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Sacha Hickey probably has the best record for amateur boxing. She has lost only once in all her life.
The GB boxer has been a junior and international stellar for young people and now has this form in elite competition.
Only this year, she won gold medals in important competitions, the Strandja tournament in Bulgaria and the Cup boxing in Brazil and beat two Olympians in the process.
The 21 -year -old has not lost a fight since 2018. This kind of winning race is almost unknown in amateur boxing, especially for someone who was an international group at the elite level.
She may have the best record for international amateur boxing.
“It’s probably being fair,” said Hickey Sky Sports. “You cannot choose who you box at the elite level.”
Hickey defeated Italian Olympian Angela Carini at the Strandja Tournament
She added: “I probably only won only 3-2 (divided decision) perhaps four times, all the others were unanimous.”
Hickey hopes to extend this seven -year -old winning race at the world championships, which start in Liverpool on September 4.
“I think I go to the head of the podium, I think I will be the one who will,” said Hickey. “Everything is really difficult work and self -confidence, these are probably the two main things
“It’s difficult, training, but when you are there, it’s easy.”
Hickey is not only for a first world championship medal, she is a real prospect for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
It all started for her playing boxing on the Nintendo Wii when she was a child. Her brothers wanted to go to a real boxing club and she followed them to Fisher ABC in Bermondsey.
Hickey trains for worlds at GB Gym in Sheffield (photos: GB boxing)
“I was the only girl there,” she recalls. “It was a bit intimidating, but it was as if no one was really disturbed. I have the impression that Fisher is one of those places you can be anyone. No one is really disturbed and everyone gets along.
“You can be anyone, do anything really, you can just come and train. Down Fisher, it was like a family.”
There, she was formed by legendary coach Steve Hiter. “Because I was his first little girl, I think it was special enough for him, to have me and make me a champion,” she said.
“He was quite the old school.”
This has prepared her for the position in which she is now. “Even since I was a schoolgirl, if I fought, they stuck to me with the elderly, or at least the young people with whom they put me. I always really exceeded my level,” added Hickey.
“Down with Fisher, I would always have widened the boys, so I never really had it in my own way, I have always been pushed into the gymnasium. So, when it comes to fights, it’s easy.”
She added: “It’s really crazy that we played the Nintendo Wii one day, then the next thing you know that you are training to, hope, to go to the Olympic Games.”
