{"id":840198,"date":"2026-08-01T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840198\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:41:14","slug":"mary-koms-story-inspired-pakistans-first-female-cwg-boxing-medallist-fatima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840198\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Kom&#8217;s story inspired Pakistan&#8217;s first female CWG boxing medallist Fatima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She secretly pursued boxing in her early years, balancing training with work in the fields before going on to win six world championship titles, an Olympic bronze medal, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games golds, and five Asian Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 Bollywood biopic based on Mary Kom&#8217;s life left a lasting impression on a then 10-year-old Fatima.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I used to watch the film made on her life. When I started boxing I used to watch that movie and train. I have a lot of respect for her and inshallah one day I will become like her. I hope I can meet her,&#8221; Fatima said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She secretly pursued boxing in her early years, balancing training with work in the fields before going on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,290595,292621,170940,9380,82],"class_list":["post-840198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cwg-2026","tag-fathima","tag-mary-kom","tag-pakistan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}