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[Photo by Richard Chambury] The great thing about Tumblr is that it will put you onto different things that you weren’t aware of such as artists, news, or in this case, media. If that isn’t the case for you then you need to step your feed up homie, you following the wrong folks. Now, I was minding my business while runnin through the reblogs with my woes (you know how them likes go) when the dashboard gawds laid this movie trailer in front of me from a 2014-released movie Mary Kom. Granted, we’re a little late — but I’m willing to bet you are too, so we’re gonna fix this together.
Sun, this my shit right here. This got me just as hype as Creed, but even more my dude cause this is based off a real fucking story. No fiction — we talking real time grime. This is the story of Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom (MC Mary Kom), a woman that picked up boxing and then proceeded to go on and become a five-time World Amateur Boxing champion as well as the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each of the six World Championships. Oh yes, that’s right. Mangte out here throwing these muh fucking hands. The trailer delves into how she got into boxing, her training, and having to deal with the patriarchy of her father coming down on her passion — one she excels at extremely well, which is of no matter to him. Mangte ain’t ’bout to let her life be reduced to hearing “no” or have her skills be denied and compartmentalized by someone else. Oh no, Magnte finna Shoryuken/Tiger-Uppercut/Down-Down…
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Omar Holmon is a content editor that is here to make .gifs, obscure references, and find the correlation between everything Black and Nerdy.
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