Bill Richmond (1763–1829), known as the Black Terror, was the first Black prizefighter to gain major recognition in Regency England. Born into slavery in Staten Island, New York, he was freed as a teenager and taken to England. There, he was educated and apprenticed, but it was through boxing that he left a revolutionary legacy.

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.   

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

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

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.