Alicia Doyle: Fighting Chance

February 08, 2022

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February 8, 2022

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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

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Alicia Doyle: Fighting Chance

"My boxing career doesn't have the typical fairy tale ending. I quit after my first and only professional match. I never won a world title or a championship belt in the pros. The crescendo of my story doesn't end with my arm raised victorious in the ring. My wins came after I left the roped-off square, when I had a chance to contemplate the lessons I learned in the fight game. These lessons, which transcended into epiphanies, are my greatest reward." Alicia Doyle is an award-winning journalist who discovered boxing at age 28 in the late 1990s when she went on assignment at a boxing gym for at-risk youth called Kid Gloves. During her boxing career, Alicia won two Golden Gloves championship titles and earned three wins by knockout--and her pro debut at age 30 in the year 2000 was named The California Female Fight of the Year. What follows is an excerpt from her award-winning book,"Fighting Chance." { read more }