From street fighter to Olympic boxer
One of the top boxers to watch at this summer's Olympic games in Rio is young American star, Claressa Shields. She was just 17 when she won gold as a middleweight in the London Olympics in 2012. It was a long journey from street fighting in Flint in Michigan to the podium - and her story was turned into a film called, T-Rex, which is her professional nickname. She told Outlook's Jo Fidgen how she came by it.
(This interview was first broadcast in September 2015)
Picture: Claressa Shields
Credit: T-Rex documentary
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