The loss of her grandmother nearly derailed her promising boxing career. Now she's about to step in the ring at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The loss of her grandmother nearly derailed her promising boxing career. Now she's about to step in the ring at the Paris Olympics.It was bestowed upon her as a rambunctious child by her late grandmother, who would later become instrumental in Lazano's boxing career as her top supporter and greatest inspiration.But even when Lozano wasn't looking for trouble, it had a way of finding her, shaping the person she has become as she persevered through adversity, loss and grief.
Being inside her grandmother's home was a safe haven, but Lozano said the surrounding area at the time was riddled with violence, particularly after sundown. "She opened up about what was happening," Lozano's mother Yadhira said."I told her, 'I’ll talk to the teacher, I’ll talk to the principal and we’ll have a meeting.' She said, 'Mom, let me solve this by myself.' And it’s not good when a 10-year-old says that. But she was, like, 'Give me some time, I’ll solve it.'"They would just trip me, start kicking me, and, you know, I start fighting," she said."And I never knew how to fight.
"She believed in me when I was a kid. More than anybody. More than anybody when I was growing up," Lozano said."Whenever she would go to my fights the very small amount of times that she did go she'd be cheering like crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy." Lozano and her mother went to the house to find the doors locked. Lozano forced her way inside and found her grandmother on the floor, having died of what an autopsy later revealed to be a heart attack. "She got scared and didn't want to tell us," she said."Unfortunately, that day we lost our angel, our best friend, and Jenny was the one who suffered the most.""I promised my grandma I was going to fight," she said."She said she was going to be there.
The victory came and went, but the grief remained, and she began expressing it through anger and rebellion. "I lost my track," she said."I was going down the wrong path horribly with the wrong people, and I was just doing dumb stuff because I was so blind and just because I wanted to get distracted."
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