{"id":25886,"date":"2015-03-25T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T04:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=25886"},"modified":"2015-03-25T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T04:11:45","slug":"fighting-like-a-girl-bay-area-boxer-wins-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/fighting-like-a-girl-bay-area-boxer-wins-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting like a girl: Bay Area boxer wins world championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25888\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Melissa-McMorrow_01web.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25888\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Melissa-McMorrow_01web.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Melissa &quot;Mighty&quot; McMorrow poses at B Street Boxing in San Mateo March 17 . Photo Diana K. Arreola\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Melissa-McMorrow_01web.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Melissa-McMorrow_01web.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Melissa-McMorrow_01web.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa &#8220;Mighty&#8221; McMorrow poses at B Street Boxing in San Mateo March 17 . Photo Diana K. Arreola<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eddie Croft knows about grit. His droopy left eye\u2014the lasting badge he\u2019s earned toiling against the best of his boxing era\u2014painfully, yet proudly, evidences that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fought killers,\u201d boasted the 45-year-old from his chair in the duskily lit downstairs room that is B Street Boxing in San Mateo. Croft, despite a 12-year professional career and championship bouts against renowned Mexican fighters Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales, never won a world title. But one of his fighters has. And she, like Croft, has grit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of it is making the best of the hand that you\u2019re dealt,\u201d Croft said of his Bay Area-based fighter Melissa \u201cMighty\u201d McMorrow. \u201cShe\u2019s 4-foot-10 on a good day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMorrow, a fighter who has been routinely underpaid and dismissed by boxing promoters and judges despite continuously proving she\u2019s one of the best 112-pounders in her sport, made sure Feb. 28 was a good day. That was when she travelled to Rosarito, Mexico and challenged Tijuana\u2019s Kenia Enriquez for the women\u2019s World Boxing Organization flyweight title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, I was surprised that Kenia picked such a big fight [for] her first title defense,\u201d McMorrow said. \u201cAnd the only thing I can think, is that they just completely underestimated me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For 10 rounds, the 33-year-old McMorrow (10-5-3, 1 KO) hostilely stalked her then unbeaten (13-1, 6 KO\u2019s) 21-year-old foe, stubbornly charging through the younger and taller Enriquez\u2019s longer and straighter, \u201cprettier\u201d punches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some people that have really pretty styles and I am just not one of those people,\u201d McMorrow said. \u201cI almost have to dirty it up in order for people to see it my way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McMorrow narrowly lost her prior two fights in Mexico against Mexican opponents Mariana Juarez and Jessica Chavez. But against Enriquez, the judges favored her. Obliging her corner\u2019s uncomplicated and tactful advice of \u201cdon\u2019t let her breath,\u201d McMorrow bobbed and weaved and bashed the champion with rights and lefts on the inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn every fight she\u2019s been in\u2014without fail\u2014eventually the people have to fight inside,\u201d Croft said. \u201cThey can run, but eventually she\u2019ll get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a demanding attack plan to occupy a fighter\u2019s space for the entirety of a bout, but it\u2019s one that proved victorious. McMorrow\u2014by split decision\u2014was crowned the new women\u2019s WBO flyweight champion of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d answered McMorrow when probed about her toughness, her grit. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s the Brazilian blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That blood showed early on. McMorrow\u2014the child of her Brazilian mother Zulmira and father Clyde (whom she kindly describes as a 70-year-old geek who was a hipster before there were hipsters)\u2014pleaded with her mother to let her play soccer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said it was for boys,\u201d McMorrow said. But by age 8, McMorrow had convinced Zulmira otherwise. She played soccer well through her college days at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, assuming the position of center midfielder\u2014a role typically reserved for the fittest and toughest athletes on the field. She backed that up with running 400-meter hurdles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always excelled at the really grinding sports or events,\u201d McMorrow said. \u201cI feel I have to use it to my advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did that in her mid-twenties while attending a fight party, the kind where patrons partake in some unsanctioned fighting fun. Having never even participated in a brawl yet believing she could win, McMorrow\u2014whose face wouldn\u2019t necessarily be considered intimidating\u2014chose an opponent to fight in the makeshift ring. She was hooked. And soon after that she sought a trainer in Oakland-based Robert Salinas. McMorrow then relocated to San Francisco, where she was in need of sparring partners. She found one in Croft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEddie has always had the rule that he only spars with people that can\u2019t hurt him. So he used to spar with me,\u201d McMorrow said. \u201cHe won\u2019t do it anymore. So to me, that says that it\u2019s too painful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fighting for fairness<\/strong><br \/>\nFeb. 28 wasn\u2019t the first time McMorrow was underestimated\u2014or underpaid. She was 30 years old when she was handpicked to lose against German-based women\u2019s world flyweight champion Susi Kentikian in Frankfurt, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>McMorrow made less than $10,000 for her first world title, and $15,000 for a title defense, which was her career high. Those sums, which many men in boxing clear before ever fighting for a championship, are why McMorrow has to maintain her fulltime job as an architect at Solar City\u2014a San Mateo-based solar energy company. Maintaining a fulltime job along with a boxing career is something the majority of elite male boxers don\u2019t have to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just no money in boxing. I could never really justify leaving my job,\u201d McMorrow said. \u201cIt seems unfair that men get paid a lot more. Especially when I feel there would be a draw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But with her 34th birthday looming, so is the end of McMorrow\u2019s fighting career. She\u2019s looking for two more fights, a rematch with Mexico\u2019s Arely Muci\u00f1o, and a bout with Chico, California\u2019s Ava Knight. She hopes a potential contract with Zanfer Promotions, one of the top boxing promoters in Mexico, will help get her that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would love to fight in the U.S. Especially if we got a chance to fight in the Bay Area, so Melissa could have somewhat of a hometown advantage, which we don\u2019t ever have,\u201d Croft said. \u201cWe always go in as the enemy. And we always go in as the B side \u2026 and more often than not, Melissa wins the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bay area flyweight champion boxer Melissa \u201cMighty\u201d McMorrow is &#8220;4-foot-10 on a good day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":25888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[3280,4445,4447],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-en","tag-boxing","tag-melissa-mighty-mcmorrow","tag-world-boxing-organization","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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