Recent boxing activities have shown impressive following of the sport. Both professional as well as celebrities are impacting positively on boxing and its popularity. However, medical science indicate ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games, head to our latest updates. Women’s boxing is at the center of the latest Olympics controversy as critics take ...

Boxing has always thrived on rivalries. From Muhammad Ali’s thunderous all-time trilogy with Joe Frazier to Manny Pacquiao’s epic four-fight series with Juan Manuel Marquez, these weren’t just ...

The third of a five-part series. We reached out to lifelong boxing insiders who have various skills and experience in the industry. In this installment: What up-and-comer are they following and why?

Boxing is a whimsically old-fashioned sport. Feuds are settled in fights, traditions are revered, and ageing faces run the show. Fifty years since their heydays promoting Muhammad Ali, the ...

When Bernard Hopkins was my age, he was not only still boxing professionally, but he was in fact winning light heavyweight unification fights. So I have no excuse. But the sad fact is, I am washed. A ...

LAS VEGAS — Media and fans raised cameras and phones to get shots of superstar fighters Terence Crawford and Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, who gestured to the crowd while walking toward boxing’s biggest ...

KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Judex Tshipanda, 71, sits on a wall outside this Kinshasa's Tata Raphaël Stadium, recalling the day that has gone down as one of the most memorable in this ...