{"id":1641358,"date":"2022-09-14T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641358"},"modified":"2022-09-14T18:39:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:39:17","slug":"boxing-wildheart-eyes-world-title-after-swapping-dance-floor-for-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boxing-wildheart-eyes-world-title-after-swapping-dance-floor-for-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing-Wildheart eyes world title after swapping dance floor for ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fboxing-wildheart-eyes-world-title-after-swapping-dance-floor-for-ring%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641358&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Philip O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n<p>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) \u2013     Since swapping ballet shoes for boxing gloves a decade ago, Lucy Wildheart has never looked back, and the 29-year-old is now aiming to take down Amanda Serrano on her way to a world title. <\/p>\n<p>Whatever about her considerable punching prowess, the Swedish boxer with a professional record of eight wins and one loss possesses fantastic footwork due to her dancing prowess. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is about the legs and feet \u2013 if you can move your feet, you can\u2019t be hit,\u201d Wildheart told Reuters ahead of her bout with Eva Cantos on Sept. 17 at the Civic Hall in Grays, some 20 miles (32km) east of central London. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything is about footwork and leg strength, and that\u2019s something I have a lot of from dancing,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>In her late teenage years, Wildheart was an enthusiastic member of a huge Swedish dance scene where young and old alike gather to dance in pairs, with the \u201cbugg\u201d (an early Swedish variation of the Lindy Hop) and the foxtrot particularly popular. <\/p>\n<p>Wildheart discovered boxing while working as a personal trainer, and when she began studying dance full time she quickly realised her two passions had a big overlap. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it would help my boxing, improve my footwork and balance. I applied to a dance course and got accepted, the first year it was around 30 hours of active dancing every week \u2013 ballet, contemporary and jazz,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Wildheart was accepted into Sweden\u2019s Ballet Academy, but believed her future lay in the ring. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI decided to move to England because I got the chance to focus more on boxing and to choose a little more what I wanted to do. Since then, I\u2019ve only really danced at home,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>STRONG &#038; EXPLOSIVE<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be really good at boxing, there\u2019s a lot of things you have to be good at. Coordination, strategy, fitness, you have to be strong, explosive and they\u2019re the things I\u2019m interested in, the science behind it,\u201d Wildheart said.<\/p>\n<p>Although she loves being a professional boxer, she still pines for her evenings on the dance floor. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s something with dancing, I have a hard time talking about it, a hard time watching it \u2013 I almost get sad, because I whish I could do more of it,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>Asked to describe her boxing style, Wildheart comes back to her feet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can box off the front foot or the back foot, depending on who I meet, but also angles \u2013 angles are probably my strong suit. It comes from the dancing \u2013 I can hit from every possible angle,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>With women\u2019s boxing enjoying increasing popularity, Wildheart wants to climb the featherweight rankings and take on Puerto Rican Serrano, who holds the WBC, WBO and IBO world titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to get to the first or second place in all the rankings and then hope that I get the offer (of a title fight),\u201d Wildheart said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fun to be in the mix, to be one of those that young girls look up to \u2026 but also to meet the best \u2013 you know you\u2019re the best when you\u2019ve won against good people,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Philip O\u2019Connor, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2749002\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D134-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D134-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2749005\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D135-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D135-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2749006\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D136-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D136-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2749007\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D138-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D138-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2749008\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D139-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D139-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Philip O\u2019Connor STOCKHOLM (Reuters) \u2013 Since swapping ballet shoes for boxing gloves a decade ago, Lucy Wildheart has never looked back, and the 29-year-old is now aiming to take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}