Jade Jones is targeting a professional boxing debut fight in September after setting herself a “crazy” challenge to switch from Taekwondo. Having competed for two decades in a sport which primarily ...

The 31-year-old, who claimed Olympic titles at London 2012 and Rio 2016, and later a world championship in 2019, will now train in Liverpool under former champion Stephen Smith. Jones stated her ...

Background Only one study reported the impact attenuation of taekwondo headgear. Although Olympic boxing has discontinued the use of head protectors, similarities in designs are suggested to provide a ...

Something has quietly shifted in how Americans think about fitness and personal safety. More people than ever are trading ...

The International Olympic Committee has questioned the veracity of claims by a former high-level boxing and taekwondo official of widespread bribery and corruption within the movement. In a series of ...

If you were kickin’ it in the 1990s and 2000s, you have to know about Billy Blanks, the boxer who created the fitness phenomenon Tae Bo. The Pennsylvania native discovered martial arts as a child and ...

Two-time Olympic taekwondo champion Jade Jones of Great Britain is switching sports to boxing. “Some days I wake up and think, am I absolutely crazy? Do you know what I mean?” Jones, 31, said in a BBC ...

Tae Bo may have peaked in the 1990s, but Billy Blanks isn’t about to let it go the way of step aerobics. The father of cardio-kickboxing is still working it like the old days, making special ...

Background To date, only one study reported the impact attenuation of protective taekwondo headgear. Although Olympic boxing has discontinued the use of headgear, similarities in designs are thought ...

Billy Blanks, who has a black belt in karate, created Tae Bo in 1975. "Fitness to me is not a trend. I'm 63 years old but I've been working out since I was 11 years old," said Blanks. The workout went ...

Britain’s two-time Olympic champion describes switch to sweet science as ‘crazy’ as she goes from ‘best in the world to complete novice’ Sonia Twigg primarily writes about cricket, tennis and football ...