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Joanna Walters
AUSTIN (TEXAS): Ann `Brown Sugar' Wolfe is such a terrifying boxer she has run out of women willing to go into the ring with her — so she plans to fight a man instead. In what promises to be the most sensational `battle of the sexes' in sport since Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs at tennis in 1973, Ms. Wolfe will go glove to glove with a man in August. "I believe my punches will knock a guy out — an average male boxer, a fighter like me. I'm in the ring to destroy," Ms. Wolfe said, stalking around her local gym here. The mother-of-two holds seven world titles across four weight categories from the various organising bodies in this embryonic sport. After her most recent victory, in which she knocked 6ft 6 inches Vonda Ward out cold, the sport's top women stopped coming forward to fight 5ft 9inches Ms. Wolfe. Ms. Wolfe's camp has offered the most famous name in the game — Muhammad Ali's daughter, Laila Ali — $500,000. But the match has not materialised. "I think Laila would fight her, but her husband and manager won't let her. He's afraid she will lose," said a senior member of Ms. Wolfe's camp. Now Ms. Wolfe is so frustrated she wants to fight a man. "It will not be a sideshow," she insisted. "I want to be able to show my real skill. And I want to put food on the table for my two daughters." Mississippi, one of the few U.S. States to allow mixed prizefighting, is expected to be the venue for the fight, which would have a $100,000 purse.— © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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