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 divisions and to make it ...

You'd forgive Tiah-Mai Ayton for being overwhelmed by a boxing world champion describing her as the future of the sport. But ...

Puerto Rican great Wilfred Benitez, who captured world titles in three weight classes throughout the course of his 17-year ...

BOXING has a new world champion and she’s a record breaker too. While Mexico’s Camila Zamorano has already proved her prowess ...

Katie Taylor, a world champion boxer from Ireland who won an Olympic gold medal in 2008 and who lives in Connecticut, will headline a women’s sports summit at UConn July 18. Beth Alford-Sullivan, the ...

Few athletes have earned a nickname as perfect as Cecilia 'The First Lady' Braekhus. She is the first woman in history to ...

(CNN) — Cecilia Brækhus embarked on her against-the-odds career in professional boxing almost two decades ago, and she’s hardly stopped fighting before or since. Along the way, her opponents have been ...

She is a petite female boxer from a country largely run by men, a Christian from a land dominated by Hindus and Muslims, a member of a hill tribe from a tiny Indian state bordering Burma. Mary Kom, or ...