Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Local author, naturalist and former boxer Vanessa Chakour is leading a women’s boxing ...

One by one they shadow-boxed their way into the darkened Excel Arena, spotlights trained on them as if they were heavyweight champions of the world. Six contenders, fighting their way to three history ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- Prime Time Boxing in Santa Monica offers fitness classes preparing women to get in the ring. The classes are taught by Olympic boxing coach Cary Williams and cost $35.

The addition of women’s boxing to the Olympic docket kicked down one of the final gender barriers in the Games. The International Olympic Committee's vote to add the sport gave women, for the first ...

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 ...