Uganda, April 20 -- When Hellen Baleke got a bye to the semifinals of the 2019 African Boxing Confederations Championships without breaking sweat, she instantly made news as the first Ugandan woman to win a medal in an international boxing event.

But the boxer quickly faded into oblivion like a thin vapory cloud, even before the tournament ended after Morocco's Mardi Khadija stopped her in the first round of the middleweight semifinal bout.

"Hellen was no match for that girl," one of the boxers who witnessed the fight in Rabat told us.

Since then, Baleke, a ghetto hustler who was also outclassed by world and Olympic champion Claressa Shields at the 2014 World Women's Boxing Championship in Jeju Korea, retreated to Katanga slums, where ...