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When the money ran out, there was a donation - a "sugar mama," Savoy called her - who helped replenish the empty fund. Last year, the club received a grant that Savoy used to train 150 women who had been victimized by domestic violence. I've never seen that, and I've hung out in a lot of different boxing gyms." She doesn't make you train for six months before you get in the ring. A university professor named Cathy van Ingen was quoted, "I don't think other boxing clubs would consider real boxing, because Savoy encourages everybody to get in and do it. Savoy landed at Sully's gym and established a modest ring career before starting Newsgirls. In her own experience, she had changed in broom closets, suffered the prejudice of the male-dominated community and, in one instance, abandoned a club after reports that a woman had been raped on the premises. Savoy fought for years trying to organize a club devoted mostly - but not exclusively - to women fighters. The world changes, but Savoy's world didn't. All of Savoy's 68 cousins ended up seeing the piece. Then, in 1993, TSN - one of Canada's sports networks - made a short film about Savoy's attempt to start a female-only fight club, and broadcast it multiple times after being deluged with programming requests. Her parents were accepting of her sexuality, but they suggested that she keep it hidden from her aunts and uncle. Savoy moved to Toronto after coming out of the closet. The event was organized by sketch comedian, actor, activist and retired boxer Savoy Howe, who grew up in the Maritimes, a predominantly rural and socially conservative subregion of Atlantic Canada. It took me 16 years to meet my first gay person, but it took Lorenzo only seven. In between bouts, a woman in a boutonniere, vest and striped tie joked, saltily, with the crowd. The female boxers ranged from young to old, green to wizened, straight to gay, and were cheered on by a hollering crowd gathered on fold-up chairs that surrounded a creaking, shoe-skidded ring. I went to the fight with my son, Lorenzo, who has been to about six sporting events in his life. TORONTO - I've attended thousands of sporting events before, but none like the Newsgirls all-female fight night at their home gym in Toronto's east end.