India boxing great MC Mary Kom, who won her sixth World Championships gold in Delhi at the age of 35 last month, revealed yesterday that she struggles to get good sparing partners as no women boxers come forward to help her.

"It's very difficult to get partners (for practice). We don't have partners and there are no women boxers to help us. When the names of boxers were officially announced for the World Championships, those who not get a chance, ran away. They are interested in only their performances.