The fighters at La Femme Fight Night, Milwaukee's first all-female boxing match, talk about how boxing is more than just a sport to them.

Andrea Girón, 13, eyes her opponent, 12-year-old Taylor “Too Tuff” Hill, during a boxing match at Shirley C. Heim Middle School in Stafford, Virginia on Aug. 16. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) ...

Cecilia Brækhus embarked on her against-the-odds career in professional boxing almost two decades ago, and she’s hardly stopped fighting before or since. Along the way, her opponents have been many ...

Carla Jade transformed her career in combat sports, moving from her former role as a ring card girl to becoming a ...

Sebastian Fundora scores a buzzer-beating knockout to retain his WBC title. Sebastian Fundora scored a buzzer-beating knockout of Ermal Hadribeaj to retain his WBC super welterweight championship, but ...

KARACHI, Pakistan — Sweat trickling down her face, aspiring teenage boxer Hoorain Zahra works on a punch combination, eager to follow in the footsteps of her idol Aliya Soomro. Soomro, 21, made ...

PARIS (Reuters) -French female boxers have been barred from competing at the inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool after failing to meet a deadline for a genetic sex test that the French ...

There is no hint of envy in Nicola Adams when she walks into the UK’s first female-led boxing gym in Calderdale and sees the dozens of young girls and women pounding the punch bags. Only pride.

When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer – an unusual choice for a young woman in a working-class neighborhood of Ghana's capital of Accra – her family ...

KATIE TAYLOR AND Amanda Serrano -- ESPN's No. 2 and No. 3-ranked women's pound-for-pound fighters-- will collide in a highly anticipated trilogy fight, headlining an all-women's boxing card at New ...