Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. Local author, naturalist and former boxer Vanessa Chakour is leading a women’s boxing ...

Every day, twice at day, Shurretta 'Chiccn' Metcalf is at Texas Select Boxing in Garland, training for the fight of her life. "Everybody likes to call me 'Chiccn.' It's so funny, a boxer that's named ...

One by one they shadow-boxed their way into the darkened Excel Arena, spotlights trained on them as if they were heavyweight champions of the world. Six contenders, fighting their way to three history ...

Inside the walls of Babyface Boxing Training Center, the first lesson girls learn in the ring is that they are limitless. The Pacifica-based gym, owned by Boxing Hall of Famer Blanca Gutierrez, is ...