ABC News: Luke Bowden
)Meet Krystina 'Mousey' Jacobs.
She's 26 years old, her favourite food is McDonalds, and in her words she "loves to fight".
She could also become Australia's newest world champion boxer should she defeat Victorian Lorrinda Webb for the WIBA Super Featherweight title in Hobart next weekend.
As for the nickname, Jacobs doesn't know where 'Mouse' originated — but she knows for sure it isn't related to her right jab.
"I've been called it my whole life. I'm not sure. I really don't know."
Perhaps she was labelled 'Mouse' due to her unassuming and reserved demeanour.
There's really not much to her. No epic escape story, no rags-to-riches yarn, no tale of redemption.
Again, in her words, she simply just loves to fight.
Maybe that's what happens when you're raised in Hobart's traditionally rough-and-tumble northern suburbs.
The Tasmanian tradie took up boxing as a 12-year-old, and her rise — like her jab — was swift, partly because of her talent, and partly because as a female she simply ran out of opponents of which to dispatch.
At the time, Tasmania's female boxing talent pool didn't run too deep.
However, Mousey was no big fish in a small pond, and soon she was winning national gold medals as an amateur.
Four more Australian titles would follow. Before long, turning professional became the only way forward.
"The training now is full on. I get up early, go to training, go to work, go to training again after that and go home
"I love the grind. I hate the running. But it has to be done"
As the saying often goes in women's sport: you can't be what you can't see.
And while a world title might be the summit for any boxer, Mousey's ultimate victory may be won through the legacy she's quietly — and maybe unknowingly — building.
At her home club, there's a growing number of young boxers, who have attached themselves to Tasmania's first female professional, and who wish to follow in her footsteps.
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)"She's shown me heaps of little tricks, and just how to persist. She's shown me what I want to be when I'm older," 13-year-old Ella Crosswell said.
Like Mousey, she is is quickly running out of other girls to touch gloves with.
"I never really had any other girls to train with until I got a bit older and finding girls to fight was hard. There's a lot more girls now," she said.
"I want to do what Mousey's doing."
ABC News: Luke Bowden
)A win in Hobart next Saturday would make Krystina Jacobs Tasmania's first world boxing champion since Daniel Geale retained his IBF Middleweight belt against Anthony Mundine in 2013.
But even a loss won't be the end of the world for Mousey, whose growing number of underlings will still look up to her.
"It's good they can look up to me and I can show them what they can achieve when they are dedicated," she said.
"They're always watching me, so I have to do it for them as well."
