Women's boxing
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Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissi
Anne-Sophie Da Costa and Tina Rupprecht boxing, 2017
Bennett sisters boxing, c.1910–1915
Louise Adler, female lightweight world boxing champion of the 1920s, training for her title defense
Renata Cristina Dos Santos Ferreira punches Adriana Salles, São Paulo, Brazil (2006)
Boxing
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Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two opponents throwing punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. It is usually done wearing protect
Women's boxing
…Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic…
Two Royal Navy men boxing for charity in July 1945
A woman's boxing match in Uruguay in 2008
An Akrotiri fresco painting of Minoan youths boxing, the earliest documented use of boxing gloves, c. 1650 BC
A boxing scene depicted on a Panathenaic amphora in Ancient Greece, c. 336 BC, now housed at the British Museum