BBC to show live women's boxing event

Women's competitive boxing will be shown live on the BBC for the first time next month, the corporation announced yesterday.

Viewers will be able to watch bouts from the GB Amateur Boxing Championships in Liverpool.

BBC Olympic sports editor Claire Stocks said: "We hope that sports fans will enjoy the chance to watch live amateur boxing on the BBC and get behind our Olympic hopefuls."

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Women's boxing was only recognised in this country after one of its most prominent names, Jane Couch, launched a sexual discrimination claim against the British Boxing Board of Control for the right to fight in the UK.

The board granted her a licence and she went on to win the first professional women's boxing bout in Britain in November 1998.

Couch, from Fleetwood in Lancashire, was made an MBE in 2007.