{"id":101962,"date":"2025-08-29T23:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101962\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T23:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:49:10","slug":"sacha-hickey-meet-the-amateur-boxer-with-probably-the-best-record-in-international-boxing-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/101962\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacha Hickey – meet the amateur boxer with ‘probably’ the best record in international boxing | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacha Hickey has probably the best record in amateur boxing. She has only lost once in her whole life.<\/p>\n

The GB boxer has been a stellar junior and youth international and is now carrying that form into elite competition.<\/p>\n

This year alone she has won gold medals at significant competitions, the Strandja tournament in Bulgaria and the World Boxing Cup in Brazil, and beaten two Olympians in the process.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old has not lost a bout since 2018. That kind of winning run is almost unheard of in amateur boxing, especially for someone who has been an international from age group to elite level.<\/p>\n

She could have the best record in international amateur boxing.<\/p>\n

“Probably is to be fair,” Hickey told Sky Sports. “You can’t pick and choose who you box at elite level.”<\/p>\n

\"Sacha<\/p>\n

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\n Hickey beat Italian Olympian Angela Carini at the Strandja tournament<\/p>\n

She added: “I’ve probably only ever won a 3-2 [split decision] four times maybe, all the others have been unanimous.”<\/p>\n

Hickey is hoping to extend that seven-year winning run at the World Championships, which begin in Liverpool on September 4.<\/p>\n

“I think I’ll top the podium, I think I’ll be the one to do it,” Hickey said. “All it is really is hard work and self-belief, they’re probably the main two things<\/p>\n

“It’s hard, the training, but when you’re in there it comes easy.”<\/p>\n

Hickey is not only gunning for a first World Championship medal, she is a real prospect for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

It all began for her by playing the boxing game on the Nintendo Wii when she was a child. Her brothers wanted to go to a real boxing club and she followed them to Fisher ABC in Bermondsey.<\/p>\n

\"Hickey<\/p>\n

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\n Hickey has been training for the Worlds at the GB gym in Sheffield (Photos: GB Boxing)<\/p>\n

“I was the only girl there,” she recalled. “It was intimidating a bit, but it was like no one was really bothered. I feel like Fisher is one of those places where you can be anyone. No one’s really bothered and everyone gets along.<\/p>\n

“You can be anyone, do anything really, you can just come along and train. Down Fisher it was like a family.”<\/p>\n

There she was trained by legendary coach Steve Hiser. “Because I was his first girl fighter, I think it was quite special for him, to have me and make me into a champion,” she said.<\/p>\n

“He was quite old school.”<\/p>\n

It prepared her for the position she is in now. “Even since I was a schoolgirl, if I went sparring they would stick me in with the seniors, or at least the youths they put me in with. I’ve always really gone above my level,” Hickey added.<\/p>\n

“Down at Fisher I’d always spar the boys, so I never really had it my own way, I always got pushed in the gym. So when it came to the fighting, it came easy.”<\/p>\n

She added: “It’s actually crazy that we were just playing the Nintendo Wii one day and then the next thing you know you’re training to hopefully go to the Olympic Games.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacha Hickey has probably the best record in amateur boxing. She has only lost once in her whole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-101962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}