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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Chevelle Hallback doesn’t have time for irritation.
The 39-year-old Floridian pays bills with a state job, spends spare hours as a student and fills in sleepless gaps with still-dogged pursuit of a goal to be the first woman featured in a bout on HBO.
So when it comes to big-talking prospective foes, she cuts right to the chase.
And in the case of returning female icon Christy Martin, the chase is officially on.
“The only way it doesn’t happen is if she doesn’t want to fight,” Hallback said. “I’m going to keep talking and keep making noise and keep showing up until they decide, ‘OK, the people simply have to see it.’”
For as long as it lasts, her hounding will be anything but friendly.
The venom is out of character for the normally engaging Hallback, who insists her antipathy for Martin, 42, stems from an altercation between the two at a recent amateur show in Orlando.
She said the incident began when, upon arriving for the card with one of his other fighters, Hallback’s trainer Sherman Henson was quickly accosted by Martin and told to tell Hallback to “keep her ****ing mouth shut” when it came to issuing challenges to her fellow Florida resident.
Martin had recently made appearances on both news and sports pages, announcing an in-ring comeback after she escaped death following a shooting and stabbing allegedly inflicted by her husband at their Apopka, Fla. home when she reportedly disclosed a lesbian affair and planned to end the marriage. [Click Here To Read More]
The 39-year-old Floridian pays bills with a state job, spends spare hours as a student and fills in sleepless gaps with still-dogged pursuit of a goal to be the first woman featured in a bout on HBO.
So when it comes to big-talking prospective foes, she cuts right to the chase.
And in the case of returning female icon Christy Martin, the chase is officially on.
“The only way it doesn’t happen is if she doesn’t want to fight,” Hallback said. “I’m going to keep talking and keep making noise and keep showing up until they decide, ‘OK, the people simply have to see it.’”
For as long as it lasts, her hounding will be anything but friendly.
The venom is out of character for the normally engaging Hallback, who insists her antipathy for Martin, 42, stems from an altercation between the two at a recent amateur show in Orlando.
She said the incident began when, upon arriving for the card with one of his other fighters, Hallback’s trainer Sherman Henson was quickly accosted by Martin and told to tell Hallback to “keep her ****ing mouth shut” when it came to issuing challenges to her fellow Florida resident.
Martin had recently made appearances on both news and sports pages, announcing an in-ring comeback after she escaped death following a shooting and stabbing allegedly inflicted by her husband at their Apopka, Fla. home when she reportedly disclosed a lesbian affair and planned to end the marriage. [Click Here To Read More]
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