But Quartey persisted. And last year, at age 27, she became Ghana's first female world boxing champion and the first woman to travel the world as a member of the West African nation's national team.

Khelif’s victory generated new-found interest among Algerian girls and women in the male-dominated sport. Read more at ...

In a gym nestled in the Kabylia region of northern Algeria, 15-year-old Cerine Kessal punches relentlessly into a bag, her ...

"There were women in boxing before I ventured into boxing," she said ... In Ghana, she said, "female boxers do not receive ...

“There were women in boxing before I ventured into boxing ... “female boxers do not receive much support and it is difficult to keep training." 'Big deal’ for everyone Sarah Lotus ...

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 ...

While the win will take Price's stock to another level, the whole event at London's Royal Albert Hall was a superb show of women's boxing. There was a sense of nostalgia as boxing returned to the ...

Lauren Price could become the Oleksandr Usyk of women’s boxing, suggests trainer Rob McCracken. Price, like Usyk, is an Olympic gold medallist. As an international amateur, like Usyk ...

The women throwing punches as if they were Floyd ... exercise that indulges a lot of swiftness,” he adds. Because boxing training uses many of body joints in full range of motion, it improves ...

The Sheffield United fan believes the profile previously enjoyed by women fighters ... minute despite long training camps and there had been a "definite shift in female boxing in the last year ...

Nicola (6-1-0) has been training hard for her 10-round ... had been a "definite shift in female boxing in the last year or two." The profile of women on big cards was no longer as pronounced.

“It [women’s boxing] has certainly slowed down over ... citing “five or six young girls training inside the Mike Tyson Boxing Club”. The only complication she encountered was regarding ...