LOS ANGELES (AP) Cecilia Braekhus was barely a teenager when she began sneaking out the window of her family home in Bergen, Norway, to train secretly as a kickboxer. Although she had an instinctive ...

Cecilia Braekhus, the best pound-for-pound female boxer in the world and current owner of five welterweight championships, is set for her second fight in Norway after leading the charge to overturn ...

To throw a punch is easy. You just pick a hand, curl it into a fist, and either extend your arm or bend it. If you want power, you can generate that from your legs and by turning your hips. You punch ...

Lucia Rijker is not yet a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, which says a lot more about the Hall than it ever could about Rijker. Rijker is widely regarded as the greatest women’s boxer ...

Cecilia Braekhus headlines the final HBO boxing card against Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes as she continues to put women’s boxing on the map. Boxing is a sport long dominated by men, but the tide of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CARSON >> A boxing institution ended its 45-year run Saturday night at the StubHub Center. The curtain fell on HBO’s long dance with pugilism after the ...

Pound-for-pound queen Cecilia Brækhus (25-0, 7 KOs) will attempt to make history on September 13 by becoming the first female boxer in any weight category to unify a division by holding all four major ...

There is no dingy gym, no broken down rings or sketchy neighborhoods to walk through in Torrevieja, Spain for Cecilia Braekhus as she prepares for her Friday bout against Erica Farias. Call it the ...

The undefeated Cecilia Braekhus will defend her WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO World Welterweight titles against Mikaela Lauren this Saturday in Stokke, Norway. While promoting the fight, they faced off ...

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