The 40-year-old fighter will always be grateful for the opportunities outside of the sport that she’s been offered as a result of her career.

She told Boxing News magazine: “From school, I haven’t really got any qualifications, so boxing has literally given me everything.

“It has opened doors for me that maybe wouldn’t have opened.

“I sit on a lot of panels where people have gone to university. I sit on parliamentary groups as well where people have gone the academic route.

“It’s opened a lot of doors I never thought possible.

“It has given me a platform and a voice that people want to listen to.

“It’s given me financial freedom. It’s given me direction.

“Boxing has given me strength. It’s given me character and helped shape me into the woman that I am today.”

But the Olympian believes the sport needs extensive reform.

She said: “I’d like to change the scoring. Remove all the red tape that there is to get you to the next level. You have to do this and do that.

“I’d like to change the power that the Board, promoters and managers have over the athletes, who are the most important people in the sport but the least protected.

“I’d like to change the doping policies.

“I’d like to change the pay structure.

“I would like fighters on small hall shows to get the opportunity to be on TV.

“I would like more boxing to be back on terrestrial TV.”