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Tori Nelson: Fighting For Her Future
About this film
A documentary about Tori Nelson, a WBC and WIBA World Middleweight boxing champion, who struggles with raising two teenage children on three minimum paying jobs while struggling to maintain her professional boxing career. With only her trainer, she has fought to become the #1 USA Middleweight title holder and nine-time world boxing champion with no financial backing. Tori Nelson and her manager hope to gain sponsorship so she can continue her career and help her children with a better life. Tori Nelson, gives hope to single mothers. Her hard work, dedication and motto --"suck it up" -- seem to help her persevere in balancing her dream career in boxing as well as taking care of her two teenage children. Tori Nelson first started boxing at the age of 29, but in her pursuit for the championship Nelson's journey is not so easy. Now 40, Nelson is a single mother working three jobs; she works as a school bus driver, cafeteria worker and an IHOP waitress, and maintains all three while taking care of her children. "It's hard," says Nelson, "Especially doing it by myself because I don't get enough time to raise my own kids, but I just suck it up... because I know I got two mouths I got to f…
Directors & creators
Jeffrey A. Riegel
Subjects
Tori Nelson; Nelson; GLJ Media Group; WBC; WBA; WIBA; Trinidad; box; boxer; boxing; fight; fighter; middleweight; female; woman; sports; jeffvlog; Jeffrey Riegel; Riegel
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