THIS time last year Mexico’s Alejandra Ayala was on her way back to Tijuana having had a stay in Glasgow, Scotland inconveniently (and for a while unknowingly) extended.
Keen to get home, but keener still to remain alive, Ayala had fought Hannah Rankin on May 13, and then, following a bleed on the brain, found herself having to fight a far greater opponent in the subsequent hours, days, and weeks.
That fight, as is often the case, has now been prolonged. No longer simply hours, days and weeks, it is a fight that has stretched to months, and soon it will be years. Still, though, Ayala, a woman enlightened and enlivened for having cheated death, manages to force a smile.
“I’m quite happy,” she told from her home in Tijuana. “Ever since coming back and having this second opportunity in
