6/13/2023 0 Comments Hammerfight![]() ![]() He’s nervous, his round pale face already sweating as he begins to twirl gauze into small bundles to protect Nelson’s knuckles under her gloves. Tonight, that task falls to Nelson’s assistant coach, Pete Woodson, who has never wrapped her hands before. ![]() But she knows it begins when her hands get wrapped - a process that, she told me, feels like putting on a different body. Nelson doesn’t totally understand how this change occurs. Then she enters the ring and something terrifying emerges, something that won’t let her stop punching until she has annihilated the person in the opposite corner. She’s a hugger, a baby nuzzler, a bestower of silly nicknames. Outside the ring, Nelson is, in the words of her friend and fellow boxer Tyrieshia Douglas, “a nice churchy lady.” She spends half an hour each day reading and discussing Bible verses with her longtime boyfriend.
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