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In the past six months alone the blonde bomber has had her first amateur boxing fight, her first kickboxing fight and now she is about to branch out into her first Muay Thai fight at the Croxton Park Hotel in Melbourne on Sunday night. Because of a lack of willing opponents, Howett has had to adjust her game plan and learn new skills for each contest. Ever since winning her boxing debut on a stoppage earlier this year and her first kickboxing fight on unanimous points in December, Howett has had trouble finding opponents. Her trainer and promoter Joe Nader has been working the phones as Howett works on her punching and kicking technique at Brunswick’s Powerplay Gym in the hope that someone will step up to the plate. The imposing-looking 25 year old has also been keeping up her acting work, appearing in plays and short films while she bides her time to enter the ring. “Acting is a big part of who I am,” she says. After months of searching, Nader finally found a willing opponent in Kirrily Brown from Sydney’s Black Belt Pro Gym. But he had to offer a state title and modified Muay Thai rules, which include the use of knees but not elbows, to bring her on board. “Trainers just don’t want their girls to fight Sarah, so she’s worthy of a state title because nobody wants to take her on,” Nader says. “Sarah gets a little bit frustrated but she loves her training. I have to tell her to leave it to me.” Nader says he has similar trouble with his main event fighter, heavyweight Toby Mitchell, who will headline the show when he takes on Tom Tomba from PNG. Nader said he had exhausted all the local options before seeking someone from further afield brave enough to take on the heavily tattooed Mitchell. “Toby KOs people in the first round. They (trainers) always say they’ll get back to me when I try to match him. But they never do.” Howett began training at Powerplay, Nader’s Brunswick gym, when she started working there about 18 months ago. Read more at: http://www.kickboxing.martialarm.com/female-kickboxers-rock/. |
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