BISMARCK — Out of all the sparkling medals, belts and titles, winning the 48th North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award means the most to Virgil Hill, a Native American professional boxer ...

Bare-knuckle boxing was banned for more than a century. Now, Native fighters like Leo “Bushido” Bercier are helping others ...

BROWNING, MT. — The murder rate for Native American women is 10 times higher than the rate for non-indigenous women. One man started a program to stop young girls on his reservation from becoming ...

FALL RIVER — Four years can seem like a long time, especially to a 19 year old. So, Mikey Gaudreau is making his dream of boxing in the Olympics a comparatively short-term goal. On Aug. 17, Gaudreau ...

At only 10 years old, Woodland native and boxing prodigy Madelyn Salas is already proving herself as one of the top young boxers in the country. Salas recently added another major national title to ...

WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) — Waterbury’s Mike Kimbel used to drive by the Palace Theater as a kid, but never went in. On Saturday, the 29-year-old Kimbel will headline boxing’s return to the Brass City.

Blake Baldi learned how to grapple with competitive challenges as a wrestler at Notre Dame High School in Peoria. The Peoria native has gone on to a career that packs a punch, though, as head coach of ...

As a professional boxer, Jason Gavern travels all over the world to get in a ring and take on opponents. He has fought in arenas from California to Germany and Florida to Las Vegas. But he enjoys ...