The risk and nature of injury in the sport of boxing has generated a great deal of controversy in the medical community, especially in relation to youth boxing. A new study examined boxing injuries ...

Amateur boxing is associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment and earlier onset of dementia, according to a study carried out by Cardiff University. The research team found that men who ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — In 2010, the International Boxing Association (AIBA), the federation that runs Olympic boxing, created a professional series it named the World Series of Boxing. It uses the same ...

Viewed through a scientist’s lens, professional boxing is a series of scheduled, measurable head traumas. In other words, it is a human model for chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Seen this way, ...

Linguists from the University of Warwick have teamed up with England Boxing and UK Coaching in a bid to interpret and improve the way in which coaches communicate in high-pressure situations. The ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- About one-third of professional mixed martial arts matches end in knockout or technical knockout, indicating a higher incidence of brain trauma than boxing or other martial arts, ...

Longtime Muhammad Ali promoter Bob Arum discusses Ali’s battle with Parkinson’s disease and reveals his regret that Ali did not retire officially from boxing sooner. This is an excerpt of WSJ’s Lee ...

(CBS News) A new study paints a clearer picture of the toll boxing and repeated head blows take on athletes' brains. The study aimed to look for the "breaking point" when repeated trauma starts to ...

In a head-to-head between virtual reality boxing and a YouTube-guided boxing exercise, VR boxing takes the win in reducing stress and improving cognitive function among adolescents, shows a new study ...

Chris Arreola (36-4-1, 31 KOs) of Escondido, Calif., will go into Saturday night’s nationally televised fight against Travis Kauffman (30-1, 22 KOs) of Reading, Penn., with every intention of landing ...

The risk and nature of injury in the sport of boxing has generated a great deal of controversy in the medical community, especially in relation to youth boxing. A new study, conducted by researchers ...