Big Brother’s Angel returns to the ring

[HS Press]

Big Brother’s Angel returns to the ring
 
Big Brother star Angel McKenzie is ready to resume her boxing career after her eviction from the Big Brother house last week. The Russian born Londoner says her stint on the hit show has renewed her enthusiasm for her professional boxing career and she’s wasted no time in lining up her next fight with a bout at the York Hall, Bethnal Green on July 18th.
 
McKenzie will have her eighteenth professional fight on the undercard of the Danny McIntosh – Nathan Cleverly British Light Heavyweight title fight with the Hennessy Sports event live on ITV4.
 
The 31-year-old has revealed that the pressure of being inside the Big Brother house is nothing compared to the pressure of being in the ring. “The pressure if far greater when you are a boxer,” said McKenzie. “In boxing the main muscle you need is your heart because when you are in the ring with another boxer then you really know what pressure is all about. The Big Brother house was nothing compared to that.”
 
Despite her eviction from the house McKenzie is hopeful that her appearance will draw more women to the sport. “I hope that by appearing on Big Brother it can raise the profile of women’s boxing. Unfortunately I left a bit early and I wish I could have stayed a little longer because I felt I was promoting general fitness as well as boxing in the house.
 
“Afterwards I told Davina McCall that I had failed in my bid to promote fitness but when I got home I found I had thousands and thousands of e-mails from people who saw the show and were interested to learn more about fitness and women’s boxing. I had a lot of emails from girls looking to know how they could get into boxing so I’m happy that my appearance in the house has made an impact.”
 
McKenzie created a stir on the show by drinking raw eggs as part of her diet but the fitness fanatic says that she can’t understand all the fuss. “Everyone’s been asking me about the raw eggs but of course in the shops you can buy the egg whites just like you would buy milk and they are very good for you but I didn’t have that option in the Big Brother house. Of course there is always a small risk of salmonella but it’s quite a normal thing for boxers to do ever since it was made famous in the first Rocky film.”
 
McKenzie’s three year professional boxing career has brought mixed results but she still believes that she can become a World Champion. Despite being based in London the July 18th bout will be only the fourth time she has fought in the U.K. “My record is very misleading and this fight at the York Hall will actually be the first time I have fought at featherweight which is my natural weight.
 
“Unfortunately there are only 11 female professional boxers in Britain so it is very hard to get regular fights here. I have travelled all over Europe to get fights and even then they are always at an unnatural weight for me. I even fought at middleweight which is 2 stones above my natural weight class but I like to fight as much as possible because the ring is the best place to learn and improve.
 
“I have fought in France, Russia, Germany, The Canaries, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Ireland but when you travel to Europe and give away so many advantages it is very hard to get a fair decision so I feel that I should have won a lot more fights than my record shows.
 
“However now that I’m fighting in my own hometown I hope the situation will be different and it will be a fresh start for me in my career.”
 
 A clash of unbeaten fighters tops the bill at the York Hall on July 18th with Danny McIntosh and Nathan Cleverly squaring off for the British Light Heavyweight title. The undercard features former British and European Champion Jon Thaxton alongside heavyweight sensation Tyson Fury and Ireland’s European Union Lightweight Champion Andy Murray.
 
Hot prospects Steve O’Meara, Dwayne Lewis, Lee Purdy, Del Rogers and Bobby Ward will join McKenzie on an action packed night of championship boxing. Tickets (£35 Unreserved and £70 Ringside) are available from the Ticketline box office on 0844 888 4402 or via http://www.ticketline.co.uk.

[Adamj1987]

i wonder if it will get on TV

[Wales]

Not interested in womens boxing or big brother, and for that reason, Im out...

[Londonirish]

Not interested in womens boxing or big brother, and for that reason, Im out...

Same here but i have Watch Big Bro a little, but the only way id be interested in it is to see her GET KO'D what i see of her in there she Really bugged me

[Dioufy]

Martin Power Vs Angel McKenzie.

The way you have been going, Martin, I would say McKenzie KO4.

Only joking my good man.

DD

[jamesmcdonnell]

I don't understand how she's going to do well - she seems to be practically anorexic.

[Spud]

FFS - Meaty Micks press releases have reached a new low - who gives a **** about this??

[gunners9191]

iv been boxing since 7 years old and i have never eaten a raw egg

[caffrey]

shes very annoying and so is everyone else connected with that lousy show.Davina mccall is a f ing creep of the highest order

[Londonirish]

Martin Power Vs Angel McKenzie.

The way you have been going, Martin, I would say McKenzie KO4.

Only joking my good man.

DD

My excuse would have to be the weight difference

[Dioufy]

Martin Power Vs Angel McKenzie.

The way you have been going, Martin, I would say McKenzie KO4.

Only joking my good man.

DD

My excuse would have to be the weight difference

[Adamj1987]

shes very annoying and so is everyone else connected with that lousy show.Davina mccall is a f ing creep of the highest order

davina is a milf

and i like womens boxing

[n1ebf]

shes very annoying and so is everyone else connected with that lousy show.Davina mccall is a f ing creep of the highest order

davina is a milf

and i like womens boxing

Davina IS a milf, no doubt about it. But I don't like women's boxing. IMO they lack the physical constitution for it...maybe the better ones get away with it. 5 year's ago I saw a bird get taken out like Hatton got taken out by Pacman and frankly it sickened me. I've not been able to give the missus a good right hand since!
No that was a joke the last bit...that isn't right.

[n1ebf]

that's exaxtly right lol. Left hooks ever since lol, it's really brought me on actually

the trick with Davina is just try to ignore anything that comes out of her gob and you've got quite a tasty , if slighter older woman....great tone though some fat pigs just let themsleves go.

It's true though she does make Michale Owen and Ronaldo look like good, decent , value for money giving pro's.

I like that little thing on countdown that does the numbers....not Stelling lol!

Can't remember what this thread was about but not fckin' Davina Mccall was it?

[whiteboy]

allegedly and sky must be quaking in their boots at this news

no need to bother with the PPV now

[jamesmcdonnell]

shes very annoying and so is everyone else connected with that lousy show.Davina mccall is a f ing creep of the highest order

davina is a milf

and i like womens boxing

Davina IS a milf, no doubt about it. But I don't like women's boxing. IMO they lack the physical constitution for it...maybe the better ones get away with it. 5 year's ago I saw a bird get taken out like Hatton got taken out by Pacman and frankly it sickened me. I've not been able to give the missus a good right hand since!
No that was a joke the last bit...that isn't right.

Right so, if a woman get's taken out like Hatton got taken out it's not ok, but it's ok for Hatton to get taken out.

Women are made of bone, sinew, muscle, blood and skin the same as men. The notion that they are too delicate is just ridiculous.

Lucia Rijker used to maul some of her male sparring partners by all account - so how do you explain that? Oh perhaps she was 'too manly.'

Women are never going to be as physically strong as men who are as physically gifted genetically and as well trained, but then they aren't fighting men, so what's the problem.

[n1ebf]

I think it was that Rijker who scored the KO I was talking about. Not manly at all, very attractive blonde as I recall..if Rijker's a dog then I'm obviously thinking of someone else...German promotion I think it was.
It's just that she was so physically superior to the other lass. I take the point re: Hatton. Hatton was out like a light, shocking way to lose tbh, as bet he's sick as a dog still...but the woman that got KO'd seem to be slow motion, she looked like she was about to throw up then everything just shut down, first the eyelids then the knees and just landed on the spot, probably hasn't boxed again. I don't know....I just ain't seen a KO as bad in the hundreds of men's matches I've watched, or attended, whereas this was probably only the 3rd or 4th women's match I'd ever seen....maybe that influences my opinion.