Robson Conceicao, perhaps Brazil’s most accomplished boxer ever, secured the 2016 Olympic gold medal in Rio and currently holds the WBC junior lightweight title. A controversial decision cast a shadow ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lightweight Robson Conceicao won Brazil's first Olympic boxing gold medal Tuesday night, delighting a frenzied home crowd with a clear unanimous decision over France's Sofiane ...

As part of a huge show called “Boxing For You V”, televised by four networks in Brazil, Esquiva Falcao (23-0, 15 KO’s), WBA #5, IBF #8 and WBC #10 in the 160 pound rankings, had no problems in ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) YOUNG BOXER, MARIANGELA PEREIRA DA SILVA, SAYING: (SOUNDBITE BEGINS WITH SHOT OF MARIANGELA PEREIRA DA SILVA BOXING) "I imagine myself with a gold medal around my neck, in ...

A legend of MMA is making the switch to the boxing ring. On Wednesday, current Bellator featherweight champion Cris Cyborg announced on that she will make her professional boxing debut on Sept. 25.

LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Middleweight Esquiva Falcao Florentino ended Brazil's long wait for an Olympic boxing finalist in London's Docklands on Friday then watched his brother Yamaguchi fall ...

SAO PAULO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - When 13-year-old Mariangela Pereira da Silva was accosted by a strange man near her home earlier this year she was frightened. She felt she had to do something and a bar ...

Robson Conceicao has made history on his home turf by becoming the first Brazilian boxer to take home a gold medal. Conceicao defeated France’s Sofiane Ourmiha in the lightweight boxing final with a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Robson Conceicao couldn't step up onto a medal podium without thinking about where his climb began. His mind is never far from his impoverished neighborhood, where he discovered ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Robson Conceicao couldn’t step up onto a medal podium without thinking about where his climb began. His mind is never far from his impoverished neighborhood, where he discovered ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lightweight Robson Conceicao won Brazil’s first Olympic boxing gold medal Tuesday night, delighting a frenzied home crowd with a clear unanimous decision over France’s Sofiane ...