{"id":16025,"date":"2024-04-12T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/rhiannon-dixon-aims-to-cap-dream-rise-with-wbo-lightweight-title-win\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:58:13","slug":"rhiannon-dixon-aims-to-cap-dream-rise-with-wbo-lightweight-title-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/rhiannon-dixon-aims-to-cap-dream-rise-with-wbo-lightweight-title-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhiannon Dixon aims to cap ‘dream’ rise with WBO lightweight title win"},"content":{"rendered":"


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While Dixon may be short on big-fight experience, her trainer Anthony Crolla is not.<\/p>\n

The former world champion<\/a> agreed to coach Dixon for a session following his retirement in 2019, after her manager called him while he was on holiday in Portugal – and the pair have worked together since.<\/p>\n

If Dixon beats Carabajal, she will become the first world champion trained by Crolla from his Fox ABC gym.<\/p>\n

It is not only their backgrounds and experience in which fighter and trainer are very different, but their outlooks on training – and Dixon believes that is one of the reasons why the partnership works.<\/p>\n

“I’m very self-critical, I will walk out and say ‘that’s the worst sparring of my life’,” she says. <\/p>\n

“Ant is like ‘what are you on about’, and I point out this, this and this. <\/p>\n

“He’ll then say ‘you did all this, everything I asked you to’, but I’ll say ‘I’m pathetic’ and have to hang my head in shame.”<\/p>\n

Crolla admits he may give Dixon “kittens” due to his laid-back attitude, compared to her “military” approach, but that contrast has helped elevate her as a fighter – while he has improved as a coach having learned from Joe Gallagher, the man who led him to a world title.<\/p>\n

“Joe was very meticulous,” he says. “I’ll be honest, I will never be as meticulous as Joe, but I do my best to study opponents.<\/p>\n

“My team here will watch fights then talk tactics over with Rhiannon. As a coach it is great to get recognition but I am grateful for the team around me.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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