Long before women’s boxing was brought to the Olympic schedule, Mary Spencer, 25-years-old, dreamed of Gold. She is reigning world boxing champion at 66 kilograms (145lbs).
“Boxing took a big step forward for three divisions for women and a huge step back for the rest,” Mary said.
There will only be three categories for women’s boxing at the 2012 Olympics, 75, 60 and 51 kg, and the women who do not fall in them will either have to sit out of the trials or lose/gain weight to meet qualifications. This poses several problems with training and fighting. They will not be used to that fight class (the tactics for each class vary) and will not have the experience. As it is Mary will have to move up to the 75kg class. 
“It was a perfectly simple decision to go up, no way I’d ever make 60. At 75, girls are more my size there. I was bigger than the girls at 66,” Mary told press.
“Mary’s a good boxer because of her hard work and dedication. She works out three to four hours a day, even when there’s no coach” says her coach, Charlie Stewart, a former top Canadian light-heavyweight. “Almost since they started boxing for women they’ve been talking about that. Now she’s a bigger boxer at 75 kilos, but at the same time, she’ll be boxing women who came down from 180 pounds [81 kg]. She had the height and size advantage before, now she doesn’t have the experience with women who are big and coming down in size.”
Experience or not, she has the heart and two years before show time.