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The Woman in the Ring

By AAN Staff
december 2, 2002  11:47 am
The Woman in the Ring
Texas boxer Valerie Mahfood has had the crap kicked out of her by bar bouncers for looking too much like a man. She's had the crap kicked out of her by inmates at a maximum-security prison. Most recently, she's had the crap kicked out of her -- on national TV, no less -- by ring prodigy Laila Ali. But, encouraged by her tough-talking, cigar-smoking father, Mahfood takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Dallas Observer staff writer Rose Farley talks to "A Girl Named Suicide," who may just change the face of women's boxing.
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