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Chicago investment banker and newly minted welterweight champion opens up about overcoming homelessness, embracing her inner nerd and why Katie Taylor is on her way out
Jessica McCaskill has not slowed down since capturing boxing’s undisputed welterweight championship last week with a surprise majority-decision win over Cecilia Brækhus, the previously undefeated Norwegian widely regarded as the sport’s pound-for-pound world No 1. But the 35-year-old investment banker from Chicago, who overcame homelessness as a child and the 6-1 odds against her on Saturday night, doesn’t know any other way.
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