They told her women shouldn’t box. Now she’s Ghana’s first female world champion

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They told her women shouldn’t box. Now she’s Ghana’s first female world champion

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Women's Boxing@lemmy.todayEnglish · 8 months ago

When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer, her family begged her to stop training.

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A community about Women’s Boxing. Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing’s history until recently, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses to women boxers, and most nations officially banning the sport

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