London – When Friday’s all-women Boxing Xing Event was announced, she used to stood Cindy Nagamba something.
Many World Championship Belt. Nagamba wants one of his own.
“I looked at Natasha Jonas and L Ure Rain Price and Carolin Dubis with their belts, and I remember ‘Oh, it’s nice, I would love to meet one of them.’
To achieve goals is a kind of nagamba thing. At the Paris Games, he became the first athlete to compete as a refugee to get a medal When he took the bronze In the middleweight category.
A decade ago Cameroon -born Nagumba thought she would be deported from Britain. He is now about to start his professional start at Royal Albert Hall. She is facing P TE KIIST BAWANTton in the Super Welterweight Bout in London as part of the main-woman card by the Jonas vs Price Welterweight World Title Integration Fight.
“I can see it, dream of keeping my belt and becoming a world champion,” Nagamba said to the Associated Press, “But at the same time you have to stay in the present and you have to make sure you complete the work.”
The 26 -year -old Nagamba does not try to think too far. It is because he knows that circumstances can change so quickly.
Nagamba arrived at Britain at the age of 11 – his father and brother -in -law live here – set up on Bolton north to Manchester, and trying to learn and fit English. He picked up the boxing Xing at the age of 15, and escaped the stress of worrying about his residence.
He was arrested as a teenager while investigating at Manchester’s Immigration Center.
“My case was still pending. I applied and they rejected it. When they reject your case, you have to go again and apply again. I was in a situation where I was re -applying every time, however, they could have arrested me at any moment, “she said.” I imagined that they could arrest me on the street or at my house, at school or with my friends. I never knew it would be at the immigration center where I was usually (normally). “
Worrying that she would be deported, she thought herself: “I have no family in Cameroon, there is no family in Cameron. Who will take care of me? ‘
It was kept overnight at a detention facility in London before being released.
She came out as a gay when she was 18, eventually won the case and was given a refugee status. Similar relationships in Cameroon The country could be sentenced to five years in prison.
The Boxing Xing Ring in his progress – Nagamba was an amateur champion of England in three different weight – attracted the attention of Britain’s elite development program. Nagamba was brought in the hope of choosing Jonas, Price and others that he would eventually compete for Britain.
Nagamba, a flagbier for Olympic refugee team At the opening ceremony in Paris, still considered as their own on “GB B Boxing Xing”. After the Olymp Limpix, its name was added to the Wall LF F -Fam in the English Institute Sports of Sheffield, and he joined the British Olympian. Buckingham Palace Reception Where he meets King Charles III.
The main attraction is the 40 -year -old Natasha Jonas, a welterweight collision of Pay Generations, facing 30 -year -old L Ure Rain Price.
Both are former Olympians. Welsh B ER Xer Price (8-0) won a gold medal for Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. He is the WBA champion.
Jonas (16-2-1) of Liverpool participated in the 2012 London Games when women boxing entered the Olympic program. When she lost to Katy Taylor of Ireland in the quarter -finals, she was just short. Jonas has WBC and IBF Welterweight titles.
The American B ER Qsar Mikela Meyer has another major Welterweight Belt – WBO Championship.
WBC Lightweight Champion Carolin Dubois Also on the card. Dubois, whose older brother Daniel IBF is a heavyweight champion, will face South Korea’s Bo Me Ray Shin.
It is the second all-family event by promotion company B X Xxer and Sky Sports after their event on October 2022 in the O2 Arena (20,000 capacity) sold in London. Sky said the event has over 2 million TV audiences in Britain and Ireland.
Comparing, Royal Albert Hall is a small area with expected sales of 5,200. The place goes back In boxing, though.
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This story originally appeared on ABCNews.go.com
