“Yeah, I would have given her the last fight, but I still feel that I was the better boxer that night and I did outbox her, and I still feel that I am a better boxer,” said St. In other words, she was a fighter, no matter what the couch potatoes said, and in going the distance with Martin, it was a win everywhere except on the judges’ scorecards. But what was lost over the years because of her looks and her prime placement on Top Rank’s Oscar De La Hoya cards was that this Mexican-American young lady did her roadwork like everybody else, worked long hours in the gym like everybody else, and took punches like everybody else. Was she Sugar Ray Robinson or Muhammad Ali in the ring? No. John I, many fans and pundits saw it as a mismatch, a fight in which the Playboy covergirl was going to get mauled by the heavy-handed “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” But something happened on the way to Martin’s 10 round decision win – Mia St. “But I just felt like this is one fight that I couldn’t let go of, and until I accomplished that, I don’t think I’d be able to retire.” John in one of the more honest statements given by a professional prizefighter. “I’m always going to be offered fights, and I think a fighter has to come to a point in their career where they accept that they can no longer do this, and be secure and confident in themselves to let it go,” said St. So even though she had not stepped into the ring since outpointing Tammy Franks in an October 2010 bout, she held out hope that one of the many people offering her fights would offer her the one she actually wanted. John’s lone fistic desire before hanging up the gloves was to get a rematch with Christy Martin, the women’s boxing pioneer who decisioned her in a highly publicized 2002 bout. ![]() It wasn’t to avenge her first loss to Rolanda Andrews, throw hands again with Holly Holm, or to regain the WBC international title she lost to Brooke Dierdoff. ![]() John needed to get back in a pro boxing career that began in 1997. By Thomas Gerbasi, photo by Mary Ann Owenįor the better part of ten years, there was only one fight Mia St.
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