It is one of the greatest feelings in the world to earn money and enjoy what one does for a living. Michelle Joy Phelps is a popular Boxing Correspondent and Youtuber who started her career in boxing by posting videos of herself discussing the sport.
Michelle Phelps has since risen to the limelight to become one of the few women to cover boxing. Asides being a correspondent for TOP Boxing Podcast via Sky Sports, she regularly contributes on her own Youtube channel and website. She has interviewed several big names in boxing including Floyd Mayweather, Oscar de la Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Tyson Fury just to mention a few.
Who is Michelle Joy Phelps?
Born in Riverside County, California, USA on the 26th of July 1984, Michelle grew up in a loving home environment with parents who are avid boxing fans. This must-have sparked something in the young Michelle who didn’t even set out for a career in front of a camera initially.
She attended Murrieta Valley High school before proceeding to a vocational school to learn to become an X-Ray technician. Unfortunately, she dropped out of the vocational school 3 months shy of graduation deciding to pursue something on television instead.
Michelle Phelps many careers before turning to acting and broadcasting.
Michelle Joy Phelps is a woman on a mission who wouldn’t let anyone get into her way. She worked as a medical assistant for 4 years before relocating to Los Angeles. She later went to school to be a licensed massage therapist. Michelle was also into modeling at one point in her life to pay her bills. She was featured in the December 2011 and February 2012 issue of MAXIM- a UK-based men’s magazine famous for its photography of attractive women. Some of her other modeling works include features on FHM, Open Your Eyes, and Atomic Dogg.
During the time she was modeling, she began to take up some acting roles on the side. She mostly featured in small roles and didn’t get her bigger roles until she began her sports career.
How Michelle got into sports reporting
Michelle Joy Phelps is from a family of avid boxing fans and would watch the sports with her family while growing up. Michelle fell in love with the sports at age 8 and has never fallen out of love with it since then.
Michelle started boxing reporting by launching her own channel on Total Sports Blog. She filmed her own video commentary about the matches she watched and uploaded to the site. She sank all of her personal savings into this endeavour. She soon began her personal YouTube channel and website utilizing all she had learned in the entertainment field including filming and editing.
As her popularity began to rise, her followership increased and she gained the attention of some media outlets. She was approached by ‘Knock Out Digest’ to cover some of their events. She accepted but continued to create her own content.
Michelle has since established herself in the male-dominated world of boxing. Her channel has become very successful (She currently boasts of over 220k subscribers and over 101 million views on her channel) and has given her the opportunity to travel the world with unrivaled access to the elites in the sport. She has since established herself as one of the top female boxing correspondents worldwide as she continues to cover the sports from various parts of the world like China, the USA, Russia, England, Scotland, Germany, Wales, Latvia, and Ireland.
She is the first in boxing to transition from YouTube to Television after she was privileged to host the ‘World Boxing Super Series TV Host Season 1 where she hosted LIVE Interviews on ITV Box Office and the worldwide feed.
Her knowledge of the sport has made Michelle ‘hot stuff’ in the world of boxing. Some of her correspondent gigs include Sirius XM’s U.K. Correspondent, U.K. Correspondent for DASH Radio’s Tatoo, and the Crew Morning show, Host of a Boxing Tournament series in the UK ‘Ultimate Boxxer’. Michelle Joy Phelps is also the U.S. Correspondent for the number one Boxing Podcast on iTunes- Toe2Toe which is produced by Sky Sports. She hosts a Q&A for Goldstar promotions and Showfighter where she interviews the fighters in front of a live audience.
Relationship/Marital status of Michelle Joy Phelps
Michelle isn’t the type to mince words when discussing any area of her life. She has openly admitted in interviews that she is currently not in a relationship because it is virtually impossible to date anyone she works with. Moreover, as she doesn’t do anything other than work, meeting someone has been pretty hard. Michelle also believes you almost have to choose between your job and love and she has since made her choice.
Complete profile of Michelle Joy Phelps
| Michelle Joy Phelps | |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Michelle Joy Phelps |
| Date of Birth | 26 July 1984 |
| Age | 40 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Birth place | Riverside County, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | White |
| Education | NA |
| Profession | Boxing Correspondent and Youtuber |
| Father | Nick Healey |
| Mother | Suzie Taylor |
| Siblings | 1 brother |
| Marital Status | Single |
| Spouse/Partner | NA |
| Boyfriend | NA |
| Kids | NA |
| Estimated Net Worth: | NA |
| Source of net worth | Youtuber and Boxing reporter |
| Height | NA |
| Weight | NA |
| Eye color | Dark Brown |
| Hair color | Dark Brown |
| Social media | Instagram |
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