Record number of female fighters step in the ring at Battle of the Badges FDNY boxing match
They’re taking a swing at the gender gap! A record number of female boxers will fight in an annual FDNY boxing event — including three New York brawlers who will duke it out at Madison Square Garden ...
Algerian girls take up boxing after Imane Khelif’s Olympic gold
Khelif’s victory generated new-found interest among Algerian girls and women in the male-dominated sport. Read more at ...
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They told her women shouldn’t box. Now she’s Ghana’s first female world champion
Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey, 28, shows a photo of her match against Sangeeta Birdie from Britain, which earned her the World ...
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Women's boxing champions list
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 ...
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Imane Khelif sparks knockout change for women’s boxing in Algeria
In a gym nestled in the Kabylia region of northern Algeria, 15-year-old Cerine Kessal punches relentlessly into a bag, her ...
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Caroline Dubois: Women’s boxing should have 12 rounds of three minutes, like men’s
That fight is part of an all-women’s boxing event, “Unstoppable”, at the Royal Albert Hall, headlined by welterweights Natasha Jonas and Lauren Price. Here 24-year-old Dubois talks to ...
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Taylor and Serrano are getting paid, but what about the rest of women's boxing?
The rematch will introduce women's boxing to a significantly larger audience ... me from putting the right amount of effort into my training." Both have struggled to stay active due to a lack ...
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Ghana's first female world boxing champion smashes barriers
"There were women in boxing before I ventured into boxing," she said ... In Ghana, she said, "female boxers do not receive ...