Catalina Cordova is just 13 years old and has earned several titles, ranging from the Junior Olympics to the Golden Gloves Championship.
“I worked really hard to get these,” she said.
She hopes to be an inspiration to other girls trying to get into the sport.
“It’s not that easy to be a girl in boxing, because a bunch of boys, like, when you’re sparring, think they’re better than you because you’re a girl,” she said. “They’ll be mean to you,” she said.
Still, she said she just rolls with the punches to show her talent in the ring, and it seems like that attitude is intimidating…