Under the night sky, groups of children practiced Mantis Boxing after school. Their instructor, the lean and energetic Liu Xin with a neat short haircut, demonstrated the moves, punching with ...

“I wanna see you shift your weight. Point your back foot, try to roll your shoulder up to your chin,” senior Merek Johnson said. First-year Haley Pogachefsky adjusted her motions to follow Johnson’s ...

Leo Ortiz, 12, of Orland Park started boxing when he was 6 years old as a way to work out his energy. Since then, he’s competed in six national championships and has achieved high rankings in the ...

One of the biggest stories in the boxing world right now is what Terence Crawford is going to do next after his dominant unanimous decision win against Canelo Alvarez last month. With that win, ...

When Nathifa Wadie Qasim was a young girl back in Sinjar, in Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate, her school had a punching bag that was used by male students for boxing practice. Nathifa punched it almost ...

Basheer Abdullah, center, head coach for the United States' men's and women's boxing teams, leads a practice session at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. The opening ceremonies for the 2012 London ...

The wife of a man who died after taking part in a charity boxing match says she thinks the practice is abhorrent, and wants to see it stopped. In November 2018 Kain Parsons, who was 37, took part in a ...