(FEB 14) Lucia Alfaro, a boxer from Mexico, was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos. When Lucia was 15 years old, and at the time studying theatre, her brother had gotten into training in boxing to defend himself. Lucia began accompanying him to the gym, and two weeks into going she decided to also get into boxing to protect herself from bullying.
At that time womens boxing had been legalized in Mexico for only seven years, and in several places outside of Mexico City there was no women training and no coach willing to do so. Due to that dilemma, her father began to take her to a gym near