Bonnie Canino, the Women’s International Boxing Federation (WIBF) featherweight (126 pounds) champion out of South Florida, flew to New Orleans in March 1997 to defend her title against a young Irish ...

Born in Paramaribo, Suriname, before relocating to the Netherlands in 1977, Sjauw initially excelled in martial arts before ...

Nairobi — Fatuma Zarika left for Germany last night to face Ina Menzer in a Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) featherweight world title bout on Saturday. Zarika, 21, has fought 13 times, ...

When I started exploring this topic I knew I had to reach out to the boxers if I wanted the real story from inside. Of course as with any writer in order to do that, you have to knock on doors and ...

Nairobi — Kenya's Fatuma Zarika is set to fight Eva Evanova of the Czech Republic for the vacant Women's International Boxing Federation bantamweight belt in Nairobi on October 29. Zarika's promoter, ...

Melissa “Mighty” McMorrow pulled off women’s boxing’s upset of the year Wednesday with a majority decision win over previously unbeaten WBA/WBO/WIBF flyweight champion Susi “Killer Queen” Kentikian in ...

Ghana’s first female boxing champion, Abigail Quartey, has opened up about the hard work behind her Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) title success, which involved four hours of daily ...

Hosted by Victor Migalchan, California LIVE Podcast, one of the nationwide leading platforms for powerful, purpose-driven conversations, proudly shines a spotlight on the legends of women’s boxing at ...

An 82-year-old former fighter is among the Hull women boxers photographed for a new exhibition. 'Girls in the Ring' is part of the Cultural Olympiad and has been put together by Hull-born photo ...

ACCRA, Ghana — When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer – an unusual choice for a young woman in a working-class neighborhood of Ghana’s capital of Accra – ...

CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) — A look at the 13 people to be inducted June 14, 2020 into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum: MODERN (last bout no earlier than 1989) MEN BERNARD HOPKINS: ...