IBU Nina carefully covered her daughter's fingers with tape. The veiled woman then put on the boxing gloves on her daughter. And, in the blink of an eye her daughter, Herliana Ali, 20, turned into a female boxer like Layla Ali, the daughter of the legendary Muhammad Ali.

When Herliana climbed into the ring, her mother's eyes did not leave her daughter. Fighting in the 52-kilogram class, last Tuesday evening, Herliana, representing Jakarta, fac