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As 2025 draws to a close, Boxing is Love reflects on a landmark year of growth made possible through the continued support of BOXRAW, other partners and the wider boxing community.

Boxing Is Love  was honoured to be invited to join a select delegation of parliamentarians, boxing stakeholders, members of the APPG on Boxing, and former World Cruiserweight Champion Johnny Nelson  in a meeting with Stephanie Peacock MP, Minister for Sport , to discuss the vital contribution boxing makes to communities across the United Kingdom. Members of the APPG on Boxing, Boxing Is Love, senior stakeholders and former World Cruiserweight Champion Johnny Nelson are pictur

Fuel the Fight is a collaborative project between Boxing is Love and African.Box, developed with Dr. Yaw Ansong Snr, a PhD researcher at Cambridge University. The initiative raises awareness about nutrition among boxing communities in Nigeria and Ghana. Together, we created nutrition posters tailored to local produce and shared them across more than ten gyms in Lagos and Accra, including with national teams.

The book attempts to link cultural changes in Mexico to prominent boxers at the time and how both take from and contribute to each other. For instance this time period experienced stages of high nationalistic sentiment (political idea of high devotion to the state and its culture) and the film 1946 Campeón sin corona (Champions without a crown) drew heavily on Rodolfo Casanova’s life in order to build an idea of Mexican masculinity and national pride, furthermore during this

As a Catholic priest takes part in a historic amateur boxing tournament, the article discusses both the feelings of many Catholics who deem the sport as innately immoral and O'Halloran’s own feelings regarding the positives that boxing brings; discipline etc.   

Boxing is Love, in partnership with King's College London Amateur Boxing Club (KCL ABC) and King's Sikhs Society, hosted Charan Kaur Dhesi, the first British-born Sikh Woman to join the professional ranks in Boxing.

Boxing is Love is proud to announce a new collaboration with Wisdom Boxing Gym, a leading community boxing club in Accra, Ghana, with over three decades of heritage.

Born in East Los Angeles to Mexican parents, Oscar De La Hoya carried the expectations of two worlds.

Yasir Masood is the creative mastermind behind our latest short film: 'Boxing is Love: HOMEGROWN'. The film tells the story of M'Baye Kante as he trains in Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic Games. Through his training journey, he reflects on how boxing has shaped his outlook on life and how he finds his place in the world through his creative practice as a professional Senegalese drummer and teaching youth groups in South LA about traditional West African drumming practices.

Leger Grindon’s Body and Soul: The Structure of Meaning in the Boxing Film Genre treats boxing films as a distinct American genre. Rather than simply cataloguing fight scenes, Grindon reads these films as a cultural grammar that dramatises core tensions in American life. His analysis reveals that the ring serves as a public stage where private and national conflicts unfold.

This piece examines Paul Hewitt’s article "Physics in the Sport of Boxing – A Personal Story." Hewitt reflects on how his early experiences as a young boxer helped him understand the physics of motion, energy, and timing. He later used these insights in his teaching, showing that science becomes more meaningful when connected to real-life experiences. His story demonstrates how boxing teaches efficiency, awareness, and discipline, and how sport can make scientific ideas more

Emmanuel Akyeampong’s “Bukom and the Social History of Boxing in Accra” (2002) traces the origins of boxing in Accra to the Ga people’s precolonial martial traditions. He shows how communal fighting (asafo atwele) once served as a path to citizenship and belonging, later evolving into modern boxing under colonial influence.

Kurt Campbell’s essay “To Think as a Boxer” uses Marco Cianfanelli’s Johannesburg sculpture Shadow Boxing to explore how boxing became both a metaphor and a practice that shaped Nelson Mandela’s political life. The work draws on a famous 1950s photograph of Mandela sparring, but Campbell shows that the meaning runs far deeper than a striking pose.

This article explores Anatole Broyard’s 1987 New York Times review of On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates, a book that examines the sport with rare clarity and depth. Broyard reflects on how Oates cuts through the boxing films as a distinct American genre. Rather than simply cataloguing fight scenes, Grindon reads these films as a cultural grammar that dramatises core tensions in American life. His analysis reveals that the ring serves as a public stage where private and national

This week at Spotlight Centre Langdon Park, students eagerly participated in a thought-provoking lesson about biases, using the dynamic world of sports as their exploration platform.

In 2015 Nicholas Dixon explores the arguments put forward by the American Medical Association House of Delegates “AMA” which says that "Professional and amateur boxing should be banned outright." He also poses arguments supporting his own position of a ban of blows to the head in professional boxing.  

This piece examines Randy Roberts’ 2014 essay on boxing and academia, showing how the sport has been tied to debates about race, class, and masculinity. It highlights how fighters like Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali reflected broader social and political struggles, and how scholars such as Eldridge Cleaver and R. W. Connell framed boxing as central to understanding identity and power.

On Wednesday, September 17, we visited the Peterborough Police Boxing Club , where our CEO, Spencer, joined a senior training session....

Dr Yaw Ansong Snr is a licensed medical doctor and PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a MSci from Imperial College London, and a MBBS from the University of Cape Coast, GMC Reg. Part 1: The Macronutrients Part 2: Vitamin and Minerals Part 3: Water

Based on Barbara Brinson Curiel’s "Fighting Back: Boxing, Violence, and Masculinity in Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida", this piece explores how boxing shaped Chicano masculinity in the 1980s. Contrasting hyper-masculinity built on violence with alternative models of humility and resilience.