Women's boxing on the rise but fighters still struggle to find opponents, finance fights

Jess Messina is an Australian champion but she has dropped a weight class to find a fight and struggles to find promoters prepared to back her financially.
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Cecilia Brækhus was told women couldn’t enter boxing gyms. She still became an undisputed champion despite a ban on the sport

Cecilia Brækhus embarked on her against-the-odds career in professional boxing almost two decades ago, and she’s hardly stopped fighting before or since. Along the way, her opponents have been many ...
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When boxing’s top-ranked female fighter said she’d ’embarrass’ Jake Paul in the ring with one hand

Many fighters have long pushed back on Jake Paul’s push for legitimacy as a professional boxer. The next step in Paul’s journey in the ring comes Saturday, June 28, when he throws down with ex-WBC ...