Stacey Copeland speaks to John Dennen about a career that was very far from ordinary
WHEN Stacey Copeland started boxing she couldn’t fight. “As a little kid when I was first into boxing and just absolutely loved it and lived it and breathed it. And then I found out obviously it wasn’t legal,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
Her father Eddie was a boxer, her grandfather ran the gym and she’d been in there since she was seven years old. Yet it wasn’t till she was 29 that she actually got to have her first competitive bout.