LOGAN SQUARE — Beads of sweat linger on Olivia Curry’s face, her hair falling out if its ponytail, as she sits on the side of the boxing ring and catches her breath.

Curry is cooling off after a recent 30-minute, 10-round sparring session with other elite women boxers flown in by her coach to prepare her for a world title fight this month.

“I get nervous, but I feel confident about the actual fight once the bell rings,” Curry said.

Curry, 35, is a professional boxer out of Unanimous Boxing Gym, 2764 N. Milwaukee Ave., who is vying for her first two world titles in a unified middleweight championship match against Australia’s Kaye Scott Sep. 19 in Detroit.

At 160 pounds and taller than some other fighters at 5-foot-9, Curry is excited to be elevating women’s boxing. She’s even more than

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