![]() ![]() She started posting videos of herself and her work holding the mitts during sessions and her views and followers skyrocketed. She’s been a boxing coach and trainer for more than 10 years now, but it was the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and social media that catapulted her profile. By 2015, she was managing her brother’s career and had fallen in love with the sport. Her brother invited her to join him at his training gym, where she started taking boxing classes, moving up to hitting the gym five days a week. “It was at that moment that I realized I needed to learn and understand the sport.” ![]() “I never realized how nerve racking, intense, and exciting the sport was until I went to his first fight,” she said in a 2018 essay about how boxing changed her life. It was the first time she watched her older brother, a mixed martial arts fighter, in a professional fight that inspired her to learn more about the sport. Ann Najjar is “The Mitt Queen,” known for her skills holding the mitts in the boxing ring for the athletes she trains. ![]()
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