, totally by accident. Prior to then she could never have imagined herself donning boxing gloves, much less fighting professionally, which she will do for the first time on May 12 at the Town House in Huntington, Long Island, New York. .......

Collins, who won an array of professional titles, went 10 rounds with Christy Martin, and retired with a record of 14-2-3 (3 KOs), was once considered one of the sport’s premier female athletes. She still owns the gym with her husband, Frankie G., who doubles as McGrath’s manager. While she could have pummeled McGrath, she realized she was a diamond in the rough and opted to cultivate her interest in the sweet science rather than scare her away.