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Amber Wright is known for her gentle demeanour, but you wouldn’t want to go up against her in a fight.
"When she gets in the ring, she just turns into an animal," her coach Nathan Swadling says.
Boxing also helps the 23-year-old palawa woman escape to a different place.
“That place is probably the closest thing where I feel like me, like my true self," she tells SBS News.
“I think that's why I love it so much and I revolve my whole life around it.”