NFB's 'The Boxing Girls of Kabul' Acquired by In Demand

Etan Vlessing The U.S. distributor picked up the Hot Docs documentary about young Afghan women learning boxing skills in Afghanistan's national stadium, where only recently women were executed by the Taliban. read more

What Boxing Writing Can Teach Us About Everything: A.J. Liebling On Moore-Marciano [Boxing]

# boxing Between the Victorian era and the Sixties, boxing was a regular and prominent feature of American life. Knowing something about the fights—being good with your hands, or maintaining an opinion about the welterweight division or fixed bouts or how to beat a southpaw—was a very common piece of equipment in the toolbox of American cultural competence, especially the section of it devoted ...

India's champion boxing mum eyes Olympic gold

The Indian heat is searing in the gym when the power goes out. A physio hurries over with an emergency lamp and boxing star MC Mary Kom resumes battering the punchbag.

Learning the ropes: Junior Olympics boxers compete in Elyria

ELYRIA — It wasn’t the amateur boxing debut Lorain’s Vance Cheers had envisioned, but the 10-year-old was already thinking about the next time he gets into the ring for a bantam fight. Cheers, who has trained at Freddie’s Boxing Club in Lorain for the past five months, lost a three-round decision to Trayvon Wilson of Cory Fight Club in a Junior Olympics tournament semifinal Saturday night at St ...

Gym moves to bigger location

LAWRENCE — On a recent tour, Art McCabe quickly discovered kids are learning about more than boxing at the Canal Street gym, run by Bugsy and Daisy Martinez. "All of a sudden, this kid starts tugging Daisy's dress, shows her his math homework and says 'Is this OK?'" said McCabe, a city community development manager.