Honeybee (2001)

American independent filmmaker Melvin James makes his feature debut with the lowbudget sports drama Honeybee Soap opera actress Senait Ashenafi stars as Brianna Dukes an upper middleclass college student who decides to drop out of school and become a professional boxer despite the fact that she is a complete novice Her upwardly mobile father Larry Dukes strongly disapproves of her decision However Brianna finds support from her trainer Pablo Rodriquez and starts boxing under the name Honeybee Eventually she has to prove herself in the big match against her rival champion lesbian fighter Rhonda Lady D Andrews