Danyelle Wolf is six-foot-tall, 152 lbs., two-time US female boxing champion, and a member of Team USA. XOS host Alex Monaco agreed to box with her. It did not go his way.
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Wolf appeared in an ESPN Body Issue, and spoke with Morty Ain about her fighting life.
“Bleed and sweat now so you don’t have to in the fight.” That’s what I tell myself whenever it gets tough. I want to be dead-dog tired during my training session and I want to push myself because, when it comes to fight day, you want to push through all those mental blocks.
“I picked up my first pair of boxing gloves just five or six years ago. When I started training to be a triathlete, people would stop me and ask if I was a fighter. One day some guy asked, ‘What gym do you fight out of? Because you have the build of a fighter.’ So I met him at a gym the next day, he showed me some punches and some basic combinations, and it was a very humbling experience. I said that day, right when I put those gloves on, ‘This is the sport I’m going all the way in on.’
“At first, they told me I couldn’t do it because I’m a girl. But I stuck with it. Now I’m a two-time USA Boxing national champion, continental champion and I’m on Team USA.
“Just because I’m a boxer doesn’t mean I’m not educated and not pretty. That’s people’s image of female fighters — that they’re brute and rough — and it’s not true. I’m educated, I wear high heels and dresses, and I love style and fashion.”
