Home Page
Search WBAN
Latest News-Women
Biography- Sue TL Fox
WBAN Online Store
Boxer's Profiles
Fight Results
Upcoming Events
Crazy Matchmaking Fights!
Past/Present Ratings
Boxing Trivia
Tiger Tales by Fox
Amateur Scene

Women Cops who Box
Mismatches
About WBAN


Sue Fox Named  in the "Top Ten" Most -Significant Female Boxers of All Time - Ring Magazine - Feb. 2012

HISTORY OF
WOMEN'S BOXING

Historical -All links
Historical Events
History Firsts
Flash from the Past
Past Boxer Profiles
70'S/80'S Past Boxers
Pre-70'S Boxers
Past Amateur Boxers
About Sue TL Fox

FREE TOP GALLERIES!

Video streaming, over
11, 500 photos, and more! 
   

Hot Hot HOT Photo Galleries!Flash Photo Slideshows!
   

Boxing Records for women boxers..archived records!
To Check out Go Here
 


Sue TL Fox Inducted into the West Coast Hall of Fame Oct. 17, 2021  Full Story

History-First
"Women's Boxing"
Database


Sue TL Fox Featured on Episode of Video Game - Boxing Manager 2! 
Press Release 2023

 

Having Problems
 with the website?
Send an Email

Directly to WBAN!

 





 

 

 

 

                    
                                                                                                   
                                   
 
Biography:  Brittany B.T. Sims
September 9, 2020

 

     
   
   


   

Poem: Survival of the Fittest
Survival of the Fittest.
Born to Survive.
Made to Thrive.
Failure forced me to Learn;
Life Equated to Pain.
Loneliness Promised Sanctuary.
Weakness became My Adversary.
Strength became My Bounty.
Fighting became My Remedy.
Jesus Christ became My Therapy.
Quitting became a Theory.
Evolving became My Final Option.
Survival of the Fittest. 

Author: Brittany Taylor (B.T.) Sims

Biography

Braud and Anderson (1998) summarize the importance of breadth and plurality of approaches, as well as depth and intensity of approach, to appreciate or access the abundance of life’s yet sometimes hidden, treasures in connection to a modern saying, “If you wish to find water, it is better to dig one 60-foot well than to dig six 10-foot wells” (p.35). This could have a strong translation to telling seekers of knowledge to not give up, explore all options, and keep searching until the object or objective being sought after has been found.

I am that seeker of knowledge.

Hi everyone!

My name is B.T. is short for my first and middle name Brittany Taylor. I am a 1-0 pro MMA fighter, 1-0 pro Boxer. I thought I’d do something different in my biograph. I will conduct a narrative or interview on myself so you, the audience, can learn about me in a fun and different way.

Key:

·         Interview questions are in bold.

·         Answers are not.

Narrative/Interview: B.T. “Eagle Flex” Sims

Q1: So what’s up with your fight record and why are you so….you?

There is a reason why my boxing record doesn’t have many fights. This is based off of what was given to me by matchmakers, managers, etc. Out of all my proposed fights that were booked, all except 2 opponents backed out. One of the 2 fights in question had some politics get in the way from different levels within the industry.  The other fight went through with minimal disturbance. Hence my pro boxing record. Meaning, I would have at least 10 fights under my belt by now if it had not been for the bumps in the road previously described.

Q2: What significant titles have you won as an amateur?

State

Award

Year
Oregon Golden Gloves Champion//Sanction #:17-50-15335 2017
Oregon Golden Girl 2017
New Mexico National Qualifier (Runner-Up) 2017
Florida National Golden Gloves Champion/Sanction#: 17-37-14856 2017
Missouri Ringside World Champion 2017
Utah National Boxing Championship (Semi-Finalist) 2017

What is cool about these titles is the National Golden Gloves (NGG) Championship and the Ringside World Championship (RWC) had only a week of rest in between them.

If you don’t appreciate this then I will explain.

In amateur boxing, to win the title hopefuls /participants/ boxers/ fighters must fight in these tournaments that last all week. Many hopefuls could likely compete every day of competition. Some could be given a pass on one or two of the competition days because anything can happen in boxing. Others could become automatic champions because there are no other boxers registered to compete at that weight. In this case, many coaches would talk to their fighter(s) to see if they wanted to compete in the tournament by fighting against another boxer who fell in similar circumstances in a weight class higher or lower. Lastly, since anything could happen in boxing, fighters could go to tournaments by themselves with-out their coach and will be just fine because other coaches step in to help in that boxer’s corner. It’s a supportive environment.

I can say I have experienced all of these descriptions. However, I feel that experiences such as these help mold amateur boxers young and old to always expect the unexpected and rise to the challenge even when unprepared inside and outside the of ring.

Q3: Cool, what else is cool about you?

Let’s see… I’ve been trying to teach myself Spanish for some time now. I’m finally starting to be able to understand and speak Spanglish without fear, and I appreciate those who are helping me learn.

Como estan ustedes!

Mucho Gusto! Yo voy hablo/a (? No se) en Spanglish. Me llama B. T. “Eagle Flex” Sims. Estoy aprendiendo espanol aun pero yo trabajando dura. Gracias a todo quien ayudarme con muchas palabras!estoy aprendiendo mucho.

Me gusta ver los videos de boxeo con los boxers como Julio Cesar Chavez Sr., Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson, Jackie Nava, Lucia Rijker, and Ann Wolfe to say a few. Me gusta boxeo y me gusta a pelear.

Q4: Do you have a motto?

Yes, “Failure is not always the destination. Aim for the stars, float through the universe, and experience the galaxies. But, before you do, get your education first”(BT Sims)

Q5: Why is education so important to you?

I hated school. In high school, I thought I could make it just by my athletic abilities. I took a computer class from a teacher who, rumor had it, changed grades especially for athletes. To make a long story short, I skipped the class and was about to fail the class when track season started.

Q6: So??

Oh so….Did I do it? Did I ask for a grade change? You bet I did!

Did I run that season my 12th grade year? Absolutely!

Did I care? No, but subconsciously that action of asking for a grade I did not deserve did something detrimental to my cognitive educational development in the years to come.

Q7: Well? Do Tell.

I only went to college because my Dad challenged me: “You can be whatever you want to be and go where ever you want to go, but get your education first” (Gary Sims, Sr.)

I only got into college because of my running abilities in track and field because my grades where so bad.

This meant I had to beg for a chance.

The colleges that did take me, I flunked out. No teacher felt sorry for me. Some didn’t even care. Soon, neither did I. I had no more excuses to why I kept flunking out or being on academic probation. I just didn’t want to go to school” I dropped out. My decision to go back and how I got back in school is for a different story at a different time.

My point is, my Dad challenged me to get my Bachelor degree when I just needed 2 more classes to get my Associate Degree (btw nothing is wrong with the Associate degree if that’s what you want. No judgment from me. You worked hard). I took this challenge and it took me 8 years to get my Bachelor degree.

He challenged me again to reach higher saying the same thing: “I don’t care what you do; I don’t care where you go. Get your education first” (Gary Sims, Sr.). This meant he challenged me to get my Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA). I was officially irritated, But challenge accepted. So, I simultaneously went to school, boxed in tournaments, became a homeschool tutor for two children who were taking virtual homeschool lessons, and became a fitness instructor for boxing. Was that stressful in my world? Yes. Did I complain? Yes. Did anyone care? No.

I went from the Dean’s list to the Academic Probation list and soon dropped out. After sometime out of school, I saw the importance of school. I once again accepted my Dad’s challenge and plunged forward. It took me almost 4 years to get my Master degree, but I got it. This is another story that you may like but for a different time.

I finally got it, no more educational challenges. I decided to take a much welcomed a year off to think and enjoy life without a computer or a book to lug around when I went to my boxing competitions. It was a year too many because my Dad didn’t challenge me. I no longer had a drive to beat something. I accomplished the goals that were challenged but like Alexander Hamilton the play “I’m never satisfied”. However, I did still felt like I had to resort to begging as a female boxer in the industry of boxing. Though I was desperate for a fight, I got tired of asking and being rejected. I got tired of not being seen for the fighter I am. I got tired of being skipped over.

A lady once told me that nobody can ever take her degree from her no matter how much she was in debt from school. She was never desperate. She no longer had to beg.

My father and mother fought systemic racism and discrimination by going back to school until they could no longer be told “no” from a position they were fully qualified for.

I made my own challenges.

Q8: What were the challenges?

·         I will stay hungry but I will always work to have food on my table. Meaning, if I want something and am unable to attain it, I will wait my turn.”

·         I will no longer settle to be desperate. Meaning, I will not settle to beg someone to change my grade if I didn’t deserve it.  

Q9: Wow that’s very intriguing. What other challenge did you make?

I enrolled in the Doctorate of Business Administration from the same school I got my MBA in, the University of Phoenix (UoP).

Q10: What, I thought you hated school, why would you do that?

Because George Washington Carver said, “education is the key to unlocking the golden door of freedom”. I needed to figure out why my boxing journey moved so slow or had hidden opportunities. I needed to figure out why finding this potential boxing career was like finding a needle in a haystack.

Q11: Yeah, almost impossible. You’d need a metal detector, or a really strong magnet! Right?

True, but those attract almost everything that is magnetic. Have you ever gone hunting for hidden treasure?

Q12: Sure, but what are you getting at?

Okay. Let’s say we are going on a hunt for a hidden treasure. One that has a certain type of metal that no one has ever attempted to get because that certain metal is considered a myth. People laugh at you for even trying to find it because that metal is considered a myth. A story passed down and changed through the generations of storytelling.

Q13: Okaaayyy???

Stay with me because it will all make sense. A meatal detector is helpful, but detects everything that is metal. Since I am getting all this metal, it is tiring because it’s not the metal I want. Instead of getting rid of the metal I found, I’m going to take it home because it can be useful. I realize that I needed to study about that specific type of metal. I need to know if there are certain areas or locations that would allow it to be more prone for discovery.

Q14: So now what?

I ask the locals of the area, but no one talks unless you know someone. It may take some time to acquire the information. So, I make a living off of what I sell. I also study to become an expert on how metal detectors could have a program built in to have the ability to detect specific metals the seeker demands. I create proposals and send them up the chain of commands until someone takes interest and puts me in front of a person who has taken myth seekers on successful excursions of other precious metals.

Q15: Then what?

I haven’t gotten to the next part yet to tell you.

Q16: Who are you again?

My name is B.T. “Eagle Flex” Sims. I am a scholar. I am a practitioner. I am a learner.

Q17: Where are you from and where do you live now?

I am from Columbus, Ohio (614- Eastmoor Middle//Eastmoor Academy-Class of 08’)

I currently live in Salem, Oregon but started out in Woodburn, Oregon.

Q18: What are the differences that you noticed when you first moved?

Well first, people out here in Oregon don’t care if it rains and don’t use umbrellas. I thought it was odd at first and laughed at people who didn’t carry and umbrella. Now look at me after almost 11 years, I know don’t use an umbrella and laugh at people who do.

Secondly, Mountains

I went to Eastern Oregon University (EOU) for undergrad when I moved out here to Oregon. I enjoyed my time out there when I attended because of the friends I gained. They are now living their life the best they can, and I am happy for their accomplishments.

Anyway, I was on the track team. After practice we would go to the athletic trainer’s room to go through therapy for our muscles, get in the ice bath, or just hang out. One day, while I’m about to get my shins massaged to decrease inflammation caused by shin splints, the trainer was talking about the foothills in the area.

I got irritated a bit and said in a cool, quiet, but sure tone, “You mean Mountains”.

The whole room got quiet and looked at me for a second then burst out with laughter.

“No”, the trainer said as he began to chuckle and his face cooled from the redness of his joy he had just shared with the rest of the room. “Those are called foothills. Mountains are Mountains”. A shy embarrassment filled my thoughts as I laughed at the realization that the state I had lived in and called home for almost 20 years had no real landscape.

Q19: What is your current pro fight record?

I currently have a record of 1-0 pro MMA and 1-0 Boxing.

Q20: Which fight came first?

MMA did. I was training to go back to the USA National Boxing Championship tournament to hopefully get a spot to fight for Olympic Gold. The debate was if I’d turn pro in boxing, would I still be able to fight for a spot to be on the Olympic team. This thought process came forward because I read an article about how pro boxers were allowed to go through the tournament to fight for gold. None of the pros made it that year so I assumed they’d still have the option open if I took a MMA pro fight at 3 days- notice. Through it all, it felt good to be back in the cage.

You can actually see that fight on UFC Fight Pass.

Q21: What fight is that and is that the only fight of you in UFC Fight Pass?

There are two:

King of the Cage (KOTC): Grand Finale

·         This one was my pro debut.

KOTC: Rouge Wave

·         This one was an amateur fight.

o       KOTC Ammy World Championship Belt

o       Opponent: Kalyn “50-KAL” //Invicta  Championship Fighter

Q22: Are you a Boxer or an MMA fighter?

Lol I’m a hybrid.

I meant to go back to MMA, but I have been enjoying boxing so I didn’t go back.

Q23: Would you go back to MMA?

No Comment

Q24: What are the differences in MMA and Boxing?

Well, here is the thing, my Dad always told me that a person cannot tell a person what apple pie truly taste like unless both parties have tasted apple pie before.

With respect to the two very respected disciplines of combat, both have the possibility to be used as a very cunning game of chess.

Look at boxers like Roberto Duran, Lucia Rijker, Mike Tyson, Tommy Morrison, Julio Cesar Chavez, Sr., Sugar  Ray Leonard, Sugar Ray Robinson, Marvin Hagler, etc.

Look at MMA Fighters: Valentina Schevchenko, Rose Namajunes, Ronda Rousey (arm-bars), Wanderli Silva, the Diaz Brothers, Jorge Masvidal, Kamaru Usman, Andersen “The Spider” Silva, JJ, and Weili etc.

In each of their respected sports they were/are dominant. More importantly, if they did not utilize their strategies or play the cunning game of chess then they met defeat. All except Lucia Rijker and Weili because their record was/is undefeated.

With that being said, I cannot tell you the differences if one hasn’t competed in both. I can say both disciplines demand hard work, motivation, drive, and passion so when one falls short the other 3 will carry it until it’s ready to work with the team again at full capacity.

Q25: Why am I boxing?

Answer 1:

·         To continue to develop and achieve goals in my professional life.

·         To gain knowledge of how the industry functions at its core.

·         To help bridge the gap for the full achievement of equality and equity for women working in the industry.

Answer 2:

I enjoy fighting. Fighting is My Remedy.

Q26: Who are you at your core?

I took a personality test

My Results: INTJ

Here is my reflection on it.

My results of the Personality test resulted in me having 44% introversion over extroversion, 28% intuition over sensing, 38% thinking over feeling, and 19% judging over perceiving.

I think the results were accurate in regard to how I function. I did chuckle to myself about INTJs appearing to display an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence to outsiders (Humanmetrics, 2020). This is because in my reflection of experiences, I have seemed to rub people the wrong way due to this self-confidence.

There was one instance when I first started working at one of my previous jobs, I told my superiors that I was there to “make them look good” to their superiors and to our clients. My meaning behind it was I wanted their superiors and clients to be impressed with them as leaders from the results of the work I produced. Instead, they took it as me being there to “out-shine” them. My experience at that job was very interesting to say the least, but when I was preparing to move on to my next career path they, those who were “rubbed” the wrong way finally understood what I meant.

Another accuracy I noticed in the Personality test was about how when INTJs considers someone to be slacking on the job, that person who is slacking will lose the respect the INTJ has for them, which includes superiors (Humanmetrics, 2020).

There was one job I had where I lost respect for a superior, and they became aware of it. I began to notice that the “busy” work my superior always claimed to have, was not “busy” work at all. This was discovered when the superior went on their first vacation from the job after working there since the start of the company. During the week of their absence we, my remaining co-workers and I, were prepared to take on the many tasks the superior was always complaining about.

As the week went by, we determined that the expected increase of work did not have a significant increase; instead, it remained the same as when the superior was present. As a result, my respect for the superior quickly declined.

Unfortunately, the steps I would take to accommodate the stress levels of the superior and the backup work I would readily take when they began to complain about the amount of work they had to do, was discontinued. The superior was also respectfully made aware of this.

The result of this personality test has changed my perspectives in a positive way mainly because I have secretly been second guessing myself. As a result, I would lighten my words that would make my messages less assertive or definite. Now, have no indignity in regard to displaying my self-confidence accurately and unapologetically. I can also stand by views of small talk and flirtation which I do not find a use for or understand at all. It’s awkward for me to say the least and I do not like it.

Q27: Where did you come from?

I came from shooting my shot like the considered founding fathers of America, Alexander Hamilton. I came from learning how to detect and know the differences about if someone is there to cheat, use, or mooch off in regard to the relationship (personal and professional). I came from being happy when a person gets their blessing while I’m in line waiting to get mine with strong faith. I came from humble beginnings, trusting Jesus Christ, and being kind. I came from challenges and defeats. I came from rejections and failures.

Q29: Wow that’s a lot to take in, do you have any goals?

There are a lot of layers. It would take a life time to tell you, but I can’t because I am too busy living in each moment like it’s my last. So, let me give you a few goals that I have as a future Champion of Boxing.

My Goals:

·         Being a woman who has respect for herself and other women, and continuing to push to challenge us to be the best we can be.

·         Gain your respect by doing “My Homework” which could be considered as training/practices at 100%. Because the victory of the battle is won in practices and trainings.

·         Gain your respect by executing “my homework” at precise and well thought out chess moves.

·         To give back and help those who are coming behind me to contribute to the prevention and avoidance of the pitfalls of this sport and industry.

·         Be a part of the team. I will contribute to the battle against inequality and the lack of equity for women within the boxing industry by forming innovative ideas and brainstorming with the pioneers of women boxing and other women boxers. I will also contribute by gaining knowledge from my fellow contributors to share, inspire, educate, and to unlock the golden door of freedom and George Washington Carver said.

Q30: Anything else?

No, not really. That is all for now. Thank you to everyone who is a part of this journey!

 

#     #     #     #   

The following are the references:

Braud, W., Anderson, R. (1998). Transpersonal research methods for the social sciences . Sage Publications.

Humanmetrics, Inc. (2020). Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test. http://www.humanmetrics.com/personality/intj.

UFC Fight Pass

Sims, Sr. Gary. (2008).

Sims, B.T. (2020).

Photo Credits:

Brittany Taylor
Emerald Queen Casino, Battle at the Boat
Gregory Dean Photography
KOTC
West Coast Action Photos.com

 

 
     
     
   
 
Back to WBAN
WBAN Disclaimer
Send in News Story!