Danielle Perkins aims to be the world’s overweight hero
The unexplored endpoint of women’s boxing is its overweight section, a barren and unrecognized landscape that stands quietly compared to the tent fights of Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and co.
But there is a lot of punching pressure and even more talk from the United States that takes inspiration from her mother, who has survived a catastrophic mental trauma that took away the life she once knew, and is to break a hole through the glass roof of a catch.
Danielle Perkins is on track to become a female heavyweight champion – along with Joshua and Fury as peers, she would be a high value product that could be “catapult boxing” and her voice would not want equality but growing taller.
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Savannah Marshall, the undisputed world champion, joked that she would rather fight for a middleweight title because “what woman wants heavyweight named after her name?”
Women’s boxing revivals that include Marshall, Katie Taylor, Terri Harper, Claressa Shields and Jessica McCaskill are limited under the largest categories.
The weight range is more appropriate (heavy weight is over 175lbs for women, over 200lbs for men) but there is no female champion in the region that is a showbiz center for men.
The latest, Alejandra Jiminez, recently failed a drug test and WBC No. 1 contestant Laura Ramsey is 51 years old.
Step forward Danielle Perkins.
“I want to put my mark on the sport as a female boxer, and sit on the throne as a female heavyweight,” she says. Sky Sports. “I want to invite anyone, everyone, who is athletic and strong to step into the ring and fight for the crown.”
Her adviser Mark Taffet said: “I believe that a true female heavyweight champion, both inside and outside of the ring, would capture women’s boxing and create interest and passion among a new generation of fans. follow.
“Danielle Perkins is six feet tall, 200 pounds, she is in amazing shape, she has great boxing skills, and she behaves like a champion. She is the perfect woman to lead and manage. fulfilling the promise of a revived female heavyweight division.
The speech is bold for a contestant who only got two professional fights but has reason to be excited.
Perkins became the first U.S. non-professional amateur champion, male or female, in three years when she defeated defensive champion Yang Xiaoli in China in 2019.
It’s already a remarkable turn from when Perkins lay motionless, heavily polluted and with her sporting career a ruin.
I want to put my mark on the sport as a female boxer, and sit on the throne as a female heavyweight.
Danielle Perkins
Perkins was an outstanding college basketball player before a professional career led her to teams in Italy, the Czech Republic, Puerto Rico, Austria and Spain.
But she was hit by a vehicle, left paralyzed and eventually had to walk again.
“At my darkest level, if I couldn’t have athletics again, I didn’t want to survive,” she says.
“Some things in your life allow you to stay calm or turn a corner by making difficult choices.
“I refused to give up. I wanted to get the basics back – walking again, being active, and playing basketball again was my ultimate goal.”
Perkins started exercising again and fell into a sport that was like where she is from.
“I was raised in Brooklyn at home with Mike Tyson fans but boxing was not an option for me,” she says. “My father wouldn’t let his daughter make a box so I played ball- basket. “
After accepting that her basketball career had been completed, Perkins “wanted to be competitive but didn’t know how” when a friend realized that her physical dimensions would be ominous within a ring.
“But I thought: ‘I don’t want to be hit in the face!'”
Now Perkins, who remembers the frenzy in New York at Tyson’s heyday, wants the same impact on the women’s overweight region.
“My goal is for people to say: ‘You’re 200lbs? Train hard enough and maybe you can fight Danielle’.”
She will fight for the third time in a rematch with Monika Harrison on March 5, on the Claressa Shields all-women sub-card.
It is hoped that a pregnant woman will be a physically pregnant woman with a backdrop of hostility that demands a powerful change.
Perkins says of the revitalization of the glamor sector: “It ‘s important for equality across the board.
“We need to have a female division for the Tyson Furys, the Anthony Joshuas, the Deontay Wilders.
“If we had that athleticism and skill in the female heavyweight division, there would be so many people interested in it.
“It’s as important to the male division as having a strong, talented female heavyweight division.”
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The purpose and strength behind Perkins, 38, is blood.
“My mum always got over things,” she says. “She always worked so hard.
“There were drugs, cracking, robbery, murder but we didn’t overcome that because my mother was the center of the community.
“She made a bubble for us and we didn’t see those things.
“When my mum was battling cancer, she had the same mind.
“I understand now it’s not about what’s around you, it’s about your mind.”
Perkin believes that dragging the female pregnant department to the same successful platform as the men makes it difficult not to ask her one final question.
Joshua no Fury?
She laughs and stops: “I’m very slippery and hit hard.
“I’m more like Fury – it’s slippery, it hits hard, it has a strategy, from around it it makes tough changes, it looks like a medium weight fight like a heavyweight, it’s he is strong and tall, he can fight going backwards or forwards. “
If a female heavyweight can emerge with similar skill and charisma, the boxing landscape would be renewed.