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Published : 17-08-2022 - Duration : 01:22 - View : 12
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RAMLA ALI is the history-making boxer whose story began after fleeing war-torn Somalia as a baby.
Ali is an Olympian, model, activist and author, who is also set to become the first women fighter to compete in Saudi Arabia on the Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk undercard.
But the 32-year-old's journey started before she was even a year old when her family made the brave call to flee Somalia for the UK.
Her elder brother had been killed by a bomb, aged just 12, during the civil war in the early 1990s.
And Ali's family escaped the capital Mogadishu following a nine-day boat journey to Kenya.
Some died of starvation on the way although Ali's family eventually found refuge in London.
They settled in Whitechapel, East London, but in her teens Ali was bullied for being overweight.
She took it upon herself to join a boxercise class at a local gym.
But she
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