Chloe Grech: “I want to become a world champion.”

Chloe Grech: “I want to become a world champion.”

Sometimes, the biggest fight for a fighter is to actually get fights. Chloe Grech has experienced that in recent times. A frustrating 2025 has given way to renewed hope for the new year. Those frustrations haven’t given way to thoughts of walking away, only a firm resilience to reach the very pinnacle of her sport.

The 30-year-old started her fighting life properly around nine years ago, the Sydney-born light-flyweight told FightPost. But it was very much a family affair. “I started boxing seriously right before I turned 21, and that’s when I had my first amateur fight. I’ve always been around it from a young age. My dad is a boxing trainer, and my eldest brother is undefeated as a pro.

“I also have another brother, and he had a couple of fights. Then there’s me, who’s the youngest, and I decided to take it up, and I have never looked back. My dad never forced me to do it. I guess from watching from a young age, that’s what made me want to get into it.”

It is a way of life that has fully consumed the Australian. “Now boxing is my whole life, I can’t imagine my life without it or any other way. It’s just become a part of who I am. It has given me so much from the people I have met to the discipline and drive it has given me. Boxing gives you so much, and I’m so glad I chose this path. It has given me the resilience and strength to overcome day-to-day obstacles and just change my whole mindset.”

“Outside of boxing, I don’t do too much besides spending time with my family and close friends, just going out to eat and enjoying life, I guess,” Grech adds. “Everything outside of boxing still somehow has to do with boxing, whether it’s fight nights or watching some big fights on the weekend on TV.”

The amateur career was brief. Fourteen fights with ten victories, with one exhibition contest. It was a serious knee injury that limited her amatuer run to just those fourteen fights. “As for my amateur career, I didn’t have that many fights. Not as many as I would have liked. I also had to take one year without competing since I did my ACL. I decided not to do the surgery and strengthen it up instead, and then it gave way on me during a spar, and that’s when I had no choice but to get the surgery done. I was out for two and a half years. The recovery took me one year and a bit, then another to get back into my training and everything. That’s when I decided to turn pro and just go for it after my return from my surgery.”

Grech turned pro in 2023 with a win over Sarah Linton, but her professional career has so far only amassed five fights in total. “My pro career has definitely been a challenge,” Grech relayed to me. “However, I know this is what I’m made for. It’s been hard to get match-ups because of my weight. I’m naturally a light-flyweight. But at the start of my pro career, I had two fights at a catch weight, and the girls were just a lot bigger than me. You definitely have to sacrifice at the beginning, and then eventually it will all pay off.”

“I want to stay as active as I can for 2026,” Grech goes on to say. “Since last year didn’t go the best after my last fight with Mishelle Macatangay, which ended in a head clash then a rematch was set and then my opponent had an accident making weight and I didn’t get to fight. So that was really disheartening to put all that work in and for it to end like that. So I have just been trying to get matched up since November trusting in God’s timing.”

Grech remains unbeated, and ambitious. At 30, she has time on her side. You sense 2026 is a pivotal year for her. After a stop-start beginning to her life as a professional fighter, activity will be key for her over the next twelve months or so. But the dream of reaching the very top remains. “I want to become a world champion in my weight division and to get on a big promotion. That is the goal.”