DUBAI: The UAE’s first ever women’s boxing world title fight is set to take place between Urvashi Singh of India and Halima Vunjabei of Tanzania for the vacant Women’s International Boxing Association super bantamweight belt at Dubai’s Conrad Hotel on Saturday. The event, promoted by DJMC Events and international matchmaker Roshan Nathanial, will also showcase fighters from
Few sports provide such inspirational stories as boxing. The rise of a young girl from a small Armenian village to become Annie “The Lioness” Aroyan is the perfect example. “My mother would borrow money from the neighbours and she would give it to me and say, ‘You have to go to pay for training’,” she said. “I promised myself that I would not give up.