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ULTRACHEM TKO GYM
MARIANNE ‘GOLDEN GIRL’ MARSTON
FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHT CLUB



For immediate release

London - 19th May 2010


Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston Launches Friday Night Fight Club For Women


Professional female boxer Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston, the protégé of legendary Heavyweight Champion of the World Smokin Joe Frazier, announced today the addition of FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHT CLUB, a full on boxing training class for Women, which will be held at the Ultrachem TKO Boxing Gym in Canning Town, London, each Friday evening at 6pm, to her already successful series of ‘Golden Girl’ Women’s Boxing Fitness classes.

Marston, who is part of Cruiserweight King Steve ‘USS’ Cunningham’s Philadelphia, based professional boxing team, originally created the ‘Golden Girl’ series of Women’s Boxing Fitness Classes in ‘09 at a gym in South London where she was training at the time. The concept of the classes came about following her return to London, after two years training in America, as she had noticed that the only type of Boxing fitness programmes being offered to women in London were of the aerobic ‘Boxercise’ type.

In April this year she expanded the series and launched new classes at various locations around London, firstly at The Boxing Clinic in Islington, North London then a couple of weeks later at The Tokei Gym at London Bridge and The Ultrachem TKO Gym in Canning Town, East London.

Friday Night Fight Club, unlike the current series of classes, is for those wishing to pursue competitive boxing. The coaching will be to full amateur and professional boxing standards. Each class will concentrate on a single element, such as footwork, ringcraft, defensive techniques etc. before undertaking a basic training circuit of shadow boxing, padwork, bagwork and ringcraft exercises.

Taking a little time off from her preparations by top British coach Derek Grainger at the Ultrachem TKO Gym for her upcoming fight with Lana Cooper, Marston explained why she decided to create Friday Night Fight Club, “It’s quite exciting, I wish I had something like this when I first became interested in boxing, as I found it almost impossible to find a gym in London that would offer me training or even take my ambition seriously so I had to go to America to train.

I always intended to offer advanced classes at some point as I know there is some real interest in them. Back last year two girls that came to my original classes wanted to progress further. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to add an advanced class at that gym so they tried to find a gym to train at. They really struggled but in the end did manage to find amateur coaches that were willing to train them.

Now I’m in the same situation with the new classes as there are a couple of the girls ready to progress. Luckily this time I am at a gym where, thanks to the wonderful Johnny Eames (owner of Ultrachem TKO Gym), I am able to have an advanced class as well as offer personal One-2-One Boxing coaching.

The basis of the Friday Night Boxing Club classes are pure boxing skills and drills, in fact the only difference between the classes and normal boxing training is that it is in a group and not One-2-One.

I will be covering every element, from footwork right through to full contact sparring. From time to time I will also have top coaches, such as former Team GB head coach Terry Edwards MBE, hosting technical seminars.

I really do believe that Friday Night Fight Club will produce some very exciting new female boxers, both for the amateur and professional ranks. Who knows, perhaps one of them could end up representing Great Britain at the 2016 Olympics, now wouldn’t that be something.”

Marianne ‘Golden Girl Marston’s Friday Night Fight Club is held at the Ultrachem TKO Boxing Gym, Gillian House, Stephenson Street, Canning Town, London E16 4SA every Friday evening at 6pm. The cost per session is £10.

The full schedule for ‘Golden Girl’ Women’s Boxing & Boxing Fitness Classes are:

The Boxing Clinic, 29 St Alban's Place, Islington, London N1 0NX, on Tuesday and Thursday evening at 6.30pm,

The Tokei Gym, 28 Magdalen Street, Southwark, London SE1 2EN on Monday and Wednesday evening at 6.00pm.

Ultrachem TKO Gym, Gillian House, Stephenson Street, Canning Town, London E16 4SA on Friday at 6.00pm (Friday Night Fight Club) and Saturday at 2.00pm (Boxing Fitness)

Marianne ‘Golden Girl’ Marston Versus Lana Cooper will be on the Steve Goodwin promoted event at York Hall on the 11th September 2010. Further news on this will be announced shortly.

For further information see www.womensboxingclasses.com


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NOTES FOR EDITORS

Whilst Boxing may be the sport Marianne is best known for today it is not the only sport she has excelled at. As a youngster Marianne competed both in swimming competitions, as part of the Norwich Penguins, and fencing at County level.

At the tender age of fourteen Marianne, who at the time was seeded sixth (foil), was selected to compete at Crystal Palace for a place in the British Olympic Fencing squad following her victory over the then current number one. Unfortunately Marianne missed this golden opportunity due to a family crisis.

Before the next Olympic trials beckoned Marianne decided that her sporting endeavours would have to take a back seat to academia. Marianne left her family home in Norwich and moved to the capital to study at King's College London. Her studies paid off with Marianne earning a much deserved B.Sc. (Hons).

Throughout her adulthood Marianne spent many hours per week at the gym keeping fit but it was to be a number of years before she returned to any form of competitive sport.

Her becoming a boxer was quite accidental, as was her studying nutrition. Following a long undiagnosed illness, which turned out to be coeliacs, Marianne returned to her local gym to bring herself back to the levels of fitness she had previously enjoyed. One day at the gym she noticed a poster offering boxing based fitness sessions. Marianne met with the personal trainer, Choleton Senior, advertising the sessions and signed up for the course.

Following the first few sessions Choleton stated that Marianne had what it takes to be a boxer and advised her to find a proper boxing gym. Marianne did indeed eventually find a boxing gym to train at, Gleason's London, but continued to work with Choleton on her conditioning and additional boxing coaching.

It was around this time that Marianne first started investigating nutrition, specifically to ensure that her diet, which had become restricted due to her being gluten intolerant, still provided all the elements required for her sporting activities.

A few months later, whilst in Philadelphia on business, Marianne accidentally met with Heavyweight Champion of the World Smokin' Joe Frazier who after discovering she was a boxer invited her to try out at his gym.

Joe was so impressed that he signed her up to his boxing team on the spot and advised her to consider relocating to Philadelphia to prepare for her professional debut.

Late in January 2008 Marianne decided to take Joe's advice and committed herself to spending six months in America so that Joe and his team could thoroughly prepare her. Unfortunately in March 2008 Smokin' Joe Frazier's Gym closed down.

Not being someone to give up on her dreams Marianne went for a trial with Percy (Buster) Custus at the James Shuler Memorial Gym in West Philadelphia. Initially she was taken under the wing of former Light Middleweight World Champion Robert 'Bam Bam' Hines but due to her struggling to understand Robert's instructions, because of his thick regional accent, she started the search for a new coach.

Marianne was due to meet with two time Heavyweight World Champion 'Terrible' Tim Witherspoon, with a view to him coaching her, when she was approached by Livvy Cunningham, the wife and manager of Cruiserweight World Champion Steve 'USS' Cunningham, to become part of Team 'USS' Cunningham.

Firmly now part of Team 'USS' Cunningham Marianne was introduced to Shar'ron Baker, who was to be her day to day coach, and 'Trainer of the Year' Nazeem Richardson, who had just become Steve's fight trainer.

Nazeem introduced Marianne to his 'Concrete Jungle' conditioning routines - the very same routines that he uses when preparing his famous charges Bernard 'The Executioner' Hopkins, 'Sugar' Shane Mosley, Steve 'USS' Cunningham etc. for Championship fights - which became the basis of her personal training routine, and now part of her conditioning routine for clients.

In January 2009 Marianne signed a twelve fight professional contract with Bionic Bull Promotions.

In February 2009 Marianne returned to the UK, to obtain the visa required to compete in America, and Gleason's Boxing Gym, London where she was seen by former Olympic coach Terry Edwards MBE. Terry was so impressed with Marianne that he asked if he could work with her.

In May 2009 Gleason's Gym closed. John Rooney Jnr, who managed Gleason's, took over the facility and launched Rooney's Boxing Gym on 1st June 2009.

In September 2009 Marianne created a ladies only boxing class at Rooney's Gym, the success of the classes was immediate and within a month was increased to four classes per week.

Marianne, who already receives high levels of media interest for her boxing, started to receive press enquiries regarding her considerable coaching skills, and her women only classes. In January 2010 alone Marianne and her ladies class were featured in The Sunday Telegraph's Stella Magazine - Health and Fitness special - and received the accolade of being named as one of the top five personal trainers in London by Time Out Magazine (London's Best Personal Trainers feature).

In March 2010, just after the classes were increased to five days a week to include a class for the intermediate and experienced John Rooney decided to take the classes in house.

In April 2010, Marianne approached The Boxing Clinic with the view to offering women only classes at their gym in Islington, London N1. The Boxing Clinic's Director, Graham Boylan welcomed Marianne with open arms and immediately offered her slots on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. A few days later Tokei Gym, in Southwark, South East London offered Marianne a 6pm slot on Monday and Wednesday and Johnny Eames at the Ultrachem TKO gym in Canning Town, East London offered her slots on Friday at 6.00pm for her Boxing Skills classes and Saturday at 2.00pm for her Boxing fitness Classes.

Within a week of switching her personal training to Ultrachem TKO gym, partners Johnny Eames and Derek Grainger offered to assist Marianne with her professional boxing career. Johnny as manager and Derek as coach. Marianne jumped at the opportunity. Within a week Johnny Eames had secured Marianne a fight with Lana Cooper on a Steve Goodwin promoted show at York Hall, Bethnal Green, London on the 11th September 2010

Also in April 2010, Marianne's classes were also positively reviewed by Holland & Barratts Healthy Magazine


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