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The healthy state of women's boxing in the UK is part of Couch's legacy. For her, being inducted into the Hall of Fame is a final vindication for the battles she endured just to box, as she did for a 14-year career which ended in 2008.
"I still can't really believe it now. It's amazing," she said. "It made up for all the hard times really, I think.
"It was just thinking to yourself well you got the MBE for services to boxing and now you're in the Hall of Fame, even though they wouldn't let you box, it's sort of like a victory.
"I was trying to tell everybody all those years ago that women's boxing was big," she added. "They just wouldn't listen.
"I was right all along."