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Article: Laila Ali Knocks Jacqui Frazier-Lyde's Boxing Debut; Foreman's Daughter, Freeda, Announces She'll Box.(Brief Article)
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- February 28, 2000
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Muhammad Ali's daughter, boxer Laila Ali, says she was not impressed by Joe Frazier's daughter's recent boxing debut.
"It was pitiful," Laila told the New York Post about the recent match between Frazier's daughter, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, and Alaskan fighter Tella Reese.
"She's getting all this attention and people are watching thinking that's what women's boxing is about," Laila said of Frazier-Lyde's recent victory in the ring in the New York Post story.
"She's never worked hard in the gym. She didn't put in the time. She's doing all this to get to (fight) me, and I'm not even thinking about her," Laila said.
Women in boxing is ...