Topping the bill in an historic first all-female show at a sold-out O2 could not be further removed from Savannah Marshall’s beginnings as a boxer.
She faced prejudice at every punch and was even kicked out of an amateur club in Sunderland when she turned up to spar as a 14-year-old.
Even her amateur club Hartlepool Headland shunned her at first and refused to let her spar.
