Boxing World Championships : All

Leslie Xavier
Dodgy Star and Missing Bouts: Déjà vu for Indian Boxing as Mary Kom Avoids Nikhat Zareen
08 Aug 2019
Not for the first time MC Mary Kom has used her influence and force of personality to avoid trials for selection. Like many Indian sports stars, her pioneering heroism is now self serving and…
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Women’s World Boxing Preview: Global Stars Ready To Jostle as India Pin Hopes on Mary Kom
14 Nov 2018
With no clear favourites in any category, India pin hopes on stalwarts Mary Kom, Sarita Devi and Simranjit Kaur as Women boxers take centre stage at the AIBA World Championships.
Leslie Xavier
Jab, Hook and Smog for Gold: Top Women Boxers to Suffer Delhi’s Pollution at World Championships
14 Nov 2018
Experts and athletes share similar concerns over staging of an international sporting event in Delhi at this time of the year. With pollution a major taking point, administrative shortsightedness may…
Leslie Xavier
Mary Kom: Boxing World Moves On, India Remains Unchanged
13 Nov 2018
Ahead of the AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships in New Delhi, five-time champion and Olympic medallist MC Mary Kom, never one to pull punches, challenges the next generation of Indian boxers to…