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 ...

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 ...

Check all the current women's boxing champions for all four major organizations in each weight division.

Every day, twice at day, Shurretta 'Chiccn' Metcalf is at Texas Select Boxing in Garland, training for the fight of her life. "Everybody likes to call me 'Chiccn.' It's so funny, a boxer that's named ...

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 ...