Zuffa Boxing Signs Kayla Allen as First Female Signer — SkimNews
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- Kayla Allen began boxing at 18 during the pandemic lockdown, teaching herself in her back garden from YouTube videos and studying Mayweather, Mike Tyson and AJ before entering a local gym.
- Kayla Allen won the Golden Girl, a large international amateur tournament in Sweden, after competing in a couple of white-collar fights.
- Kayla Allen joined the England team within six months and the GB squad within eight months, crediting her coaches and both national systems.
- Zuffa Boxing signed Allen as its first woman, marking her breakthrough move into professional boxing.
- Kayla Allen is scheduled for her second professional fight on November 7 on Sky Sports’ Zuffa Boxing 12 card, headlined by Chris Billam-Smith against Cheavon Clarke.
- Kayla Allen said every opponent is “getting dealt with the same” and promised “explosive” knockouts, saying she wants to create her own name for female boxing.
Why it matters: For Zuffa Boxing, Allen supplies its first female signing ahead of her second professional bout on November 7, bringing a prospect with a Golden Girl win and GB pedigree. Allen says her example helps other women coming through, making her path from garden tutorials to the national team evidence that a late start need not end at the local gym.
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