According to Womenboxing.com, Angel McKenzie is also a female Bodybuilder – in September 2006 being the Runner Up in the U.K. B.F.F. North East Championship Fitness Division.

Her adopted father, former British and European boxing champion Clinton McKenzie, is quoted as having said:

“Angel wants a sex change. She wants to become a man and to fight men in the ring. She’s obsessed with boxing and will do absolutely anything to live her dream. She is really convinced that she could become a world champion as a male boxer.

When she told me, I was petrified. I told her she was mad and that I wanted nothing to do with it. She’s very stubborn though.”

Apparently the boxer, 36 year old Russian born Angel McKenzie has completed the initial stages of hormone therapy. She recently appeared on the reality show ‘Big Brother’ and was seen shaving her face on the show.

Angel’s career as a female boxer so far isn’t exactly award winning, she has won only 2 of her 17 professional fights; so I am not exactly sure how a switch to fighting men will help?

Click through to watch a couple of videos of Angel

Jade Johnson records personal best and Olympic qualifying distance at European Cup

By Tom Knight [daily telegraph]
Last Updated: 10:54pm BST 23/06/2008

If there was a single athlete whose return to form summed up the much-welcomed upturn in Britain’s fortunes at the European Cup in Annecy, it was Jade Johnson, the long jumper now revelling in her nickname of “the comeback kid”.

After almost two years in the athletics wilderness, Johnson leapt back into contention with a personal best and Olympic qualifying distance of 6.81metres. It was only good enough for second in the competition but worth so much more for her Olympic prospects.

After a series of injuries, Johnson, a European and Commonwealth silver medallist in 2002, was dumped from the sport’s Lottery-funded world class performance programme at the end of last year.