In the loud and sticky atmosphere of the boxing gym, where boxers’ gloves slip down the sweaty shoulders of their training partners, where the drops of sweat are dispersed on mirrors, punching bags, and on the floors, where the sweat drips from the edges of boxers’ bodies and the sounds of heavy breathing, the sign of physical hardship, fill the air and the lungs of others, it became clear that to engage with the gendered embodied experience of boxing seriously means to open up the research to its sensuous reality.
