NEW ORLEANS — Who says that girls can’t pack a mean punch? In the 7th Ward, there’s a club called the “Spartan Boxing Club,” and it’s run by experienced coaches from the boxing world. One of the ...

Kenyan photographer Mia Collis' first impression of Boxgirls, a Nairobi program that teaches young girls to box, was one of a "cacophony of sound." Inside a tiny office in the heart of the dense ...

Hi, my name is Jesselyn “JessZilla” Silva. Yeah, that’s my name. So, when I first started to box, kids inside my school were telling me, “Oh, girls aren’t supposed to be boxing. And it’s only a men’s ...

Rita Bullwinkel knows a thing or two about the human body and the abuse it can take. In an interview with The Paris Review, the author, who played water polo in college, talked about the beating her ...

Paloma Campos (left) and Mónica Álvarez going toe-to-toe. Raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women. (The female boxer violates this ...

Kira Makogonenko is a 9-year-old boxer from Ukraine, and she's a total boss. While most boxers train for boxing without a blindfold (because sight is important when you don't want to get punched in ...

My dad received death threats because of me two years ago. The threat was serious, and I had to stop training for a whole month. But our coach came to my father and promised he would personally ...