Gina Rodriguez is one badass lady, and she knows exactly where she gets her no-nonsense personality from.
On Wednesday, the “Jane the Virgin” star got a bit nostalgic and shared a throwback video on Instagram of her father refereeing one of boxer Ronald Weaver's matches. Rodriguez said she trained with Weaver in New Orleans last summer at the New Orleans Boxing Club.
“This gem just came up, the time MY DADDY-O referred his [Weaver's] match and my dad almost devoured him,” the actress wrote in the caption. “Old footage of my pops is the BEST!!! Where I get my badassery from, don't mess with a Rodriguez!”
Rodriguez has been vocal about how boxing was a huge part of her life thanks to her father's career as a referee. In an April interview with Women's Health magazine she praised the sport for giving her inner and outer strength.
“My father was a referee for boxing, so I grew up boxing since I was three,” she told the magazine. “[The] strength – inner strength – the idea that you can protect yourself and never have to use it, the idea that it doesn't matter what size I am, inside is so strong. Mind over matter is so strong. It's something you learn in the ring, you can't give up. To me, it's interesting, I feel like boxing is very much like acting, except you're just fighting yourself.”
Watch old footage of Rodriguez's dad in the video above.
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