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World Champion, Hoi Jeon Moo Sool
National Champion, Tae Kwon do
Four-Time National Boxing Champion
(Golden Gloves and USA Boxing)
Ringside World Champion
Women’s National Championship
IKW World Classic Kickboxing Champion
Voted Three Times As Best Women Amateur USA Boxer
Silver Medalist At The Taiwan Invitational World Tournament
Two-Time Champion IKF World Classic Using International Rules
Selected to first ever USA Women’s World Boxing Team
Ten-Time State and Regional Boxing Champion

Some other astonishing statistics about Jennifer Han from 2007 records include her AKB kickboxing record of 87- 4 and amateur boxing record of 86 -16. Looking back over the years she soundly defeated the opposition in winning the USA Boxing National Championship in 2001 and again in 2004. She was tirelessly busy throughout the new century but kept her fighting skills at a peak by also winning The National Golden Gloves in 2002 and 2004. It should be noted here that Jennifer possesses extraordinary beauty, especially for a fighter. However, her selection as ‘Golden Girl’ at the 2002 and 2004 Golden Gloves was for ‘Best Boxer’ of both of those tournaments. After a respite Jennifer reloaded in 2007 and won the Ringside World Championship.
With all her championships and accolades, Jennifer found herself in a dilemma of sorts as 2008 rolled around. Her boxing trainer, Jerry Wright, passed away from cancer and her enthusiasm for the sport ebbed and she suffered a spell of melancholy. During that period of casualty,

Jennifer was enticed to sign up with Chuck Norris and his newly formed professional kickboxing league of many United States cities. Jennifer and former El Paso professional kickboxing champion, Fernie Calleros, were assigned to the St. Louis, Missouri team. Jennifer found little time to train as she had to assume the majority of her father’s dojo classes due to an injury he suffered and the waste time takes on an old body regardless of proper diet, maintenance, and superior mind and body training in the arts. Moreover, she had no choice but to assume the responsibility of training her brothers and sisters and the eighteen hour workday became a detriment to her own professional aspirations. Nevertheless, she planed out of El Paso and demonstrated her experience and class to outpoint New Jersey’s Munah Holland 14-11. Unfortunately, though her effective techniques were far superior to Holland, the latter was able to entice Jennifer into brawling throughout much of the fight. Jennifer’s timing was definitely off and she lacked the set-ups so familiar to her style of boxing to dispatch Holland. The battle was won but her weapons a little rusty and that alone would not bode well for Jennifer, who would soon discover that just a millimeter of weaponry being off target could cause a hiccup or two.
Throughout recorded history, ring battles have been won or lost depending on planning and preparation; some have been lost due to chicanery and outright thievery, while Lady Luck has also played a major role. Sometimes, a warrior brings equal ability in all phases of the game and beats a heavy favorite because of desire, hunger, and plain old guts.

Then there is the chess game wherein one fighter dominates a more talented and physical fighter simply because of smarts. Gene Tunney lost to only one man, the undersized and partially blind Harry Greb. Greb outhustled and outsmarted Tunney and bludgeoned him so bad he had to make a hospital trip. Joe Louis went down to Hitler’s Max Schmeling and the racist Third Reich was never more enthusiastic of their eugenic platform of a ‘Master Race.’ Muhammed Ali felt the pressure and winging power hooks of ‘Smokin’ Joe Frazier and went sadly down to defeat. George Foreman was later beaten by Ali who used the now famous ‘Rope-A-Dope’ strategy to wear down the hulking powerhouse and then knock him cold. Roberto Duran eked out a victory over the magnificent boxer, Sugar Ray Leonard. Duran was seemingly invincible until his rematch with Leonard proved that his ‘Hands of Stone’ were just pebbles against the lightning combinations and quick feet of a rejuvenated fighter who took his loss to the gym and not to the ‘Tear House.’ What is important here is ‘Lesson’s Learned.’ Tunney came back a smarter fighter and outpointed Greb. The ‘Brown Bomber’ shook off his loss and prepared for an epic battle against the German in a rematch. This time Louis knew his enemy and his Blitzkrieg attack. He easily blunted the German’s attack and with a withering counter attack of his own knocked out his foe in quick fashion sending Schmeling back to the Fatherland to answer to the Fuehrer. And who doesn’t remember the comeback of George Foreman at age forty-five to regain the heavyweight championship of the world.


It happens in kickboxing too. Seven-Time world champion in five different weight divisions, Cliff ‘Magic’ Thomas, met his nemesis in one solid fighter and champion, Tony ‘The Tiger’ Rosser. Rosser was the only kickboxer Thomas could recall that must have trained as hard as he did for a fight. Though Rosser didn’t have the knockout firepower of the ‘Magic Man’ he did have a resilient chin and superb conditioning. After losing a controversial decision to Rosser, Thomas worked on speed and even increasing his thundering power by employing old-timer boxing methods with an axe and hammer. In the rematch, Rosser’s blinding hand speed and quick kick techniques were nullified by Thomas’ power and determination and down went Rosser so many times that the canvas became his only escape from a possible final justice. With that said, let us explore Jennifer’s hiccups and how they too may become just battles lost and not a dynasty defeated.
Jennifer was called once again to fight for the St. Louis Kickboxing team. Her opponent from New Jersey, Munah Holland, had previously lost to Jennifer by a 14-11 decision. Holland wasn’t by any means a mere opponent for the distinguished Han. She had a tremendous amateur career winning six national championships. Built like a tank she didn’t have a chink in her armor. She always came loaded for bear. She was a durable type who could sustain unbelievable punishment while unleashing her own strong fists and especially her deadly backfists. However, she was an easy target for Jennifer’s front and sidekicks and a sucker for Jennifer’s hand combinations from various angles. The fight was easily in Jennifer’s control until the last two seconds of the round. Call if luck or call it carelessness, what happened in those two seconds obliterated a great performance and gave the General of the Han dynasty a headache to remember. What transpired was this:

For some unthinkable reason, Jennifer was dominating her opponent and yet was hankering for a knockout or tinkering around for ‘Star TV Time’ when she uncharacteristically dropped her guard and unleashed a spinning backfist at her foe. Unbeknownst to Jennifer, her opponent was desperate as the clock ticked away and let loose her own spinning backfist; and because Jennifer had carelessly dropped her hands she was struck full force on the jaw and dropped on the canvas, knocked out for the first time in her checkered career. The battle was lost and for Jennifer, it was time to regroup and prepare her self and her thriving siblings for future wars in the ring and to not let the sting of defeat depress the gains of the dynasty. Again, it is all about ‘Lessons Learned.’
After her stunning loss, Jennifer still found it difficult to find a promoter who would arrange multiple fights for her. She decided that the best course of action was to enter the professional boxing ranks. Again, she spent months attempting to get her first fight. Nobody called and Jennifer was quite dismayed. Her siblings were maturing and steadily winning major events to forestall any rumors that the Han dynasty might be wavering. Jennifer had set the bar high and made the difficult decision to forego her professional boxing career while she tended to the business of training her bothers and sisters to maintain the lofty status of the empire. Her brother Abraham was already turning heads in kickboxing and boxing tournaments and the immediate focus was to prepare him for the front lines of the lethal sports. (Continue--->)

 

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