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1. BOXING COMMENTATOR JIM TRIAL
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But distance and time and age and it just doesn't work.ĭavid Begnaud: Did you ever see circling back with her later in life? … we tried to keep it together for a while. Fellow high school athlete, three years her senior, Sherry Lusk.Ĭhristy Salters-Martin: She went away to college. Christy Salters, right, kept her first girlfriend, fellow high school athlete Sherry Lusk, a secret from her family.Ĭhristy lived a double life and kept her first love a secret. She says her dad pushed her to dream big-with one excruciating exception: her love-life.ĭavid Begnaud: When did you first realize you were a lesbian?Ĭhristy Salters-Martin: I think I knew that I was attracted to women, fifth or sixth grade.ĭavid Begnaud: Did you confide in anyone?Ĭhristy Salters-Martin: No. As a fighter, Christy would brand herself "The Coalminer's Daughter."ĭavid Begnaud: I was … always out with my dad. Her father, John Salters, was a coalminer. It was just very much matter of-fact, this is who I am.Ĭhristy bared it all, starting with her childhood in the tiny town of Itmann, West Virginia.Ĭhristy Salters-Martin: Itmann, West Virginia is … literally one mile from "Welcome to, Now leaving." Prosecutors Ryan Vescio and Deborah Barra were worried that the jury would have their doubts about this matchup.ĭavid Begnaud: She became famous beatin' the hell out of people.ĭavid Begnaud: So … it's pretty plausible that she might beat the hell out of her husband.īarra says she believed Christy's story - the good, the bad, and the bloody.ĭeborah Barra: She was very open about her marriage. Ryan Vescio: This case rose and fell on the credibility of Christy and Jim.

BOXING COMMENTATOR JIM TV

Hundreds of thousands of Court TV viewers watched as a prizefighter known for knocking out 32 opponents, testified that her much older and seemingly frail husband had nearly killed her. PROSECUTOR RYAN VESCIO : What was the thought that went through your mind when you saw the defendant with that knife in the bedroom?ĬHRISTY SALTERS-MARTIN: I said to him, "are you gonna kill me?"ĭavid Begnaud: The last time you had seen Jim, he's standing over you with a gun.Ĭhristy Salters-Martin: You know … I thought about it a lot and how am I gonna react to being in the same room with him? On April 24, 2012, in a courtroom in Orlando, Florida, boxing champion Christy Martin boldly faced down her fiercest opponent yet - her ex-husband, James Martin. What would the jury believe? THE COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER "I think it's a remarkable story because you have a world-famous champion boxer and she could still be in a domestic violence relationship, because that isn't about physical strength. "Absolutely," Barra replies, but she says it's not that simple. "So - it's pretty plausible that she might beat the hell out of her husband." "She became famous beatin' the hell out of people," Begnaud comments to prosecutor Deborah Barra. Prosecutors also wondered whether a jury would believe that a celebrated boxer would be beaten by her husband. She is the only female boxer ever to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. "He was constantly afraid of physical attacks by her." Former world champion Christy Salters-Martin is credited with legitimizing women's boxing. "The way Jim described it … Christie …was extremely aggressive.," defense attorney Bill Hancock tells Begnaud. Jim Martin's attorney maintained it was Christy who attacked her husband, not the other way around.

BOXING COMMENTATOR JIM TRIAL

Jim Martin would then go on trial for attempted murder. Moments later, he fired one shot into her chest, missing her heart by just inches.Ĭhristy Martin survived that day in their Florida home. When Christy Martin finally tried to end the marriage – she says Jim went on the attack, beating and stabbing her, before pulling a gun. But I didn't have the same type of mental strength to overtake him," Martin responds. "I keep thinking of the people who will watch this and say, 'How does a woman who's so powerful … how is she not able to stand up for herself at home,'" asks correspondent David Begnaud. Away from the ring, however, Martin says she faced a different fight because her husband and trainer Jim Martin was abusive and controlling. She won 49 fights and was heading for 50. However, it was at home where she fought her biggest battle – the one for her lifeĬhristy Martin was a worldwide sensation in the boxing ring and was even on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Opponents feared boxer Christy Martin in the ring. Christy Martin - The Fight of Her Life 41:51