Beaver, or Brettlyn Neal as she is otherwise known, has stacked up 191 fights to date and is undefeated in the boxing ring since she started fighting for Fred Brophy in 2010.

However she has not had a fight since she went up against a male competitor in Mount Isa.

Beaver wants to rack up her 200^th fight in Birdsville where she started her illustrious career so is canvassing for worthy opponents. 

She is the only woman in Brophy’s boxing troupe.

Beaver said she started boxing for Brophy in Birdsville after she won two fights against the tent as a competitor.

“We were sitting around in Birdsville and someone said something about Justin Bieber and I misheard them thinking they said something more like Beaver.”

“They had actually said ‘you need to get this Beaver as famous as you can’.”

“So when I got up to fight I remember saying Beaver instead of my real name and it’s stuck ever since.

“I came back the third night to fight and that’s when Fred said, ‘No you fight for me now’.”

“I’ve got a little furry Beaver mascot which I’ve kept since I started boxing, sometimes Fred will say ‘show us your Beaver’ and I’ll have it in my pants. Or he’ll say something like, ‘She’s got hairs on her legs that would spear a rat,’” she said.

Beaver has had 11 fights against male opponents in her illustrious career, as part of a tag team and one on one.

“Fred has always said if we can’t get her a Sheila we’ll get her a bloke.”

“For the last fight the guy didn't actually get matched against me, he was matched against someone else but Fred said ‘No, bring in the Beaver’, so the competitor didn't know he was fighting me until his gloves were on.

“Once I hit him pretty hard three times, he started to fight back,” she said.

Beaver said there was no-one to fight after she took on that fella in the ring even though there had been a few challengers wanting to have a go

“But they changed their minds saying “I go too hard.”

But there’s another side to Beaver – a softer side.

In her free time she works in remote communities training participants in a Community Development Program to ensure their fitness for employment.

“When I’m not in the ring, I volunteer to train youth in a boxing program,” she said.  

The program incorporates alcohol and drug awareness; and enhances the overall positive health and wellbeing of individual young people which ultimately benefits the entire community.

Brophy's Boxing Tent will have two shows at the Frontier Festival at the Gregory this weekend and then will head to the Birdsville Races on September 1-2.