[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…when Imane was being discussed during the Olympics, I looked at some of her fight losses, which is something that conflicted me a lot because it seemed to contradict ‘advantaged’…I’m not someone who is hugely familiar with boxing but I recall someone saying that they personally felt that Imane’s win against Angela Carini, was it…?..didn’t to them feel as though it displayed any fighting technique as such but just more ‘force and power’, that they wouldn’t have said that she excelled in her sport other than a physical power…which is interesting for me because she was assigned female at birth and has lived her childhood and life as female so therefore has not had ‘the privilege’ of male in her home country in terms of training…as a female, she wasn’t able to train as a boxer until she was much older…16yrs old, I think…which is very late for an Olympic athlete/competitor…and in that training that many female competing boxers would have had from a much younger age, is that not where techniques and refinements and the skills of competing in general are learned…?…so it could be said, that her development in the sport is/has been late because of her country restrictions of being female…?…and maybe explain convincing losses of the past to those who have honed and finessed their techniques as well as any physical power they have…I don’t know what her recent fights/history have been other than the Olympics so I don’t know what win/loss results there have been in recent years but I think the Kellie Harrington loss was a few years ago so it would be interesting to know in recent years, whether the wins are the dominating results now…I guess that there is no way of knowing that without risking the physical safety of a competitor with a potential power advantage in a combat arena…

I watched the fight against Kellie Harrington and Kellie was a far better boxer, imane barely landed a punch, they were in different weight classes though last Olympics so there was no rematch between them to see if it would have had a different outcome