Australia's toughest woman and WBC Silver Female Super-Bantamweight Champion, Shannon O’Connell, lost her father in a motorcycle accident at the age of two and watched her mother die from drug addiction years later.
Shannon vowed to make a better life for herself and her children and not follow her mothers’ footsteps of turning to drugs. Instead, Shannon turned to boxing as a way to fight the demons of a little girl trying to survive a very rough childhood.
This is her story.
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