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traditionally Tuesday is Boxing night in san Jose. And at 12 noon the participants go through the way in ritual. The scene is not unlike an old john Garfield movie with the aged former boxers, the managers, trainers and the hangers on, But today something new has been

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added. Diane Syverson tips the scales at £148 weighing in for her first professional fight. This is the first time in northern California, a woman has fought professionally. Diane will go four rounds and this former roller derby star says she's in top shape. And how does she

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feel about violence among the fair sex? Well, I'm worried about myself and that's my first thought. Now I don't try not to really actually worry about it, although I know I'm taking chances and I know that it's something I've accepted that it might happen, but and

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maybe if I ever really hurt somebody in the ring, maybe maybe I'd have a lot of bad feelings, maybe I wouldn't continue my career. Those are things that I'm just gonna have to find out. Here is the last and probably the most important question. What's your

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best punch? I'll tell you what you come tonight and you'll find out. Diane's opponent is no pushover of full blooded Sioux indian descendant from Chief Sitting Bull. Princess Red Star is a veteran of three professional fights. She's been fighting her brothers for years, she says, so

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fighting comes naturally her best punch a right cross. All right, well, it's just, you know, it's my own feelings what I wanna do. I've always wanted to box, you know, But, you know, I said it wasn't legalized yet, you know, so we just me and my

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other sisters, we just kept training.