Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Local author, naturalist and former boxer Vanessa Chakour is leading a women’s boxing ...

From small club shows and Toughwoman tournaments to sold-out arenas and streaming-era super fights, women’s boxing has gone from novelty to global draw. Along the way, a handful of fighters didn’t ...

Tonight, the fiercest rivalry in women’s boxing returns to where it all began — Madison Square Garden. Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano III is the centerpiece of the first all-women’s professional ...

One by one they shadow-boxed their way into the darkened Excel Arena, spotlights trained on them as if they were heavyweight champions of the world. Six contenders, fighting their way to three history ...

Women's boxing is divided between 17 weight classes, from heavyweight to atomweight. The four major sanctioning bodies, WBO, ...

The addition of women’s boxing to the Olympic docket kicked down one of the final gender barriers in the Games. The International Olympic Committee's vote to add the sport gave women, for the first ...