Boxing: she no longer fights for no reason

“I no longer want to fight outside the ring and the hall. I spend too much energy on it. "Fights for a yes or a no, Fanny Galle no longer wants to hear about it. Finally coming out of an eventful childhood, the 26-year-old boxer licensed at the Boxing Club of Garges (Val d'Oise) has found something to channel her extrovert temperament. French champion (super-light) for the first time last February, the Guadeloupe now wants to validate her professional status.

Fanny Galle readily admits having never liked school. In primary school, at the Abymes, she did not hesitate to bicker with her little comrades: “I fought, but it was not to defend myself. I was rather in the attack, I already had this dominating side ... ”Daughter of a technical agent and a house painter, third in a family of five children, she then stood out in college , from which it is regularly returned. She finds a moment of refuge at the neighborhood boxing club. This moment lasts a year, until he is 13 years old.

Because her parents, who endure less and less conflicts with her three brothers and her sister, sent her to a home. For five years, she will only see them on weekends. In contact with other young girls in difficulty, the crimping of chignon does not stop, especially since little Fanny has stopped boxing: “Instead, I did a huge psychological job on everyday life. It helped me a lot. »Major, she finds hers. Calm, calm, and with a strong desire to resume boxing.

This is good: Olivier Bousardo, his manager at the time, never let go. Under his leadership, Fanny progresses quickly and well, with a dozen fights and no defeats in the first year. At the age of 19, she gave up her professional baccalaureate "Building finishing" (like her father, who died in 2015), the year of her first French championship in metropolitan France. Without success, but it is only a postponement. In 2018, Manu Dos Santos, who had already noticed her, brought her to his club at the foot of the bars.

“When I got it back, nobody except me thought that Fanny could be at the top level, smiles the coach of BC Garges, who has four champion boxers from France and six on the way to going pro. They found him an apartment 300 meters from the hall. As she is easily influenced, it is better for her. We put her in a cocoon which makes her have to train. "

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With her national title, Fanny Galle can now go professional. It only takes one fight to validate his new status. Her future is now between her gloves: “Since I was little, I say that one day I will be world champion. "