03:13Russia: 'Kazakhstan’s sexiest sportswoman' Firuza Sharipova hopes to box at Tokyo 2020
Professional female boxer Firuza Sharipova, voted 'Kazakhstan's sexiest sportswoman' in 2018, according to AllFight.ru website, hopes to represent her home country at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. The WIBA (Women's International Boxing Association) world champion and her manager Sergei Zavileysky were filmed at a training session in Moscow on Wednesday.
Zavileysky said that last week "one Asian country offered Firuza million dollars just for her to try to compete for that country." The champion, however, refused the offer.
According to Zavileysky, in order to participate at Tokyo 2020 Olympics as a member of Kazakhstan's national team, Sharipova needs to win the national championship and get a license for the world championships, which will be held in Russia this autumn. At the moment, Firuza is trained by the Russian national team's coach and spars with Russian athletes.
A native of Taraz, which lies 1,300 kilometres from the country's capital Astana, Sharipova became Kazakhstan's first ever professional female boxer aged 21 in 2016 after a successful amateur career.
Sharipova believes that "many people are wrong" when they say that boxing is not for girls. She said that boxing "in no way" interferes with her life, adding "outside the ring - [I am] an ordinary person, a girl."
03:13Professional female boxer Firuza Sharipova, voted 'Kazakhstan's sexiest sportswoman' in 2018, according to AllFight.ru website, hopes to represent her home country at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. The WIBA (Women's International Boxing Association) world champion and her manager Sergei Zavileysky were filmed at a training session in Moscow on Wednesday.
Zavileysky said that last week "one Asian country offered Firuza million dollars just for her to try to compete for that country." The champion, however, refused the offer.
According to Zavileysky, in order to participate at Tokyo 2020 Olympics as a member of Kazakhstan's national team, Sharipova needs to win the national championship and get a license for the world championships, which will be held in Russia this autumn. At the moment, Firuza is trained by the Russian national team's coach and spars with Russian athletes.
A native of Taraz, which lies 1,300 kilometres from the country's capital Astana, Sharipova became Kazakhstan's first ever professional female boxer aged 21 in 2016 after a successful amateur career.
Sharipova believes that "many people are wrong" when they say that boxing is not for girls. She said that boxing "in no way" interferes with her life, adding "outside the ring - [I am] an ordinary person, a girl."