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Sydney Sweeney flexes her muscles as boxer Christy Martin in BTS photos from upcoming biopic
Sydney Sweeney flexed her muscles as she showed off her dramatic physical transformation to play boxer Christy Martin in a new biopic.
Known as 'The Coal Miner's Daughter' thanks to her father's job, Christy, 56, originally from West Virginia, is credited with putting women's boxing on the map after taking on Deirdre Gogarty in front of a sell-out crowd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 1996. The Hall of Fame boxer gushed over Sweeney and also wholly refuted the claims that the Euphoria star 'is not pretty and she can't act' as previously stated by a top Hollywood producer. Christy, 56, originally from West Virginia , is credited with putting women's boxing on the map after taking on Deirdre Gogarty in front of a sell-out crowd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 1996 - pictured with Jim in 1996
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