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Choosing the right pair of boxing gloves
by The Glowing Edge
posted July 28, 2011 at 4:24pm

Even if you are only boxing for fitness, you will need a decent pair of boxing gloves. But before you buy the first pair you find in the local sporting goods store, here are a few things you should consider. Communal gym gloves reek. And they’re wor...more

Alicia Ashley Becomes Oldest Female Boxing Champ by Winning Vacated WBC Super Bantamweight Title
by Wombat Sports
posted July 26, 2011 at 6:07pm

Photo courtesy PowerImage PR Who says you are too old to fight? At the age of 43, Alicia Ashley has won the vacated the WBC Super Batamweight title this past Saturday in front of her hometown crowd in the Bronx, NY’s Hunt’s Point Produce Market. Th...more

Thailand's female boxers go to the Olympics
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted July 15, 2011 at 11:13am

Great interviews from Global Post with the women on the Thai boxing team preparing for the Olympics. As with the male fighters, many of them were Muay Thai boxers first and now are changing over. Interesting look at a culture where women are not meant to ...more

Fight Walk-In Rock Playlist
by The Glowing Edge
posted July 4, 2011 at 10:01am

During my second fight I had really wanted some calm, soothing music to keep my heart rate under control during the long hours of waiting before I actually entered the arena to get in ring. That playlist was called “The Unexpected Bell” (since I di...more

Fencing, Boxing, & the Physical Culture of Women 121 years ago
by LostCentury
posted July 1, 2011 at 3:07am

April 26, 1890 – The Illustrated American The physical culture of women is a subject that, starting as a fashionable fad, has attained the dignity of a real reform movement. Gymnastics are taught in numbers of the schools and colleges for girls bot...more

Pressure on 2012 boxers
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted June 30, 2011 at 2:12pm

Interesting piece in one of the Irish papers today looking at the effects of only having three weight divisions for women's boxing in the London Olympics. Looks like there will be a large shuffle with boxers moving up and down the divisions to try and qua...more

Avery Vilche Female MMA Fighter Loses Four Fights in a Row, Comes Back To Win Next Fight
by Cheryl Ragsdale
posted June 17, 2011 at 2:30pm

This week, I co-hosted MarQ's Wombat Sport's WMMA fighter interview with Avery Vilche, a female MMA fighter who describes herself as "freakishly strong" and says she presses almost 1000lbs. After spending half an hour listening to how she thinks, I'd s...more

G2 Summit 2011 Let's Celebrate Women's MMA
by Cheryl Ragsdale
posted June 17, 2011 at 1:13pm

The GFight G2 Summit has been a yearly event since 2009. This year's event scheduled for July 1 - 3, 2011 in Las Vegas is hosted by Tuff N Nuff and GFight. Keep reading for more details and to see the complete list of Incredible Seminar Leaders....more

Boxing Lesson: Advance on the Jab
by The Glowing Edge
posted June 4, 2011 at 9:00pm

It may be that trainers have been saying this to me for years now, and I’m only just recently able to hear it. There is so much to be mastered in boxing that sometimes it’s all you can do to cope with the basics. You have to simply survive in the ...more

Fighting the dread of boxing training
by The Glowing Edge
posted June 1, 2011 at 10:20pm

Having just moved to a new boxing gym, I’m once again reminded of how hard it is to make inroads into a new gym, a new team. I don’t mean overcoming the reluctance to train, but rather the simple and profound fear of boxing itself, and all the insa...more

G2 Women’s MMA Summit July 1-3: Seminars, Fights, and Networking
by MarQFPR
posted May 27, 2011 at 6:00am

GFight has been a leader in women’s MMA, hosting an annual conference of some of the best female fighters on the planet to help support the next generation. This year, the event heads to Vegas. Tuff-n-uff MMA has teamed up with GFight to host the...more

Hair Metal Playlist for Running and Roping
by The Glowing Edge
posted May 26, 2011 at 6:51pm

Warning: rambling post filled with (clearly labeled!) tangents ahead. Feel free to skip to the bottom for the playlist. It was about 90 degrees outside but the sun was dropping when I headed out for a run. I’m not yet acclimatized to summer heat wor...more

How Boxing Inspires People
by The Glowing Edge
posted May 24, 2011 at 7:12pm

. I just found this awesome video over on Jill Morley’s blog and was glued to the screen as each fighter told just a small piece of his or her story. The woman who appears at the end of this video, Kaiyana Rain, also has a fight blog, and I’ve add...more

Ladies of the Boxing Ring
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 22, 2011 at 2:22pm

By Sudhiti NaskarTwins Shakila and Sanno Singh challenge a conservative, male-dominated society and traditional expectations in India with every fist they throw in the boxing ring. The Muslim 20-year-olds tell Sudhiti Naskar of their hopes and dreams, an...more

Atlanta Corporate Fight Night 2, Merz vs Bledsoe
by The Glowing Edge
posted May 21, 2011 at 10:39am

ACFN2 Merz vs Bledsoe from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. ACFN2 Merz vs Bledsoe from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. I promised to post video from my fight so here it is. Try to ignore the blinking — I should have messed with my codec settings, but I w...more

Selling bodies or selling sports?
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 15, 2011 at 2:32pm

BY KALPANA SHARMAGive them the choice of dress: Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa in action. Photo: R. RaguWhen a 15-year-old girl from Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh comes back with a gold medal for, of all sports, boxing, there must be reason to celebrate. I...more

How to Win a Fight in a Bar
by The Glowing Edge
posted May 11, 2011 at 3:39pm

I’ve never actually had a fight in a bar, but that seemed hardly relevant when I had the idea for this Ignite Durham speech (...more

Thirteen reasons why women should take up boxing
by The Glowing Edge
posted May 11, 2011 at 1:51pm

I recently posted my Ignite Durham speech titled “How to Win a Fight in a Bar,” and it made me realize I’d never posted the first Ignite speech I gave, “13 Reasons Women Should Take Up Boxing.” The Ignite idea is that if enough people vote u...more

Boxer Mary Kom wins again at Asian Cup
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted May 10, 2011 at 6:08pm

Mary Kom pic Glamour IndianIndian boxer Mary Kom won gold in the 48kgs division at the Asian Cup yesterday. This was her fourth time taking the title, beginning to be bit of a habit. She beat Kim Myong Sim from North Korea in the tournament, running in Ch...more

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