Jackie Kallen

Jackie Kallen ( born 1952 in Detroit ) is one of the first and most successful female boxing manager in sports history. Hence it its nickname: "The First Lady of Boxing". The life of the American woman was filmed in the Ropes.

Life

She began her career in the 1970s as a journalist in show business. They interviewed, among others, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley. In an interview with the boxer Thomas Hearns, she discovered her passion for sports and was a sports reporter.

It began with Hearns to work as a publicist, but also learned this exclusion from the then still dominated by men boxing world, women's boxing, there was practically no.

However, Kallen successfully entered as Boxmanagerin of James Toney, Bronco McKart and other boxers. Toney in 1991 her first world champion when he won the title of WBA middleweight fight. McKart was also world champion in 1994, after the version of the WBO.

As a woman in the male-dominated boxes she was always in the media spotlight, she could use skillfully.

In Kallen in the late 1990s both heart disease and cancer were detected. After three surgeries she is now back in good health. Today Kallen lives in Los Angeles as a manager of McKart and other boxers.