Ann Najjar, aka 'The Mitt Queen,' is a well-known and -respected boxing trainer from San Diego, who works with professional and Olympic athletes, celebrities, and appears in the movie 'Creed III'
known for her skills holding the mitts in the boxing ring for the athletes she trains. It was the first time she watched her older brother, a mixed martial arts fighter, in a professional fight that inspired her to learn more about the sport.
“I never realized how nerve racking, intense, and exciting the sport was until I went to his first fight,” she saidabout how boxing changed her life. “It was at that moment that I realized I needed to learn and understand the sport.” Her brother invited her to join him at his training gym, where she started taking boxing classes, moving up to hitting the gym five days a week. By 2015, she was managing her brother’s career and had fallen in love with the sport. She’s been a boxing coach and trainer for more than 10 years now, but it was the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and social media that catapulted her profile.
It takes a lot of skill to hold mitts. You need to understand how to flow on the mitts, meaning you have never-ending combos, you are calling out what to do while holding at the same time, and moving on to the next combo while still holding for the prior combo called.You have to be thinking quick and ahead to hold mitts. You never want a fighter waiting for you to think of the next thing to hit on the mitts.To be honest, I’m so used to it, I don’t have to think about it. It comes natural to me.
MBJ and Jonathan Majors are both great athletes. They had a goal, and they knew how to achieve it. The training some days were tough on the body, but like true athletes, they pushed through it. I put them through fight camp like I would a real fighter.Dwight Howard, Ryan Garcia, Terence Crawford, Florian Munteanu [who played Viktor Drago in “Creed II” and “Creed III”], Monte Morris, Mario Lopez, Josh Bridges, and many more.
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