Sacha Hickey has most likely the very best document in newbie boxing. She has solely misplaced as soon as in her complete life.
The GB boxer has been a stellar junior and youth worldwide and is now carrying that kind into elite competitors.
This 12 months alone she has received gold medals at important competitions, the Strandja match in Bulgaria and the World Boxing Cup in Brazil, and crushed two Olympians within the course of.
The 21-year-old has not misplaced a bout since 2018. That form of successful run is nearly extraordinary in newbie boxing, particularly for somebody who has been a world from age group to elite degree.
She might have the very best document in worldwide newbie boxing.
“Probably is to be fair,” Hickey instructed Sky Sports activities. “You can’t pick and choose who you box at elite level.”
She added: “I’ve probably only ever won a 3-2 [split decision] four times maybe, all the others have been unanimous.”
Hickey is hoping to increase that seven-year successful run on the World Championships, which start in Liverpool on September 4.
“I think I’ll top the podium, I think I’ll be the one to do it,” Hickey mentioned. “All it is really is hard work and self-belief, they’re probably the main two things
“It is exhausting, the coaching, however once you’re in there it comes simple.”
Hickey is not only gunning for a first World Championship medal, she is a real prospect for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
It all began for her by playing the boxing game on the Nintendo Wii when she was a child. Her brothers wanted to go to a real boxing club and she followed them to Fisher ABC in Bermondsey.
Hickey has been coaching for the Worlds on the GB gymnasium in Sheffield (Pictures: GB Boxing)
“I was the only girl there,” she recalled. “It was intimidating a bit, but it was like no one was really bothered. I feel like Fisher is one of those places where you can be anyone. No one’s really bothered and everyone gets along.
“You will be anybody, do something actually, you possibly can simply come alongside and practice. Down Fisher it was like a household.”
There she was trained by legendary coach Steve Hiser. “As a result of I used to be his first lady fighter, I feel it was fairly particular for him, to have me and make me right into a champion,” she said.
“He was fairly old fashioned.”
It prepared her for the position she is in now. “Even since I used to be a schoolgirl, if I went sparring they’d stick me in with the seniors, or not less than the youths they put me in with. I’ve all the time actually gone above my degree,” Hickey added.
“Down at Fisher I might all the time spar the boys, so I by no means actually had it my very own manner, I all the time received pushed within the gymnasium. So when it got here to the preventing, it got here simple.”
She added: “It is truly loopy that we have been simply enjoying the Nintendo Wii at some point after which the following factor you realize you are coaching to hopefully go to the Olympic Video games.”
