Even before they could climb into the ring, Cuba’s female boxers had to roll with the punches. While the island has long been famed for its top-level male boxers, women were blocked by an ...

HAVANA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Boxing powerhouse Cuba has given the green light to women who wish to partake in tournaments for the first time since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, sports officials ...

Havana, Cuba – As acrid sweat fills a dank boxing gym in east Havana, water drips through a crack in the ceiling. Next to a small puddle beside the ring, women wearing protective padding spar ...

Cuba has finally relaxed its rules to allow women to compete in boxing For Joanna Rodriguez, a recent rule change by the Cuban authorities to finally allow women to compete in boxing couldn't come ...

Yoenis Tellez first strolled into Ronnie Shields Boxing Gym in Stafford, Texas, one afternoon in September of 2022, bringing big dreams and bigger baggage. In his native Cuba, Tellez had been a ...

"Saying that boxing is not for Cuban women – that's always been the problem," she said, leaning on the side of a blue boxing ring in downtown Havana. "Where we are now, we never thought we would ...

For years. This is how women in Cuba have boxed sparring in rudimentary gyms with whatever equipment they could scrounge while men's boxing is *** sport, the island has long dominated women's ...

Flores says she trained for years as many women interested in boxing do in Cuba: on her own dime and in gyms lacking in even the most basic equipment. While they could learn and practice the sport ...