Will bassoonist become world boxing champion?
mainHannah Rankin, 28, a professional bassoonist, is fighting tonight for the WBA super-middleweight title at the Nassau Coliseum, Long Island.
Read more here.
We’re all tooting for her at Slipped Disc.
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I am a professional cellist and a boxing fan, so——-wow!
Hope she’s wearing headgear. Otherwise, I’d say if the bassoon doesn’t rattle her brain, the boxing will…
Sorry, no headgear in the pros. It is as dangerous as playing a concerto for the first time in public with orchestra. The idea in both cases. but especially with a bigger opponent which she will be facing, is to avoid getting hit and not to panic!
How American is that! I love it – bassoon and boxing. Makes me want to throw out an immigrant or two – JUST KIDDING!!! (I like having fruits and vegetables in my local markets). Good luck!
How utter stupid of me to presume: she’s a British bassoonist and boxer. I’m sorry she lost.
Scotland !
Yep. Dumber and dumber: I think I want to marry her – she could knock some sense into me and make me listen to her bassoon (seriously, I enjoy the bassoon. In fact, it’s pretty much only the bassoon concertos that I enjoy listening to by Vivaldi).
When Grandfather saw that the wolf was attacking Peter, he threw himself towards the wolf and knocked it out with a right hook. Cue bassoon solo.
Perfect! Right on cue.
got pounded
The other lady was bigger.
Huh? Where do you get this stuff? Why post wrongly and confidently about something so easily checked? Jeez louise. Rankin is ~3″ taller and a couple pounds heavier.
Forgive me. I stand corrected. I did read an article about this fight that said that Rankin was jumping from Junior Middleweight to Super Middleweight in order to take advantage of the opportunity of fighting Napoleon for the championship.
Go, Hanna, Go!
(From a proud bassoonist)
Perhaps Norman would like to follow this up with a profile of the fantastic young British soprano Charlotte Beament, who does non-contact boxing. She can’t take up regular boxing as injury could ruin her singing career.
As soon as I’ve mastered the solo in the Sacre I’ll take-up boxing as well, to contribute to the liberation of our gender!
Sally
Boxing is a horrible thing and often leaves people massively injured for life, especially with brain injuries. I wish it didn’t exist.
It’s nothing more that legalised violence
Agree.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29036831
muscles must be a thing — a bassoonist friend reports:
The second bassoonist in [local group] and second in [famous national group] for decades set the Pan American record in her class for weightlifting several years ago
I can’t imagine her wanting to do that except that the money was better than with bassoon playing.
And the money for female boxing can’t be very good.
If she were around to play in the premiere of Le Sacre, she could have taken care of those rioters before it got out of hand.
Good point. After the opening bassoon solo, there would be plenty of time to go out and tussle.
+1
Concussionist- a musical boxer.