As a boxing instructor, I find that many of my clients take up the sport for its mental health benefits: It can serve as an outlet for releasing anger, reducing stress and increasing self-esteem.

Inside the walls of Babyface Boxing Training Center, the first lesson girls learn in the ring is that they are limitless. The Pacifica-based gym, owned by Boxing Hall of Famer Blanca Gutierrez, is ...

ACCRA, Ghana — When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer – an unusual choice for a young woman in a working-class neighborhood of Ghana's capital of Accra – ...

The first time I met Ms Efasha Kamarudin, she was breastfeeding her 11-month-old daughter at a Bedok Mall restaurant – the perfect image of a gentle mother. The next time we met, she was pummelling a ...