2012 Olympic gold medalist, Irish lightweight Katie Taylor, is heading to Romania in search of her sixth consecutive championship when she competes in the 2014 European Women’s Elite Championships to be held May 30th through June 8th. The three-time AIBA World Female Boxer of the Year award winner is being aided in her preparation for the competition by fellow Olympic medalists … [Read more...]
Punching Your Sister in the Face: The Southpaw
by Fox Doucette Last week, on the official ESPN Friday Night Fights Facebook page, the question came up of how meaningful the performance of the women's team in London was at removing some of the stink of the men's completely medal-less debacle at the Olympic Games. Your columnist caught a lot of flak for saying, in no uncertain terms, that the women's performance was … [Read more...]