Aroundtown Magazine January/February 2024 edition
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on their books.<br />
When they opened a football<br />
division, Lynsey became personal<br />
assistant to the football director.<br />
Over time, she worked her way<br />
up through events management, with<br />
a primary focus on boxing. Lynsey<br />
was responsible for booking flights<br />
and hotels, organising medicals<br />
and eye tests, sorting sponsorship<br />
and commercial deals, getting the<br />
kits and ring canvas printed with<br />
the right logos in the right place,<br />
and organising pre-fight press<br />
conferences.<br />
Often the only woman in a very<br />
male dominated sport, Lynsey says<br />
she did more work than the men but<br />
her input was usually disregarded.<br />
representing IBF champion Ricky<br />
Hatton. Their jaws fell through the<br />
floor. After that they all wanted to<br />
know me.”<br />
After a short spell in football<br />
working in youth development at<br />
Rotherham United FC, Lynsey joined<br />
the country’s boxing governing<br />
body, England Boxing, as national<br />
competitions and events manager.<br />
In 2018, she organised the first<br />
ever Women’s Winter Box Cup,<br />
an all-female event which saw<br />
160 boxers from 11 countries take<br />
part in the competition that was<br />
broadcast worldwide. The event<br />
is now a regular fixture on the<br />
boxing calendar.<br />
After four years with England<br />
“<br />
We had to introduce ourselves and I said I was<br />
Lynsey Lockey representing IBF champion Ricky<br />
Hatton. Their jaws fell through the floor. After that<br />
they all wanted to know me.<br />
”<br />
“I remember this one time we<br />
were in Vegas with Ricky Hatton<br />
when he did his series of fights in<br />
2007 against people like Mayweather<br />
and Castillo. Ricky had a rules<br />
meeting at Caeser’s Palace and I<br />
was asked to go with him. We went<br />
to this huge boardroom with the<br />
biggest table I’d ever seen. It was<br />
full of old, white men and there was<br />
me, a mixed-race woman in her<br />
mid-20s. They thought I was bringing<br />
them coffee.<br />
“We had to introduce ourselves<br />
and I said I was Lynsey Lockey<br />
Boxing, Lynsey left last <strong>January</strong><br />
to set up her own business, Steel<br />
Sports Management, and pursue<br />
her passion of fighting for equality<br />
in boxing.<br />
The sport has changed slightly<br />
in recent years, fuelled by the<br />
emergence of professional women<br />
boxers. It wasn’t until London<br />
2012 that women’s boxing was<br />
included in the Olympics. But there<br />
still aren’t enough women in the<br />
sport generally.<br />
In October, she launched Women<br />
in Boxing to create a better pathway<br />
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