Breaking Stereotypes: My Journey into Boxing at 18

So if you want to get involved in boxing, it’s very simple. Hello everybody. My name is Delicious Orie and I’m a Team GB boxer. So I started boxing quite late actually. I started boxing at 18 years old. I was initially inspired by a fellow Olympian and gold medallist, Anthony Joshua, who won gold in 2012, uh, London Olympics. And I thought, that looks so cool, I wanna give it a go. So here I am. So if you wanna get involved in boxing, it’s very simple. Get into an amateur boxing club. There’s so many spread out across England. It’s so easy to do. Just get in there, a coach will look after you. There’s another thing of this, this uh, stigma of boxing. You gotta start early in order to be this, you know, great athlete. You don’t. I start boxing at 18. I’m doing alright. Ha ha ha. So um, it’s never too late. Go in there, go and give it a go and uh, I’m sure you will surprise yourself in a positive way. In a positive way.