A new sports league in Philadelphia is fighting to give boxing a makeover. Instead of two fighters going 12 rounds, this league is doubling the number of rounds, but there's a catch: it's a team style ...

Rare is the occasion when two current lineal champions step in the ring to face one another. It’s an even rarer occurrence when the lighter weight fighter’s title is the one at stake. Such is the case ...

Ruslan Provodnikov and Chris Algieri were not just opponents, but opposites as well. They were so different in so many ways, several of which strongly suggested that Provodnikov would win when they ...

Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, the Long Count, million-dollar gates, and how the 1920s transformed prizefighting into America's biggest sport.

Styles make fights’ is one of boxing’s most overused and intellectually lazy clichés. It survives not because it explains anything, but because it offers ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Pfc. Sativa James entered her first boxing gym at 7 years old, tagging along as her brothers tried the sport. She begged her dad to try it, too. With a small lie to make James a year ...