“Everybody was telling me at that point that I would never be a champion because girls can’t be champions,” Braekhus, 38-2-1 (9 KOs), said. “Remember, this is a while ago. It was a very harsh critique, but this was before women could go to the Olympics, it was before the Me-Too movement, it was before women were allowed in boxing gyms to train alongside men. Some male trainers would refuse to train women. I had one trainer who didn’t want to train a woman. It was a very different time and atmosphere, but even then, I still knew I would be a champion one day.
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