ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer – an unusual choice for a young woman in a working-class neighborhood of Ghana's capital of ...
Before she entered the ring for her first fight, 13-year-old Andrea Girón loosened up by jumping in place, shaking her arms and doing neck rolls. She and coach Freddy Ramirez slipped through the ropes ...