2023-05-20 04:01:22
“Fuck, how hard is this.” Miriam Gutiérrez put on the Spanish champion belt super welterweight and then grabbed the microphone to say goodbye. “It’s just a goodbye“, she said before thanking everyone who has accompanied her on this trip. A farewell. Nothing more and nothing less than that, the last fight at the age of 40 and the women’s department in the Torrejón City Council that awaits her now full time.
Miriam Gutiérrez has become a myth in the ring and now he abandons it so that his name, now far from the canvas, can grow up legend. She has achieved almost everything in the world of boxing, standing out among her titles, those of European champion and the world lightweight. For his final match he chose a versatile and tall fighter. Patricia Martin She is a boxer from the Canary Islands, stout, big, confident, who never lost her smile before her opponent. Not even when they treated her in the corner for the bruises left by the champion’s gloves.
The fight began lazily, with scores. Measures had to be taken. The two boxers demonstrated their competence, but Miriam Gutiérrez had the endorsement of nothing less than experience, that in the ring is one more trick, almost as much as jumping with one more hand. Miriam showed why she is great and why she has reached the highest podiums. Before an audience delivered, she that she knew that she is witnessing a historic momentshowed that he was capable of dealing with solvency in the short and long distance, handle himself with ease against the ropes, escaping the most compromised stakes, and that the hands of his rival bite the void or remain in the air, scaring away flies .
It was the last dance for Miriam. The last blows from her, which they received the final prize of the judges’ cards. A majority decision in favor of the champion, who was always ahead in the scores and who never lost sight of what was at stake this evening: signing a successful match, the shot of a trajectory that most boxers would sign today. Only one of the judges saw a null fight, the two boxers tied at 76; the other two gave 77-75 in favor of Miriam.
A deserved, indisputable farewell, that not even his rival, Patricia, a brave fighter, who showed character, dared to argue at no time. The two hugged after the final chime. They looked smiling, happy, like two traveling companions. After that moment of sportsmanship came the moment of tears, the most complicated, that of confession, giving into words what until then had remained silent, inside. And there was a special moment there. It was Miriam’s emotion that she confessed that this was the first time his daughter saw one of his matches. and it was the last. Could there be something more symbolic? “It’s funny, it’s my last fight and it’s the first time he’s been able to come see me,” she confessed out loud, through tears. It was the moment to thank his trainer, jero garciato his coach in Torrejón, Jose Caro, to his colleagues in the council and to his mayor. The goodbye of a queen and an athlete, who like all the greats are great because of what they have been in sport and outside of sport. Miriam Gutiérrez, the queen, has finished her career, but It will be difficult for anyone who has seen it to forget it. As she herself exclaimed: “Olé”.
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