Oleksandr Usyk's team filed a formal request with the Middle East Professional Boxing Commission to mandate Tyson Fury trim his beard prior to Saturday's unified heavyweight championship bout, ESPN ...

(RNS) — When the Canadian Amateur Boxing Association prohibited him from competing because of his beard, this Sikh athlete decided to fight to change the rules. (RNS) — Two decades ago, Pardeep Singh ...

A Muslim boxer barred from competition for wearing a beard is fighting a USA Boxing waiver system that he claims unfairly discriminates against boxers with religious exemptions. The Michigan Chapter ...

Friday night was big in the career of boxer Abraham Nova, who was set to challenge O’Shaquie Foster for the WBC junior lightweight title at Madison Square Garden on ESPN’s Top Rank Boxing. In a ...

Oleksandr Usyk’s (22-0, 14 KOs) team surely does not like Tyson Fury’s (34-1-1, 24 KOs). According to the WBC, a boxer may sport a trimmed beard as long as the commission or supervisor decides that it ...

A teen boxer was reportedly banned from competing in a tournament because of his beard — and now he’s fighting back with the help of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In the case of ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- On Saturday night Jackie "Black Jack" Beard of Kentwood will attempt to do something no one has ever done to Jordan Shimmell -- knock him out. Shimmell (7-0, 6 KOs) hasn't been ...