Huddersfield’s Rebecca Kane has won her latest boxing bout.

The former Irish dance, kick boxing and stick fighting world champion has made it two wins from her first three boxing bouts.

The latest one was at the Aria Suite in Leeds and it means Rebecca has won two of her first three fights and will be back in the ring in the New Year.

She said: “My natural fight weights would be flyweight to bantamweight which is 51kg to 53.5kg.

“With a long layoff I’ve allowed my weight to go up and I’m slowly getting it back down as I don’t believe in crash dieting or losing excess water before fights.”

Her opponent this time was Lesley Monks who is 61kg so heavier than Rebecca’s first two opponents.

 

 

Rebecca added: “Lesley has done a lot of fights in both boxing and Thai boxing and four months ago she fought for a super lightweight boxing belt.

“It was a good bout and Lesley had a style that challenged my initial game plan. She liked to clinch a lot but I kept a good tempo though and got the win.”

Rebecca fights out of Bethlehem Boxing in Leeds trained by Lee Murtagh who was a Professional Irish Champion.

Rebecca lost her first boxing bout last year on a points decision. She is a flyweight but her original opponent pulled out on the day of the bout so she took on a heavier featherweight who is a former national champion.

Rebecca won her second bout in September when she took on experienced opponent Sam Dekota who has had around 20 previous fights. Rebecca won with a body shot knockout in the second round.

In the past Rebecca won a world Thai boxing title in Germany in 2019 and became a stick fighting world champion in the Philippines back in 2006.

She won the World Irish Dance Association world title in 2017 and decided to do boxing in memory of her mum, Marcella, who died in 2015 at the age of 63.

“She loved boxing but never regarded my Thai boxing as proper boxing,” said Rebecca.

Rebecca’s martial arts school is the Kane Academy of Martial Arts (https://kaneacademy.com/) and her dance school is called Kane Irish Dance (https://kaneirishdance.com/).

Both are based at St James’ Hall on St James’ Road in Marsh.

Written by ANDY HIRST who runs his own Yorkshire freelance journalism agency AH! PR (https://ah-pr.com/) specialising in press releases, blogging, website content, copywriting and ghost-writing autobiographies.