How Germany's Zeina Nassar - who makes her pro debut on Wednesday - rewrote boxing's rules about fighting in a hijab.

As a boxing instructor, I find that many of my clients take up the sport for its mental health benefits: It can serve as an outlet for releasing anger, reducing stress and increasing self-esteem.

World Boxing have announced Imane Khelif will be prevented from competing unless she undergoes sex testing, following the gender row controversy at the Paris Olympics. Khelif was at the centre of a ...

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PARIS, Sept 4 - French female boxers have been barred from competing in the inaugural World Boxing Championships in Liverpool after failing to meet a deadline for a genetic sex test that the French ...

One of boxing's hottest women and best female fighters turned up earlier at a boxing gym that is surely still one of the best ever.

A Nigerian boxer has become the latest athlete to be barred from the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool for missing the deadline for gender tests. New rules in the sport mean there is strict ...

The innovative promotional company led by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian continues to make history by signing five new female fighters. Just weeks after promoting one of the most significant all-female ...

KATIE TAYLOR helped inspire a generation of female fighters – but her own boxing career only started by pure chance. The Irish icon quite literally fought for women to compete at the Olympics after ...

United Kingdom boxer Ebonie Cotton is going viral after she suffered a wardrobe malfunction during her weigh-in.