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Whilst most young women in her home town of Zambia were busy planning weddings, Esther Phiri had other ideas: to stay single, be a professional boxer and complete the high school education that she ...

Catherine Phiri, 32, is currently Zambia’s fiercest boxer – and she has the accolades to show it. Phiri was the first African woman to win a prestigious World Boxing Council Gold title in 2016.

LUSAKA, Zambia – Just a few years ago, Esther Phiri was a struggling single mother with a sixth-grade education selling vegetables on the street in Mutendere, an impoverished neighborhood of ...

And when that person is a woman it becomes even more undesirable. But why are there so many women and girls attracted to the sport of boxing? The first appearance of the sport was in the Olympic Games ...