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Meet the feisty great granny who's found a love for boxing aged 91

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At 91, Elsie Humphrey is a great-granny you don't want to cross.

In her ninth decade of life the feisty Melburnian has found a new love for boxing.

Mid-morning in the outer-western suburb of Melton, you'll find Elsie at the HitFit boxing studio with daughter Sharon.

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Elsie Humphrey

Meet the feisty great granny who's found a love for boxing aged 91  A Current Affair

It's here she first found her passion for the punching bag, after Sharon entered a boxing challenge at the gym a year ago.

"[Elsie] said to me one day ...'I've never seen you look this happy for a long time ...what's going on down there?" Sharon told A Current Affair.

"I said come down and have a look."

HitFit's Darcy Ellis says the boxing gran is helping challenge stereotypes related to the sport.

Mid-morning in the outer-western suburb of Melton, you'll find Elsie at the HitFit boxing studio with daughter Sharon.

Mid-morning in the outer-western suburb of Melton, you'll find Elsie at the HitFit boxing studio with daughter Sharon. A Current Affair

"We're probably one of the few boxing gyms in Australia, if not the world, that has more female members as opposed to male members," Ellis said.

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"We do want to break that stigma that you don't have to be a macho man to do something like boxing."

And Elsie isn't planning on taking off the gloves any time soon.

"Coming here with such lovely people, you feel you're wanted - you know what I mean?" Elsie said.

"I just punch a bag and that's it. I said, if I punch it to bits, I'm not paying for it!"

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