Boxing is often praised as a way of teaching discipline, anger management, and teamwork. Now, with violent crime on the rise in English cities —especially among young men and boys — the sport is being ...

Owner Louis Zamudio understands the public's misconception that boxing gyms are dimly lit and filled with men training for the big prizefight. But his gym, located on College Park Drive in The ...

There are few rooms in athletics like boxing gyms. They have a sound, smell and rhythm all their own. For decades, they were places for contenders, not pretenders. You wanted to work out, you went to ...

On March 29, Hector Roca spent his 80th birthday in his apartment along Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, practicing social distancing instead of training fighters at Gleason’s Gym like he has done for 52 ...

It’s no secret that Philly is a boxing city. After all, we count “Smokin” Joe Frazier, Bernard Hopkins, and, of course, the (fictional) Rocky Balboa among our ranks. But, with the rise of chain ...

Four men who volunteer every day at a Manchester boxing gym cite love of the sport, the satisfaction of giving back and the chance to help kids like them dodge life-changing mistakes. And Paul Cichon.

What if the anger about our unjust world was taken out in a boxing class instead of by devouring cake, writing anxious posts on social media or crying into a pillow? This past month, after the bad ...

When the first female boxers showed up at Al Mitchell's gym in northern Michigan several years ago, the U.S. Olympic Education Center's head coach had no interest in teaching women how to fight.