Ebanie Bridges seeks revival at Sheffield's Ingle gym
Ebanie Bridges has switched trainers and gyms as she tries to reboot her boxing career.
The high-profile bantamweight will be training alongside her partner Kell Brook, at the Ingle gym in Wincobank.
Until recently, the 39-year-old Aussie had been under Daz Medcalf's wing at Sheffield's Kings gym.
But Ebanie wants a fresh start after losing her comeback fight against Alexis Araiza Mones in January, which followed a defeat to Miyo Yoshida in her previous bout in 2023.
In the last few days, she has been training with Dom Ingle and Kid Galahad.
"I've always had a lot of respect for Dominic because of what he's done with a lot of fighters" she said.
"I would have liked to come to Dom probably originally when I first came to Sheffield; but it was probably a bit too much for me and Kell in each other's face all the time, and then at training.
"I think we need that space. We're at a point, and I think Kell wants me to do well as well and he knows that Dom's the best for it.
"It was just the obvious choice really like so I'm excited.
"I want to become a world champion again" the former IBF title holder told Boxing King Media.
"And I feel like Dom can take me there. I really believe that."
Ebanie, who has a son with Kell, likened changing trainers to having a new boyfriend.
"It's like you have to build that rapport up again. You've got to make sure that you guys get along. Are you going to click? Is it going to work?
"I've done a bit of chopping and changing since coming to the UK it was a bit of a fear of like are we going to get along?"
However an Ingle training camp in Fuerteventura had been successful and that made her optimistic that the chemistry would work in the gym.
She said she didn't want her style to be changed, rather it to be developed and refined.
Dom, who drove Brook to world title glory, is clearly looking forward to the journey.
"Sometimes it's good as a coach trying to prove that you can get somebody back to winning ways and avenge a loss and that's kind of the incentive with this" he said.
He pointed out that she'd have to regroup after back-to-back losses, but "she sells well, and she can fight."
Strength and aggression will only take you so far though and Ingle reminded her fans that she absorbed some heavy punches against former Golden Gloves champion in Alexis.
"What we're going to try and work on is obviously avoiding those shots and getting hers off even quicker.
"So, there's just a couple of tweaks," said Ingle.
"We're not going to change her a style because, you know, she's comfortable having a brawl and having a fight, but it needs to be interspersed with a couple of little bits of boxing to get her into the position to be able to firing them shots off, not just stood in the pocket all the time winging away trying to overpower people because, there's only ever going to be one winner that way and it's going to be the toughest and the strongest.
"And she's seen in the last fight somebody kind of out-muscled her in that one. So, you've got to have a little bit more in your repertoire...she needs to adjust slightly."
One ambition is to avenge the loss to Shannon Courtenay in London, five years ago.
First, there could be a tune-up fight on April 17 - the date of a GBM Sports "Heist" show in Sheffield.
And "then look for a bigger fight down the line," said the trainer.