By Raquel Ruiz for MyBoxingFans
She already has her moniker, “Queen of the Ring” and it fits perfectly to her boxing abilities. She knows hard work, sacrifice, perseverance, acceptance, and triumph; qualities that a true monarch needs to posses to be an example for her people.
Queen Underwood, the four-time amateur lightweight national champion, ranked number three in the world, and recent winner of a silver medal in Quito during the qualifiers for the Pan American games, is a born and raised native of Seattle. This Saturday, June 4th at 1:30 PM, she will have a running event named, “The Queen Team Victory Dance” that starts at Cappy’s Boxing Gym in 1408 22nd Ave., and ends at the Westlake Center, 400 Pine Street, Seattle.
“I am going to enjoy every step of the road workout all the way down to Westlake Center,” said the 26-year-old, Queen, whose baby steps in her brilliant amateur boxing career started in 2003. Since day one, the boxer has taken her dream to be number one very seriously.
In her quest to conquer the 2012 Olympics, the Queen of the Ring started a full time training camp last year that includes eight to ten hours of boxing training everyday. Her coaches at Cappy’s have organized a big campaign to raise money and awareness to help the true champion fulfill a dream that will bring glory to the amateur Olympic sport in the United States. The event will have tons of news highlights around the world as women boxers walk in the opening ceremony of the Summer Games in London for the first time of the hundreds of years of Games’ existence.
She always puts 100% into her training, said Tricia Turton, one of her coaches at Cappy’s, and because of that she said, Queen deserves to be greeted at Westlake this Saturday by hundreds of Seattle residents.
Everywhere The Queen goes, or steps into the ring, she amazes the public by her genuine champion heart and ability to overcome anything that is presented to her. Last year during the World Championships in Barbados, Queen gave the performance of her life during the best championship bout, according to many journalists and AIBA workers. She was even in the last round 15-15 and went on to defeat the world best boxer, 
Kathie Taylor, from Ireland, but the points at the end favored Taylor 18-16.
That historic September afternoon, for the Queen and for USA Boxing, the hundreds in the audience, 345 boxer participants, coaches from 75 countries and all the journalist at the 10-day event were almost paralyzed by The Queen when in the first round she was loosing 0 to 6 and the second round 2 to 12. But in the third round, the fierce and confident USA boxer punished Taylor and brought the Irish boxer to her knees and got the score 8 to17. The coliseum was incredulous of what was happening, as the Queen turned things around and in the fourth round, the two-point victory was Taylor’s. After the bout, Taylor confessed her fear of being defeated by the Queen. And Taylor-Queen has become the most anticipated bout in the history of amateur women’s boxing.
Fame and support of women boxing is increasing around the globe as many countries in the Eastern hemisphere give 100% economic and training support to their boxers. In United States, things are different, as most of the time the boxers need to find their own financing to travel, train, and live. In spite of this great obstacle, either sun or rain, the Queen wakes up at dawn ready to conquer the world.
Event Information
Date: Sat June 4th,
Start Time: 1:40PM
Start Location: Cappy’s Gym 1408 22nd Ave, Seattle 98122
End Location: Westlake Center – 400 Pine St, Seattle 98101
End Time: 2:30PM
More information about Queen of the Ringh www.QueenTeam.org
Boxing is in her bloodline, (her father and six of her uncles were Golden-Gloves-Boxers, and one even fought pro for a number of years), but she will go farther than any one else in that line.
She has a deep passion for the sport and understands what it takes to progress.
God Bless and keep you in all you do.
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