A strikingly beautiful young woman, Laila was encouraged by many to become a model. She chose boxing instead. She first became interested in the possibility of a professional boxing career as a result of watching a Christy Martin fight on the undercard of a Mike Tyson — Frank Bruno fight. As it turned out she was right. Her last fight took place in February of and she remained undefeated after 24 contests. I didn't really know what was going to come of it, as far as how it was going to turn out.
He started doing the footage and following me around, and I'm happy with the way it came out. KW : This is pretty honest documentary. LA : Well, I don't think that I necessarily would have chosen to start it out that way.
KW : Oh, that's the way it was edited. LA : Exactly, but people have to understand that, to me, that's not a negative statement.
Obviously, it sounds like it is, but there are a lot of parents out there who wish they would have done things differently. And, like I said, my dad would probably be one of the first ones to say that.
KW : Yet, you still followed in his career footsteps. Did you think that you were going to be a boxer while you were growing up? LA : No, though I'd always been an aggressive person, and had a competitive spirit. I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it.
So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it. KW : Do you think there might be something genetic about your interest, since Freeda Foreman and Jackie Frazier, daughters of George and Joe, became boxers? So, it's the same as with anything else. There are women, and there are men, who are just going to happen to want to fight, though I think my having some success in my career definitely forced the issue with some of the other girls.
But I'm the only one now who's still fighting. I guess they tried it, and it didn't work, or there was something they didn't like about it. So, they moved on, and I'm the only one that actually has had any staying power and became a world champion. KW : you're the undefeated world champion, 24 and 0, is it time to move on and parlay that success into something else? LA : Well, I definitely reached my goals, and unfortunately, it's left a void in how I feel about my career, because it wasn't as challenging as I would have liked it to have been on the way up, as you saw in the documentary.
It would be very difficult to continue to train hard and remain motivated after some of the situations I ended up in. She also hopes viewers see the show as the vehicle for change that it is.
Nothing was contrived. What people see is percent real and some of us fared better than others based on our decisions. Follow Us.
A month later, Ali won her second bout by TKO in the fourth round and was well on her way. It was billed as Ali-Frazier IV and was the first-ever pay-per-view boxing card headlined by women. Her opponent was female boxing legend and the fighter who inspired her to pursue the sport, Christy Martin.
It was never a contest. The year-old Ali overwhelmed the year-old legend from the opening bell, finally finishing her off with a flurry of punches, and a knockout in the fourth round. For the next four years, Ali fought and defeated every challenger that stepped into the ring opposing her.
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