No one should ever wish for the misfortune of others. That doesn’t mean one can’t recognize that a silver lining sometimes comes with the bad luck of others. This week, headlines would have been ...

The complete televised lineup for this week’s historic all-female “SUPERWOMEN: SHIELDS VS. DICAIRE” boxing event on Friday, March 5 from the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Mich., has now been ...

LONDON (AP) — Marlen Esparza was already having a tough time with her headgear when the crowd started booing her for refusing to trade haymakers with her Venezuelan opponent. The way the women rocked ...

The fight will see all four major flyweight titles unified for the first time. Gabriela Fundora is set to fight Marlen Esparza for the undisputed flyweight championship on January 6th, 2024, in Las ...

Alexa Grasso and Marlen Esparza are both flyweight champions but in different sports. Grasso is the top pound-for-pound female in the UFC, while Esparza has dominated her boxing division since late ...

LONDON — Minutes after Marlen Esparza won the most important fight of her life, a reporter asked her about the rather good fortune of receiving a first-round bye in the Olympic boxing tournament. That ...

When Marlen Esparza made history as a member of the first U.S. women's Olympic boxing team, Alexis Lavarine began making plans. When Marlen Esparza made history as a member of the first U.S. women's ...

Victor Conte, perhaps the most notorious steroids supplier in U.S. history, the man who founded BALCO, the San Francisco-area company at the center the country's biggest sports drug scandal, is ...

Esparza (14-1, 1 KO), of Houston, who came in at 114 pounds for the 112-pound bout, will still fight Saturday night at the Save Mart Arena in Fresno, California, against Gabriela Celeste Alaniz, who ...

And just like Cassius Clay, Joe Frazier and Oscar De La Hoya before her, Claressa Shields is about to fight for a gold medal. The 17-year-old middleweight dominated Kazakhstan's Marina Volnova in the ...

Marlen Esparza of the United States is a step closer toward a place on the U.S. women's Olympic boxing team. She reached the third round of the 112-pound class at the women's world boxing ...

Five-time national champion Marlen Esparza of Houston is among 79 boxers in the three weight classes that will compete at the 2012 Olympic Games who have entered USA Boxing’s national championships ...