Women’s boxing has gone from hidden on undercards to main eventing big events. Lucas Ketelle and historian Malissa Smith rank ...

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 ...

Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., was referring to a USA Boxing policy change that allows trans athletes to compete under strict conditions. USA Boxing said it oversees national competitions, but does ...

Imane Khelif has begun a legal fight against rules banning her from boxing against women unless she can prove she is biologically female. The Olympic welterweight champion has filed an appeal with the ...

Boxing is not only a full body workout, it’s empowering. “I feel so free afterwards. Nothing can hold me…that’s what I love about boxing,” Coach Preem said. Aprecia Preem Cabey, Coach Preem, wants ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif will not be competing as expected in an upcoming World Boxing women's competition until completing a mandatory sex test, the organization announced on Friday. "Imane Khelif ...

They’re hoping for bigger paydays as a result of their groundbreaking headline bout at Madison Square Garden. By Remy Tumin Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali. Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson. Deontay ...

When Nathifa Wadie Qasim was a young girl back in Sinjar, in Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate, her school had a punching bag that was used by male students for boxing practice. Nathifa punched it almost ...

When teenage Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided to become a professional boxer – an unlikely choice for a young woman in a working class neighborhood in Ghana – her family begged her to stop training.