To all the pundits out there that say female vs female fighting is bad:
Fighting to Give Women a Fighting Chance
Toronto's largest women's shelter, built on a heritage-listed site, is on the hunt for a new home. Recently, one unique fundraiser helped to raise money for it.
Toronto IST
Last Friday 300 Muay Thai kick-boxing enthusiasts flocked to the Great Hall for the second Girl Fight this year, a bid to help raise money for the largest women’s crisis and relief centre in Toronto, Nellie’s.
The notion of hosting a kickboxing night to shed light on women’s issues like domestic violence may seem a little screwy at first, but for organizer Anna Von Frances it made complete sense.
“How much we raise, it’s never going to be enough,” the thirty-year-old founder of official event host Pink Mafia told us. But, she continued, “after I visited Nellie’s shelter I knew something like this event could change their lives. It’s a chance to showcase women in combat sports—and showcase confidence—and to give back to women who need a bit of a hand.”
The Great Hall is no shabby venue when it comes to hosting boxing events; the ring is an official size (20 by 20 feet) and the second tier allows viewers to peer down on the fighters. What they saw: a range of all-female kickboxing events, with fighters from a variety of clubs from around the GTA bashing it out in four main amateur fights, with demos and sparring hit outs wedged in between the main sets.
Von Frances had been boxing for just under two years. She turned to the combat sport as an alternative exercise treatment when she became ill, but says it gave her the confidence to do things she never considered doing before, like running through a ravine by herself any time of the day or night. “I don’t worry about getting raped anymore. The confidence it gives you is incredible,” she said. “Most women don’t park underground and are forever looking over their shoulder late at night. Boxing gave me the confidence to defend myself, or at least be able to get away.”
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