LOS ANGELES – The first woman professional boxing judge in the world, Carol Polis’s life is one of personal triumph against long odds. In The Lady is a Champ (Velocity Publishing Group, $19.99), she pulls no punches. It’s a sports story that will inspire women and a woman’s story that will floor boxing fans. Having
Photo by John G. Wilson Greek female Super-Featherweight boxer Areti Mastrodouka (6-0) is to make boxing history in Greece this coming Saturday March 29, 2014 as she participates in the first ever professional bout to be held in the country. The 37 year-old will face Slovakian Claudia Ferenci in her 7th fight as a professional
By Julie Goldsticker/photo by Mary Ann Owen (COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.) – USA Boxing’s top female athletes in the elite division are traveling to Colorado Springs, Colo., today for their first training camp of the year at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. A squad from Canada will travel south to the Pikes Peak region as
“It is believed that the only way to get the sport of boxing back on track in India would be for it to be left in the hands of trustful, clean and honest people who love boxing and to give the opportunity to any group of people with passion and love for our sport
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) today terminated the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation’s (IABF) membership after what it described as ‘an extensive evaluation and assessment of all issues surrounding the sport of boxing in India’. The IABF had in fact been temporarily suspended since December 2012 albeit boxers had been allowed to compete in major International