James Monk, in blue, swings a right hook towards Samuel Sheikh, in red, during in the 2014 Wing Open Boxing Championship was held at the United States Air Force Academy Thursday, February 20, 2014.

In the bloody war known as the Boxer Rebellion, 100,000 fought and died over the colonization of 1900s China. Among the tales of the war are martial arts legends of “bulletproof” monks that ...

George “Monk” III also became a boxer like his father. Monk went 16-0 as he competed from 2009- 2012. After his boxing career, Monk co-founded a boxing gym chain, EveryBodyFights.