(OCT 3) Boxing Fans have had the pleasure of  "sightings" of top-notch former female boxer Corinne "Goose"  Van Ryck De Groot, who at 10-0-0, hung up the gloves to seek adventure outside the ring!

Mary Ann Owen of BILV told WBAN,  "Yesterday,  I went to see a Kevin Costner Movie called, The Guardian, and to my surprise former boxer Corinne Van Ryck de Groot had a speaking part in the movie.  She portrayed a bartender, broke up a fight----swinging a bat at sailors who were fighting in her bar.

In addition, in the August 2006, Rock and Sock Productions,  All-women's card in Lake Tahoe, Corinne was the co-ringside commentator with Arnie Rosenthal.

Another surprising "sighting" was when she was spotted in a competition, on the NBC-TV reality show "The Next Action Star". She was pitted against 13 rivals for a $25,000 cash prize and for a role in "Bet Your Life", a made-for-TV action movie that screened after the show ended in August 2004.  Corinne won the women's competition and the part, which cast her as a bounty hunter who chases and then aids a cab driver who becomes prey in a rich man's urban hunting game. (The cab driver was played by her fellow winner Sean Carrigan, also a boxer, and the villain by Billy Zane.)

Corrine had told WBAN in one interview in the past, "My whole thing is I know that I can fight well. But outside the ring I also realize boxing is a business. People outside of it look at it as entertainment. So I make sure I'm in the best shape I can, I want to look good physically. I want to win, but I also want people to see there's someone who takes care of themselves, conscious of the way I look - boxing is such a brutal sport, it's a man's sport - so I want people to see you can have a beautiful woman and a beautiful personality, see something pretty, who at the same time who has worked hard and can step in the ring and put on a good show and be just as good as any man out there. You need to look good, you need to feel good, you need to be happy, you need to be healthy and you need to be skilled to step in the ring. I've got this opportunity, I'm going to prove to the people women can fight, that we put a lot of work in."

When Corrine was actively boxing, she lived up to every statement she made as a boxer---she is now proving herself outside the ring in the same fashion.