World champion Arlen Lopez beat Uzbekistan's Bektemir Melikuziev to the men's middleweight title, his country's third gold medal of the Rio boxing tournament. Fighting half an hour after compatriot Robeisy Ramirez had won gold, Lopez took the opening ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - The International Boxing Federation has tried to calm the furor over several controversial bouts last week by tossing out a handful of their judges and reassigning an executive in charge of supervising them.

Cuba's Robeisy Ramirez won a split-decision victory over Shakur Stevenson in the Olympic bantamweight boxing final Saturday, denying the U.S.

The 33-year-old from Leeds, swept the scorecards 39-37 to become the first two-time women's Olympic boxing champion. It is Team GB's first gold boxing medal at Rio 2016, though super-heavyweight Joe Joyce could add another on Sunday (21 August).

Park High School football coach Bruce Knerr was fired Thursday following reports that a football player was hospitalized from a boxing activity that occurred at a leadership camp, as well as allegations the coach sent inappropriate texts to students.

RIO DE JANEIRO - The federation running the boxing tournament at the Olympics reassigned its executive director on Thursday, a day after a handful of judges were sent home for making questionable rulings in a few bouts.

For years, Heather Hardy has fought for equality for women in boxing, taking her lumps inside and outside the ring along the way.

As Errol Spence climbs up the welterweight rankings, he finds himself facing a fighter in Leonard Bundu who might provide us a pretty good idea of where Spence stands in that division.

A former boxing champion himself, Pete previously coached Katie for her London 2012 Olympic competitions. He told the Star he would have liked to be back with his daughter after her defeat on Monday but that the issue was a private “family matter”.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Claressa Shields has studied Muhammad Ali's fights. But what she admires most about the legendary champion - and the reason she traveled to Louisville in June to grieve his passing - was the way Ali lifted African Americans' ...

Before the Olympic Opening ceremony had even taken place Irish coaches Zaur Antia, Eddie Bolger and John Conlan slipped out of the Rio hotel where the boxing draw was taking place and onto a waiting bus. Within seconds the bus was surrounded by ...

Three four-round gold medal bouts hit the Olympics on Saturday, with one featuring one of the best American boxing prospects in recent history.

China's Yin Junhua and France's Estelle Mossely will fight for the women's lightweight boxing gold medal Friday afternoon in Rio.

American men have not won an Olympic gold medal in boxing since 2004. When Shakur Stevenson qualified earlier this year, Team USA thought they had a chance to end that run.

The heavyweight division is going through a bit of a resurgence with young knockout artists like Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua grabbing world titles, but depth remains a question -- especially in the United States.

Rochester, N.Y. - Boxing fans may have turned on the TV Friday night and saw that Rochester's Rhinos Stadium was a backdrop for a heavyweight professional boxing match. Stadium owners Wendy and David Dworkin say the Showtime Network saw interest ...

Singer-actor Ruben Blades was a member of the Roberto Durán entourage when his fellow Panamanian was at the top of the boxing world. But he happened to be in New York for the infamous “No más” fight, and had to watch it on closed-circuit (the ...