Christy Martin
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Name: Christy Martin
Alias: Coalminer's Daughter
Birth Name: Christy Renea Salters
Hometown: Orlando, Florida, USA
Birthplace: Bluefield, West Virginia, USA
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 164cm
Reach: 163cm
Matchmaker: Record
Promoter: Record
Pro Boxer: Record
- Manager & Trainer: Jim Martin
- Christy Martin Gallery
While attending Concord College in Athens, West Virginia, on a basketball scholarship, Martin entered a Tough Woman competition on a dare and won it. After graduating with an education degree in 1991, she decided to pursue a ring career. Jim Martin became her trainer, manager and public relations director. He later became her husband.
Martin's six-round unanimous decision win against Deirdre Gogarty on March 16, 1996, earned her recognition by the WBC as its nominal Female World Lightweight Champion. (the sanctioning body did not offer women's title belts for open competition at that time).
Martin was featured on the cover of the April 15, 1996, issue of Sports Illustrated.
Martin defeated Dakota Stone by a 10-round majority decision to win the WBC Female Super Welterweight Championship on September 2, 2009.
In November 2010, Jim Martin stabbed Christy repeatedly and shot her in the back after she told him that she was leaving him for a woman with whom she was having a relationship. She escaped when Jim, thinking she was dead, got in the shower to wash the blood off. She flagged down a motorist and begged him to take her to the hospital. In April 2012, Jim was convicted of attempted second-degree murder with a firearm, attempted manslaughter and aggravated battery. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.