It is an eminently masculine sport and Maiva Hamadouche (Albi, 11/4/1989) knows that respect is earned with punches and hooks. First crowned super featherweight in November 2016 under the auspices of IBF (one of four international federations with WBAThe WBC and the WBO), held the title for six years. And although he says that “men cannot stand being dominated by a woman in a ring”, Maïva he has earned the respect of other boxers with his titles.
With a height of 1’63 and weighing around 59.5 kg, Hamadouche has been wearing a police uniform for 13 years and since 2014 he has been in the security and intervention group in the most problematic neighborhoods of the French capital.
difficult childhood
Originally from the region of dull, Maïva She is a well-behaved girl and admits that, although she is a good student, “she has some behavioral problems.” Raised by a single mother with four sisters and a brother, she first tried to channel her energy on the soccer fields: “I wasn’t very good, I had trouble understanding a sport played as a team .” At 14, he passed a boxing club and wondered, “Why not?” There he met his first coach, Fabrice Cavard, who becomes a ‘surrogate father’. He said that when he was young “I lacked limits, points of reference. I was taught through boxing.” He left home at 17 after high school, he wanted to study Law, but the price of tuition and the hours he spent studying without being able to work, he changed his gown for action and adrenaline at the station of the police in Rouen in 2009.
In the most conflicted neighborhoods
After two years at the police station in Asnieres-sur-Seinejoin the group of ‘Security and Intervention‘ from Paris. “We face insecurity and crime every day, in the rough neighborhoods of Paris XVIII, XIX, XX. It’s not easy”. He acknowledges that “for now, boxing is a priority, although when I’m on duty, I don’t think about the risk of getting injured and not being able to fight. I do what I have to do and my teammates know if how about me”.
Offensive, aggressive and frontal style
The athlete benefits from days of availability for his physical preparation. Usually his shift starts at 2:30 pm and ends at 10:30 pm and he can devote the morning from 9 to 12 to boxing, seven days a week. Professional since 2013, his meteoric rise reflects his style in the ring: offensive, aggressive and frontal. Asked about her pugilistic role models, she likes Manny Pacquiao, Oscar Valdez, Alfonso Gomez…and his pro card includes 22 wins out of 24 with 18 by KO and only two losses. Runner-up in Europe in 2019, the silver allowed him to enter the JJ. YES. Tokyo 2020 but fell in the round of 16 to the bronze medalist. Her ultimate goal, to be in Paris 2024. She was also awarded the Bronze Medal for Courage and Dedication of the prefecture of Paris in 2018, by saving the life of a Mauritanian immigrant, injured by a driver, by applying a tourniquet.
‘the poison’
The nickname came to her because “a lot of opponents don’t want to fight me because they say I’m ‘poison’ in the ring” and asked about her female role models, she admits she doesn’t have any female boxers to look up to “because there are so many. the same level” (sic). In fact, in the absence of strong enough female boxers, Hamadouche only used to men. Training relentlessly, she commented “My ambition is to take women’s boxing to the top”. She is also in charge of boxing classes in shelters for battered women in a project to accompany the National Police.
Elite police athletes
The National Sports Agency of France and the Ministry of Interior They signed an agreement for hiring high-level athletes to act as ‘ambassadors’ participating in communication activities and thus strengthen the police-population relationship between the youngest. The idea is that some of them join in National Police when I quit sports Maïva of the hostess.
Source: La Verdad

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