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Boxer battles poverty, misogyny to be Vietnam’s first world champion

HO CHI MINH CITY (AFP) – From her youth spent scraping a living on the streets, Nguyen Thi Thu Nhi has battled poverty and sexist prejudice to become Vietnam’s first boxing world champion. The 25-year-old scored an enormous upset over defending champion Etsuko Tada of Japan in October to claim the World Boxing Organization (WBO)
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