Warrnambool’s Dakotah Keane says she is confident a change of gyms will bring out the best in her.
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Earlier this year the 16-year-old joined Lyndo’s Boxing Gym to train under Koroit-based coach Lyndon Edney, which she said had already made “heaps of difference”.
Keane travels to Melbourne on Sunday to take on Tylah McDonald in the 54-kilogram division. Last time they met the result did not go her way but she said she felt primed to seek redemption.
"I have never felt this fit going into a fight," she said.
"And we have been working on things I never got to (previously) work on properly.
"We have been training extra hard and practicing on different stuff and working on the things that I didn't do (right) last time."
Coach Lyndon Edney was also confident Keane would get the win but said she would have to work hard for it.
"Dakotah always has fast hands she is always sharp and is a great counter boxer,” he said.
"Probably just her fitness was lacking a little bit but we have definitely amped that up a little bit and she is punching pretty damn hard too, so she’s looking good.”
Lyndon will also have a second fighter stepping in the ring on Sunday as his son Charlie Edney will go face-to-face with Rueben Higgins in the 66-kilogram class.
He said Charlie was also a “pretty good chance” in his second fight back after a lengthy spell.
"Charlie is up against the kid that he fought in his first fight and we know he has made improvements in his game," he said.
"But Charlie has been choofing along pretty nicely to though so it should be a good hard fight and we know Charlie's style is well suited and if he sticks to the game plan then we are quietly confident."
It was Charlie that walked away victorious the last time he met with Higgins, though the 14-year-old said he did not believe that placed any great expectations on him to win again.
"I don't feel like there is any extra pressure," he said.
"The kid I am (against) is two years older and he has a brother who is a pro boxer so he would be doing advanced-training probably all of the time. I feel like that (redemption) is what he would be training for.
"His brother watched my last rounds when I was up there (in Melbourne) and they have accepted the fight so they know what I am going to be like.”