Calgary's Kandi 'Krush' Wyatt fights for world boxing title on Canada Day yyc
“It’s a Canadian fighting in the U.K. for a world title on Canada Day.”
“In having Goitom Ghebrezgh as her sparring partner, it really tailored everything to help Kandi,” continued Short. “So on a daily basis, so she’s boxed over 100 rounds already with Natasha. That’s how we saw it.Article content “Each day, we get closer and closer, I’m going to be feeling better and better,” said Wyatt of the bout for the vacant IBF welterweight title. “The training’s done — the hard stuff’s done. I am in a great place both physically and mentally.”She was on the rise — at 8-1 — before COVID took the edge off that.
“So now I’m back in that mindset of like ‘I can do this’, and it is something I’ve been thinking about and wanting since I was like 10 years old, when one of my first boxing coaches … handed me a news article with Christy Martin on it. And I was just like, that’d be cool. Like, I want to do that. So, yeah, it’s fully within reach.Unlike pre-pandemic, women’s boxing is now putting up the kind of money that is life-changing.
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