In this pandemic, boxers must always be ready to struggle: Kika Chávez
▲ Former champion Kika Chávez fights in opposition to time after virtually two years of absence from boxing.Photograph Jam Media
Juan Manuel Vazquez
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, January 12, 2021, p. a12
Yéssica Kika Chávez, a former world flyweight champion and tremendous flyweight title contender, fights in opposition to time. Final December his return to boxing was canceled, after virtually two years with out preventing. An more and more widespread occasion in a enterprise that has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The labor outlook in boxing immediately can be very unstable and precarious.
Earlier than we had a margin of time of up to three months to put together a struggle, remembers Kika; however immediately it’s like within the boxing of yesteryear, at any second they had been referred to as to get into the ring. We’re the identical, ready to struggle when the chance presents itself.
The previous champion faces the boxing disaster due to the pandemic with temperance, particularly with persistence as a result of she is satisfied that this state of affairs will nonetheless stay within the quick future. However he’s nonetheless frightened in regards to the passage of time at 32 years previous.
The worst enemy of an athlete is time, he exposes; the absence of exercise and the passage of days with out preventing are affecting the guild. It has broken me severely.
Kika doesn’t need to waste the previous couple of years the place she will be able to ship nice moments as a boxer. On the identical time, with overwhelming naturalness, he reconsiders this stage as the start of an unavoidable sporting decline.
At this age we athletes start to decline, he factors out; I can not afford to waste these years. We have now to adapt to the difficulties of the second and proceed with our plans even when the time we dwell in is so difficult, he explains.
And not using a contract with a promotional firm, Kika negotiates her subsequent plans on her personal. Amongst them, benefiting from her standing as a former champion to problem the present WBC tremendous flyweight champion, Lourdes Juárez.
I’m a veteran and he or she is a brand new champion, we’re identified by the followers, I imagine that a lot of these combos can assist boxing. One thing that we who’re devoted to this enterprise want a lot, he concludes.
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