Tough talk from a badass 44-year-old Japanese mom:
"I wanted to show my children that if you give up, then you're washed up!"
Kazumi Izaki has been recently named Japan's oldest professional boxer. She was officially certified despite the fact that she is 12 years older than that country's boxing federation normally allows. She made it
The mother of two daughters, 21 and 14, and former aerobics instructor laced up a pair of boxing gloves for the first time back in 2001. She replaces a 46-year-old Japanese man as the country's oldest pro boxer after he declined to renew his license. I guess he's washed up.
PhotoS: (Not Izaki) tribuneindia.com; AFP/Getty Image via Yahoo.com
