America lost two giants who appeared on different stages, and did not always win, but were examples for all of us to emulate.

In May 2015, 20 year-old Mhairi Black was the youngest person for ... Woolhouse joins us to discuss a huge moment in British women’s boxing, which emphasises the progress of women in the sport.

"There were women in boxing before I ventured into boxing ... as he watched her train during an afternoon session at the Black Panthers Gym. But for Quartey, what counts the most is the impact ...

In May 2015, 20 year-old Mhairi Black was the youngest person for more than a century to become a Member of Parliament – and she then remained a Westminster MP until standing down at the 2024 election ...

In 2022, she was named British Boxing's Fighter of the Year—the first woman to receive the honour. A self-managed boxer, she also became the first Black woman to be granted a managerial license ...

And last year, at age 27, she became Ghana's first female world boxing champion and the first ... she said at the Jamestown neighborhood's Black Panthers Gym, where Quartey has been training ...

1939 — The barnstorming Renaissance Five beat the NBL champion Oshkosh All-Stars, 34-25, to win the first annual World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago. Sports reporters of the day make ...

Price, wearing a black robe with glittering lapel ... The Londoner had argued that the format of women’s boxing needed to be more demanding, with major bouts increased from 10 rounds of two ...

Longtime boxing announcer Jim Lampley ... There, in the Games famous for Black power protest salutes by track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos from the medal stand, Foreman bloodied Lithuanian ...

"And he made a statement, and it was on the front of some London paper, that 'God is Black ... woman who said he sexually abused them in the 1970s. He denied the charges. Athletes and boxing ...

By Victor Mather George Foreman, a heavyweight boxing champion who returned to the ... After the fight, Foreman, who was Black, waved a small American flag in the ring, days after the track ...

In the time it took to coordinate an interview with Doherty about her standout work on the series, a whole second show ...