Ultimate pint-size fighter
Feb 24 2008
by Eleanor Gregson, Sunday Sun
I’m no Lara Croft, and the prospect of taking on the North’s only professional “ultimate” female fighter did not fill me with confidence.
But after one look at martial arts supremo Lisa Newton — who stands at 5ft 1in and weighs just seven and a half stone — I thought I had nothing to worry about. I was wrong.
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