Miscellaneous
Boxing is famous for many reasons. For its toughness, harshness that borders on cruelty at times. But it also gives anybody willing to dedicate, commit and submit themselves to learning at all costs. To breaking their body and mind over and over again in the chase of becoming the best. Maureen Shea epitomises all that. She fought battles outside the ring just to be able to do all of the above. She suffered in ways that not many recover from and she joins us on this episode to tell it all,With a record of 29-2 (13KO), Maureen was born and raised in the Bronx, New York to an Irish father, ( NYPD detective and Mexican Mum.As a pro she first trained with Luigi Olcese, she was eventually brought to Gleasons to train with well respected trainer Hector Roca and went on to hold the WBC interim female featherweight title, the IFBA super bantamweight title and challenged once for the WBA female super featherweight title in 2009 shes also won the NABA Featherweight title and IFBA Junior Featherweight title. Maureen is currently ranked number 2 by the WBA.