After 25 years in ladies’s boxing, Ana María Torres enters the Corridor of Fame

Mexico Metropolis. Twenty-five years in the past, on July 3, 1999, Ana María Torres fought within the first skilled ladies’s boxing occasion in Mexico Metropolis. An outdated regulation from the Fifties prevented this.

“The toughest a part of that debut was the general public,” remembers the fighter who not too long ago entered the Canastota Corridor of Fame. Many of the attendees at that occasion within the Mexico Area had been males who didn’t cease insulting her and her opponent Mariana Juárez. “I cannot overlook these phrases. They damage greater than the blows. I nonetheless keep in mind them.”

A number of months later, she fought once more and the viewers now included extra ladies. “That was an indication that we had been doing issues effectively. After the primary fights we noticed that the general public stopped being an impediment for ladies’s boxing and that the true rival was the robust machismo of the promoters. Thus far, they’re the occasion that has taken the longest to vary their mentality.”

La Guerrera says that right now it’s a sport that has normalized feminine participation, however it’s removed from reaching equal employment. “There may be nonetheless loads to do. A girl who works as a boxer can’t dwell off of this. She nonetheless has to search for different revenue or have one other job to have the ability to survive as a result of feminine fighters don’t dwell off the ring.”