ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — 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 ...

OBC Athletics has started a Women’s Intro to Boxing program every Monday at 135 E Bridge St here in Oswego. Their main goal is to help fight the stigma against ...

Every day, twice at day, Shurretta ‘Chiccn’ Metcalf is at Texas Select Boxing in Garland, training for the fight of her life. “Everybody likes to call me ‘Chiccn.’ It’s so funny, a boxer that’s named ...

Before she entered the ring for her first fight, 13-year-old Andrea Girón loosened up by jumping in place, shaking her arms and doing neck rolls. She and coach Freddy Ramirez slipped through the ropes ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Women boxers training for a world championship starting in the Indian capital this week are wearing surgical masks, scarves and even T-shirts across their mouths as the level of ...