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She is the first woman in history to unify all four belts, the first to headline a professional show in Norway and a fighter whose influence helped scrap a 33-year ban on the sport - for both men and women - in her homeland.

She was the only woman in the gym.

"In our promotional company there were 30, 40 fighters, all men and one woman. And I had to be every single day better than all the guys," she recalls.

"My co-workers were great. They never made me feel like I was different because I was a woman. Others might have thought that, but not my colleagues," she says.

The sanitary pads demonstrate his empathy and readiness to help should a nearby woman forget she's on her period; the literature that he knows all about the structural and institutional barriers of the patriarchy.