Friday 24 April 2015 00:31, UK
Kellie Maloney, former manager of ex-world champion Lennox Lewis, has returned to boxing following a gap of almost two years.
Now in her early 60s, Maloney is keen to resurrect her career in promoting fights.
As Frank Maloney he guided Lewis to world heavyweight titles during the 1990s, while also helping Paul Ingle and Scott Harrison to reach the pinnacle of the sport at their respective weights.
She called time on a 30-year career in October 2013, handing back licences to the British Boxing Board of Control after growing disillusioned with the sport.
But now Maloney has taken on 23-year-old Tony Jones from Telford in Shropshire.
She is also working with Gary Cornish, 28, from Inverness, and his manager Tommy Gilmour on the boxer's next fight on May 23.
'Manchester United'
She went public last August with the news that following surgery she was now a woman and looking ahead to the next phase in her career and she told a press conference in London on Thursday: "If I put it in football terms, I've been the manager of Manchester United and now I'm going to start managing Nuneaton Borough.
“I've got to start at the bottom again and there's no getting away from that. The opportunity and personal challenge for me is very big."
When asked how she would feel if it was suggested that changing gender was a marketing ploy in a bid to re-establish herself as a boxing promoter, she added: "People who think that, should go through what I've been through.
“They are welcome to try it and let them walk in my shoes and see how hard it is. If it was a marketing ploy I should be locked up in a lunatic asylum."
