Double Olympic gold-medallist Nicola Adams has revealed her ultimate dream is to headline her own show in Las Vegas
NICOLA ADAMS says her ultimate goal is the headline in Las Vegas.
Double Olympian champion Nicola Adams has expressed her desire to headline on the Vegas strip to take women’s boxing to the next level.
Nicola Adams is a double gold-winning Olympic Champion, and has also won one World Championship and one European and Commonwealth ChampionshipGetty ImagesThe 34-year-old will have her first professional fight tonight in Manchester on the undercard of the Liam Smith vs Liam Williams fightReuters
Adams said to the Press Association Sport: “Like every fighter my ultimate goal is to headline a show in Las Vegas and with the way the sport is building at the moment I see no reason why I can’t get there.
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“Other female boxers like Claressa Shields and Katie Taylor have been putting women’s professional boxing on the map and now that I’ve joined them it can only raise the bar again.”
The 34-year-old gives plenty of credit to her first coach, Alwyn Belcher, saying the 82-year-old trainer installed the belief into her career that one day she could be an Olympic champion and change the landscape of female boxing.
“Alwyn had no interest in training me when I went stepped in his gym and it took him about three years to change his mind,” Adams says of the now 82-year-old with whom she still occasionally works when she is back in Yorkshire.
Nicola Adams excelled in the amatuers, and will be hoping to cement her mark in the professional gameGetty Images
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"But it was Alwyn who told me I could be Olympic champion one day and turn professional. I owe Alwyn so much and it is nice to be able to look back and say he was right.
"I think having that belief at such an early age really made a difference for me and gave me something to aim for. Even in the bad times when I was injured I had a reason to get up and get back in the gym."
Nicola embarks on the next stage of her already impressive career when she makes her professional debut in Manchester against Argentina’s Virginia Carcamo on Saturday night.
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