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‘She carried it on her back to the grandest stages’: How Katie Taylor transformed women’s boxing

Katie Taylor beat Flora Pili in her final fight on Saturday night Charles McQuillan/Getty Images In March 2009, 9,000 boxing fans filled Dublin’s O2 arena to see Bernard Dunne (The Dublin Dynamo) ...
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Cecilia Brækhus was told women couldn’t enter boxing gyms. She still became an undisputed champion despite a ban on the sport

Cecilia Brækhus embarked on her against-the-odds career in professional boxing almost two decades ago, and she’s hardly stopped fighting before or since. Along the way, her opponents have been many ...
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High-powered women are spending thousands to attend this exclusive boxing retreat: 'We're constantly asked to fight'

Dymphna Cordova usually spends her Thursday mornings deep in meeting mode to untangle work priorities with her team or manage complex employee issues at her company. But on this particular Thursday ...