BOXING to Trisha Lorenzo-Fallon is ``a beautiful, beautiful sport [which] like chess requires you to counter [moves]'' ``or get hit!''.
The qualified sports chiropractor from Kellyville, who recently won her first amateur boxing bout, said the sport has fascinated her since she watched Rocky as a child.
But she only took up the sport in May last year. She trains four days a week.
Lorenzo-Fallon fought her first amateur fight the PCYC State
Titles against Katie Skinner at former world champion Kostya Tszyu's gym in Rockdale on July 17 and won by split decision after three two-minute rounds, making her one of only a few women boxers in the state to have stepped into the boxing ring for a competitive bout since women's boxing was legalised in NSW last August.
And no one can accuse Lorenzo-Fallon of being squeamish after she dislocated her shoulder in the second round. She relocated it herself and kept fighting.
At this point, the self-confessed tomboy stresses that she is a fully qualified chiropractor and that this is not something she recommends other fighters doing.
She is a great admirer of German-Armenian professional boxer Susianna ``Susi'' Kentikian, better known as the ``Killer Queen''.
Kentikian, who is the world champion of the World Boxing Associations and the Women's International Boxing Associations, fights in the same weight division as Lorenzo-Fallon.
Women already fight in the Olympics' three other combat sports judo, tae kwon do and wrestling.
Lorenzo-Fallon wouldn't mind having the opportunity to participate in the Olympics, she said, and pointed to this as a part motivation for not turning professional.