«Even Tyson said that he went to the ring with fear. There is always fear. The thing is how you deal with it, whether you stand back and let it defeat you or whether you take it as an impulse to face something new. My body and my head react like this, I’m going to do it because I can. Let’s do it and jump into the pool. “You have to do it,” he says. Jennifer Miranda. The Spanish boxer, who this Sunday defends her interim WBA world title against Panamanian boxer Teresa Almengor at the Las Vegas Theater in Madrid, she is one of those who always jumps into the pool.
He has been doing it since the beginning, since he signed up for a Spanish amateur championship because it gave him points to continue studying. «I wanted to study and to enter the University with a sufficient grade, because I did that by entering as a high-performance athlete. It was my goal, without knowing that I was going to like it so much and that I was going to stand out so much so soon,” he says. «I didn’t know I was going to like it so much. Later I got hooked on this sport,” he adds. He was 23 years old at the time, it was his first fight and he won. “I didn’t even know the rules,” he says. But that didn’t stop her.
«This is too difficult to start so late. It was clear to me that I had to train one hundred percent so that physically I could at least get there, because technically it is impossible to learn so quickly. That was my goal and I trained at 200 percent for years and years and years And there I was winning some fights for physicality, for many other things that depended on me and little by little I was picking up the technique. And learning more,” he explains. «Always with the time factor behind me and without stopping for 15 years, with that pressure always to say: ‘I need to do more than others if I want to be better than them.’ And it has worked for me. What I have proven is that if you put your mind to it and put in the effort and work at it, it works and you improve little by little.
So much so that she is now interim world champion and His goal is to fight later against Amanda Serrano, the world champion in the category. For this he has been working tirelessly for two years. «I don’t stop anymore. I have been training for two fights without stopping. And, since my goal, my dream, is to be world champion, to beat Amanda Serrano, it’s like I have a lot of work. If you have a very big goal, the work and training has to be brutal. That is my way of thinking, of working for 15 years, always improve, improve, improve and compare myself with the best» says Jennifer, who talks as fast as she hits.
It was that quickness of hands that earned him the nickname “Storm”, but not everything has been easy. Two years ago he was close to retiring. But Onlyfans sponsorship and the opportunity to film a television show in the United States crossed their path. “It was a contest, a kind of new reality show in which you faced people in a single ’round’ and economically it was a very, very important contribution,” he acknowledges. It was then that he was able to truly dedicate himself to boxing.
Until then he had had to combine it with various jobs and his body suffered from it. «Now I can dedicate myself fully to training. Train and rest. That has been a vital step so that I do not leave himbecause I was already injuring myself a lot and injuries stop you because after working 10 hours, training at 6:00 in the morning and training at 9:00 at night, there comes a time when your body breaks down. And it usually broke when I was most stressed, which was right before fighting.
Jennifer, who is 38 years oldis now enjoying its best moment. He just misses a little time, “going back five years to enjoy this moment” that he hopes to extend.
The opportunity of La Casa de Papel
Boxing has marked the life of Jennifer Miranda, but life has given her time to do many more things. To obtain a degree in Physical Education teaching before graduating in Physical Education, to do a master’s degree in Business Management and another in Coaching, because he has always thought that everything is in the head – “99 percent of what happens in boxing.” “, says -. Now it has focused on nutrition and Artificial Intelligence. “I really like to learn,” he says. But nothing has given him as much media visibility as his appearance in the fifth season of “La Casa de Papel”, for which he had to muscle up a lot. “Boxing helped me with acting techniques and acting made me more confident in the ring,” she says.
