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\t\t\t<\/p>\nChloe Grech: \u201cI want to become a world champion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sometimes, the biggest fight for a fighter is to actually get fights. Chloe Grech has experienced that in recent times. A frustrating 2025 has given way to renewed hope for the new year. Those frustrations haven\u2019t given way to thoughts of walking away, only a firm resilience to reach the very pinnacle of her sport. <\/p>\n
The 30-year-old started her fighting life properly around nine years ago, the Sydney-born light-flyweight told FightPost. But it was very much a family affair. \u201cI started boxing seriously right before I turned 21, and that\u2019s when I had my first amateur fight. I\u2019ve always been around it from a young age. My dad is a boxing trainer, and my eldest brother is undefeated as a pro.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also have another brother, and he had a couple of fights. Then there\u2019s me, who\u2019s the youngest, and I decided to take it up, and I have never looked back. My dad never forced me to do it. I guess from watching from a young age, that\u2019s what made me want to get into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is a way of life that has fully consumed the Australian. \u201cNow boxing is my whole life, I can\u2019t imagine my life without it or any other way. It\u2019s just become a part of who I am. It has given me so much from the people I have met to the discipline and drive it has given me. Boxing gives you so much, and I\u2019m so glad I chose this path. It has given me the resilience and strength to overcome day-to-day obstacles and just change my whole mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOutside of boxing, I don\u2019t do too much besides spending time with my family and close friends, just going out to eat and enjoying life, I guess,\u201d Grech adds. \u201cEverything outside of boxing still somehow has to do with boxing, whether it\u2019s fight nights or watching some big fights on the weekend on TV.\u201d<\/p>\n
The amateur career was brief. Fourteen fights with ten victories, with one exhibition contest. It was a serious knee injury that limited her amatuer run to just those fourteen fights. \u201cAs for my amateur career, I didn\u2019t have that many fights. Not as many as I would have liked. I also had to take one year without competing since I did my ACL. I decided not to do the surgery and strengthen it up instead, and then it gave way on me during a spar, and that\u2019s when I had no choice but to get the surgery done. I was out for two and a half years. The recovery took me one year and a bit, then another to get back into my training and everything. That\u2019s when I decided to turn pro and just go for it after my return from my surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grech turned pro in 2023 with a win over Sarah Linton, but her professional career has so far only amassed five fights in total. \u201cMy pro career has definitely been a challenge,\u201d Grech relayed to me. \u201cHowever, I know this is what I\u2019m made for. It\u2019s been hard to get match-ups because of my weight. I\u2019m naturally a light-flyweight. But at the start of my pro career, I had two fights at a catch weight, and the girls were just a lot bigger than me. You definitely have to sacrifice at the beginning, and then eventually it will all pay off.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to stay as active as I can for 2026,\u201d Grech goes on to say. \u201cSince last year didn\u2019t go the best after my last fight with Mishelle Macatangay, which ended in a head clash then a rematch was set and then my opponent had an accident making weight and I didn\u2019t get to fight. So that was really disheartening to put all that work in and for it to end like that. So I have just been trying to get matched up since November trusting in God\u2019s timing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grech remains unbeated, and ambitious. At 30, she has time on her side. You sense 2026 is a pivotal year for her. After a stop-start beginning to her life as a professional fighter, activity will be key for her over the next twelve months or so. But the dream of reaching the very top remains. \u201cI want to become a world champion in my weight division and to get on a big promotion. That is the goal.\u201d <\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tPublished by FightPost: MMA & Boxing News\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n