Jennifer Abdo’s Reviews > She's a Knockout!: A History of Women in Fighting Sports > Status Update

p. xli
"Women have been competing in fighting sports for thousands of years, despite the perpetual claims by opponents of female fighters that they do not belong in the ring, on the mat, or in the cage. The convenient forgetfulness or misremembering of the past is a way to erase the history of female fighters and substantiate the inaccurate belief that women have never, and will never, belong in certain male spaces."