Safe Place: Christy Martin Looks Back on Her Tumultuous Career, Life

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After becoming a two-weight world champion at the age of forty-one, Martin didn’t fight for almost two years, but that had nothing to do with boxing. On November 23, 2010, she was the victim of a vicious attack from her husband Jim Martin, after she had informed him that she was leaving him for another woman. “He stabbed me five good times, and I also had cuts all over me. He punctured one of my lungs and cut my calf muscle almost completely from my leg. They had to stick it back on.

“He also shot me once, missing my heart with a 9mm handgun by three inches. He left me to die. I was laying on the floor, and every time I tried to get up, blood would squirt out of me. I was really scared. After he shot me, I prayed really hard for God to help me and show me some sign of how to get out. Almost immediately after I finished the prayer, I heard the shower water turn on, and that was my sign. At that point, I mustered enough strength to get up, get out of the house and flagged down someone that was passing by, who then took me to the hospital.”

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