Rising British boxing star Fran Hennessy admits she has been “overwhelmed” by response to the video about her struggles with physique picture as a teenager which has gone viral on social media.
The 20-year-old, who’s unbeaten in her first six skilled fights and is concentrating on a future world title bout, posted the video on her social channels which begins along with her studying to skip as a toddler and ends with clips from her intense boxing exercises as an grownup.
The video has been seen 1.2m occasions on Hennessy’s Instagram account alone.
“I was overwhelmed with the love and support it got. I never imagined it would be that big and I’m just blessed to have got that love and support,” Hennessy informed Sky Sports activities.
“My dad was telling me for about two months to place it up and I used to be a bit nervous as a result of the younger insecure woman in me was pondering ‘I do not need folks to see me obese, stomping after I’m skipping’ however I am so grateful I did as a result of so many younger children, mother and father have been commenting saying how a lot it is helped their younger children.
“I even had a younger child come as much as me the opposite day with a rope exhibiting me what number of skips she had learnt to do.
“I was just amazed by the love and support and I’m so grateful to be in the position I’m in.”
Hennessy is now heading to the Homes of Parliament on Tuesday to discuss the constructive impression boxing can have on the lives of younger folks.
“Boxing has helped me massively. I wouldn’t be where I am in now without boxing, I don’t know what I’d be doing,” she stated.
“I was heavily dyslexic at school and found it very hard to concentrate in a classroom and now I’m going to Parliament to talk about what we can do for young kids in school.
“I had an incredible upbringing; I had help from my mother and father – some younger children do not have that and it is about placing that in place serving to them consider they will obtain no matter they wish to obtain, whether or not that is in sport or anything.”
Hennessy won her most recent fight against Gemma Ruegg at the Royal Albert Hall in March, dominating on the way to an 80-72 points win over eight rounds.
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Final weekend Hennessy was on the opposite aspect of the ropes at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York to observe Katie Taylor seal a majority choice win over Amanda Serrano of their trilogy bout.
“It was amazing from Katie Taylor,” stated Hennessy.
“Both Amanda Serrano and Katie have had three great fights and fair play to both of them, but Katie cemented her legacy the other day and it was just amazing to see.”
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Savannah Marshalls questioned the scorecards after her factors loss to Shadasia Inexperienced. Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano 3 is now accessible to observe globally on Netflix.
The cardboard included the returning Savannah Marshall, who controversially misplaced on break up choice to Shadasia Inexperienced. Marshall disputed the judges’ scoring – as did Hennessy.
“To be honest, I thought Savannah won the fight,” she stated.
“After two years out, to do that I thought was brilliant. And the judges, I don’t know how on Earth you gave Savannah two rounds but I just think it was disgusting and she deserved a lot better than that. I believe they need to rerun the rematch.”
