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Advertisement Pair of "fighters": Trainer Ann Wolfe brings boxer James Kirkland home Trainer Ann Wolfe is a woman in a man's world. Like her fighter, James Kirkland, she's been through a tough journey and it's toughened both of them for their march to a title shot. Kirkland showed the effects of their brutal journey by surviving a war with Alfredo Angulo Saturday. Source: (AHN Sports) Reporter: Shawn Krest Location: Cancun, Mexico Published: November 7, 2011 03:16 pm EST Topics: Sports, Boxing Las Vegas might have been too shiny for James Kirkland. In January, after Kirkland finished his second prison term, the pair of which had him incarcerated for half of the last eight years, Kirkland’s manager tried to get him away from the rough East Austin, TX neighborhood where he grew up. “He had to move,” advisor Michael Miller told the Austin papers at the time. “He knew if he could get out of the element and out of East Austin, it would be the best thing for him.” Kirkland had a new trainer, a new city, and a new start. Things couldn’t have gone worse. In April, in his third fight since leaving an Austin halfway house in January, Kirkland was floored three times in under two minutes before losing his first career fight by first-round knockout. It was an opponent Kirkland should have handled easily, and it was all he and his team needed to see. All the Vegas glitz couldn’t take the Austin out of James Kirkland, and he returned to the woman who told him that all along. Ann Wolfe knows Austin. It’s where she fled after both her parents died when she was a teenager. It’s where she served time of her own for dealing drugs, and where she lived as a homeless mother of two, sleeping under vehicles in parking lots during good weather, and taking the kids into a hospital E.R. waiting room during bad. It was in the hospital emergency ward that Ann first saw a women’s boxing match, and it occurred to her she could get paid to fight. “I’d be dead without boxing,” she told HBO before Kirkland’s last fight in July, “or I would have committed homicide…choked the life out of another human being.” Instead, she was able to mold a successful pro boxing career and a second career as the leading female trainer in the sport. After all that, you still can’t take the Austin out of Ann Wolfe, and she won’t let you try. When a local TV station had her on her morning show and referred to her “at risk” upbringing, Ann cut her off. “I wasn’t at risk. I was homeless,” she growled. In addition to training pros, Ann also runs a boxing program for East Austin youth. Like her background, Ann doesn’t whitewash the lessons she gives the kids. There’s no talk about building self -esteem or teaching conflict resolution when Coach Wolfe is on the prowl. “I teach these children how to destroy,” she says. “So they have something to fight for.” If that sounds tough, well, you’re just seeing the Austin in Ann Wolfe. “Boxing’s not aggressive,” she’s said on many occasions. “Being in the streets is aggressive.” “I’ve always had to fight, my whole life. I’ve always had to struggle for whatever I wanted,” she says. The struggle has made her a hard, tough woman with a temper, not at all unlike the troubled kids, like James Kirkland, who have come through the doors of her gym. They’re all from the streets of East Austin, and they‘ve all turned to the organized violence of a boxing ring to escape the chaotic violence of the rest of their day. “A kid says to me, ‘I don’t have a mom.’ Yeah, me either,” she told HBO. “Kid says, ‘I’ve been to jail.’ Me too. ‘I’m hungry.’ Me too.” On other occasions, she‘s said, “The only love these kids are gonna see is in the gym. The only place they’re gonna sleep is in the gym. I have kids who haven’t eaten, they’ve been kicked out by their parents. Mom doesn’t want them. Dad says if you don’t take him I’ll send him to foster care.” She takes the lost causes of East Austin and gives them what they truly need. People live without homes and without regular food. She’s eaten from trash cans and woke with her children covered in morning dew. She gives them discipline and structure. She also gives them love, but like everything else that comes from Ann Wolfe, it’s of the tough variety. “My gym is 10 percent boxing and 90 percent life lessons,” she says. “If they know nothing else, they know they’re going to be here at 5:00. That’s what was missing from my life--structure.” Wolfe took Kirkland into her gym, and with her in his corner, he moved to the brink of a title shot. That’s when his legal troubles hit. He served 30 months for armed robbery, then bought a gun while out on parole and was sent back to prison on the violation. During his second stint in prison, he and Wolfe had a falling out. Neither person likes to discuss the details, but it appears that Wolfe continued teaching, and the incarcerated Kirkland wasn’t ready for the lesson. While he was still serving his time, Wolfe said of Kirkland, “Before he resumes his career, he has to become a man.” She continued, “James went from having nothing to having a lot, and he didn’t know how to deal with that. It’s hard to change a person who’s been engrained in East Austin with nothing. Give them a half a million dollars, and I guarantee that’s not going to change them…People ask me what in the world he was thinking. He was thinking of normal every day stuff. He wasn‘t doing anything but what he‘d usually do.” With all the success and all the money, James Kirkland was still the same lost East Austin kid who had to claw for everything he had. And when he left for the lights of Vegas, he lost the one thing that all of Ann Wolfe’s kids have to keep them going--the fight. James Kirkland is back with Ann Wolfe now. She was in his corner when he won a first-round knockout in June, his first fight since the April loss. That win, in the less-than-exotic locale of Frisco, Texas, led to a spot on the undercard of an HBO-televised card in Las Vegas. Kirkland won by second-round TKO in his return to Vegas. After that trip to the boxing mecca, it was back to the hinterland for Kirkland and Wolfe. On Saturday, fighter and trainer travelled to Cancun, Mexico, and those life lessons paid off. Alfredo Angulo dropped Kirkland with a right hand 30 seconds into their much-anticipated showdown with a possible title shot on the horizon. It was April’s debacle all over again for Kirkland. Except this time, with Wolfe in his corner, Kirkland was able to dig deep and respond. It’s fitting that the high-stakes test took place far from the lights and glitz of Vegas. That’s the game plan that coach and fighter have used to reach this point. Ann knows that you can learn to box in Vegas. The coaches and trainers there will polish your skills. She teaches you to fight. That’s the East Austin way. “It’s more challenging to work on them becoming men than on them becoming champions,” she says. “I know how to make a champion. Some kids don’t want that opportunity, but the ones that do, I’ll be there for the rest of my life.” He had to learn it the hardest way possible, but James Kirkland has returned to Ann Wolfe for that opportunity. She’ll make him a man, and may make him a champion in the process. Republish Email Facebook Digg Twitter Share Copyright © 2011 AHN - All rights reserved.Content including text, photos, videos, audio, graphics and logos may not be used for commercial purposes, reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium without permission and license from CNS. [ Close ] When publishing articles from AHN we require that you follow several simple rules and that you abide by our Terms and Conditions. You may: Use and display the provided article text on a website or blog. 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