From small club shows and Toughwoman tournaments to sold-out arenas and streaming-era super fights, women’s boxing has gone from novelty to global draw. Along the way, a handful of fighters didn’t ...

AIBA has appointed eight ambassadors for next month’s Women’s World Boxing Championships in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana ©AIBA Ambassadors of the event, which is scheduled to take place from May 19 to ...

One by one they shadow-boxed their way into the darkened Excel Arena, spotlights trained on them as if they were heavyweight champions of the world. Six contenders, fighting their way to three history ...

Katie Taylor and Claressa Shields have each played their part in transforming boxing. Malissa Smith is promoting her upcoming book The Promise of Women’s Boxing – available on June 4 – and two of the ...

Boxing shamefully underrepresents women, having only been legally sanctioned late in the 20th century and rarely — if ever — aired by the two major boxing networks, HBO and Showtime. This past summer, ...