Networking can be a tricky thing.

You?re not always sure if you?re about to say the wrong thing. It can be awkward, painful even. If your efforts at networking result in your getting punched in the face, more often than not, things did not go well.

?I?m honored to have this opportunity,? says Joe Joyce, about that moment on November 19 when he?ll climb through the ropes of a boxing ring in the center of The Theater at Madison Square Garden to take down the opponent that tried to kill him five...

Jen Royle is a Beast.

Erin Newman is wide-eyed as she looks around the gym at the Nonantum Boxing Club, where she and her sister boxers?all fighters in the 2015 Belles of the Brawl? have come for a trial spar to confirm their matches.

Upon registering for the charity boxing event Haymakers for Hope, one topic was who, in particular, I would be fighting and raising money in honor of. That choice was easy: Diane Stambovsky. To sum it up, Mrs. S. (as I referred to her) was my second...

In October of 2012, Julie Kelly and the Myerson brothers were at Landsdowne Pub, holding a cocktail event for past Haymakers for Hope competitors, when an unfamiliar woman approached them and said, ?I want to fight.? Fast-forward one year, and Karen...

Studying the iced coffee selection in a West Newton café, Shannon Gargaro looks like anything but a boxer. The easy smile, the blonde hair, the distance runner?s frame. She looks the part of a fitness model or a weekend warrior.

3 weeks into training.  (Has it really only been that long?)  94 days til Fight.   Here are some things I've observed.   - Boxing stinks.  Really smells.  The gym doesn't smell somehow.

Patience is a virtue. Or so I?ve been told, since it sure as hell isn?t one of mine. Which is strange, considering I have three children that are all less than four feet tall, am a former kindergarten teacher, and am married to one of the most...