Wildheart, who has not fought in Sweden since 2018, expects Koleva to be a “lively” opponent but wants competitive contests as she looks to climb back up the rankings.<\/p>\n
And she has been helped in her comeback by new trainer, John Ryder of Matchroom Boxing.<\/p>\n
“We decided, now I’m on my second career, to find a new trainer closer to home and John has done a lot for me, he’s trained me really well,” Wildheart added.<\/p>\n
“He has so much knowledge he can share with me. I’m super excited just to have him in the corner.”<\/p>\n
Wildheart was out driving in her car with her week-old son in the back when the sudden realisation came to her that she could reach a new level in the ring.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t reached my top yet,” she added. “I don’t know if it’s the pregnancy itself or sitting on the side and watching boxing for a while, made me think ‘I can do this, I can be much, much better’.<\/p>\n
“It’s a mental thing that has come to me, the real fire has appeared to me, and everyone around me I’m training with, my friends and family, I can see the change in them really believing it (in me). Maybe it’s just happiness – but that is strong.”<\/p>\n
Wildheart believes another world title opportunity is unlikely before the end of next year or the early part of 2027.<\/p>\n
She added: “I’m going to keep winning but I’m working up from the bottom again because I’ve been out for a while. We’ll have to see what we can do. I’ve got loads of time, I’m only 32, so there’s no stress.” <\/p>\n
Lucy Wildheart was speaking to BBC Essex’s Ian Puckey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildheart, who has not fought in Sweden since 2018, expects Koleva to be a “lively” opponent but wants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-270406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270406","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=270406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}