Aside from the numerous records that will no doubt get
smashed at the forthcoming Olympics, something is about to happen that you will have
never seen before. London 2012 will be
the first games in which women are allowed to box. Make no mistake, it’s going to be awesome. How it’s taken this long is beyond me, but
I’m damn sure that were it not for the will of Jane Couch (MBE) we might have
had to wait another 4 years for this to happen.
Until 1998 it was illegal for ladies to get involved with
the sport. During the summer of this
year, Jane Couch changed the world of boxing in a ground breaking court case
against the British Boxing Board of Control. Prior to this trial, they had refused to grant
her with a boxing licence on the grounds that PMS made women too unstable to
box. Yes, before you ask, that’s the
same BBBoC that granted Tyson with a licence.
Twice. 