Jacobs had been favored long before the Olympic trials were scheduled to bring home the gold in 2008; it was his destiny. His hopes of making the squad for the Athens game in 2004 were foiled when he ...

Ellie Scotney barely slept a wink after arriving on the title stage. The unbeaten 25-year old hit paydirt with a dominant ten-round points win over IBF junior featherweight titlist Cherneka Johnson ...

As a sophomore in high school, professional boxer Danny O’Connor won a Division I state championship in wrestling. Nearly six months later, his plans to wrestle in college ended when he failed out of ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A world-ranked professional boxer from Newport News plans to use his sport to take back the community. The “Gloves on the Coast” USA Boxing tournament will be held on Jan.

Some of the toughest fights for young people now extend beyond the streets, but the discipline of a boxing gym is giving a group of kids a new direction. There’s no shortage of commitment at ...

Sofia Reyna, 15, spars with Nick Brown at the Diamond Hill Community Center in Fort Worth. The boxing program has been a fixture at the center for decades, providing a source of discipline, structure ...