While women's boxing can loosely trace its beginnings to London in the 1720's, throughout the ensuing decades there were various exhibitions and scattered bouts until the 1950's. Then, several ...

Mark Brown/Getty Images Women's boxing is divided between 17 weight classes, from heavyweight to atomweight. The four major sanctioning bodies, WBO, IBF, WBA and WBC have champions in most of the ...

Mark Brown/Getty Images Women's boxing is divided between 17 weight classes, from heavyweight to atomweight. The four major sanctioning bodies, WBO, IBF, WBA and WBC have champions in most of the ...

Despite the thriving boxing community, Smart faces common challenges as a female boxer. “There’s a lingering stigma associated with women in boxing. People often question why a woman would ...

President Donald Trump is ready to take his fight against transgender athletes to the International Olympic Committee.

There was no organized intercollegiate boxing program in the nation for women until after Green graduated. And even when women’s boxing was made an Olympic sport in 2012, Green’s weight class ...

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Claressa Shields unanimously outpointed Danielle Perkins on Sunday night in the first undisputed heavyweight bout in women’s boxing to remain undefeated. Shields ...

THE Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) has announced a provisional squad of fifteen boxers who were to commence a non-residential training camp later yesterday in preparation for the IBA Women’s ...