7:53 PM ET “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler died at the age of 66 on Saturday. The Boxing Hall of Famer and sports icon was known as one of the best middleweight fighters in the sport’s history. Hagler became the undisputed middleweight champion in 1980 and defended the crown 12 times, until his defeat against “Sugar” Ray
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12:01 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN The great fighter retires with his fortune and his faculties intact. Then he stays retired — resisting the urgings of the promoters, the public and the ferocious power of his own ego that which made him great in the first place. It’s boxing’s most unlikely story. And its happiest. And
3:10 AM ET Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Cameron Wolfe Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the Broncos for two seasons with the Denver Post Graduate of the University of Houston A native of Jackson, Miss. Juan
1:14 AM ET Who says sequels can’t top the original? It did Saturday night when Juan Francisco Estrada defeated Roman “Chocalatito” Gonzalez by split decision in an extremely close Fight of the Year quality bout at American Airlines Arena in Dallas to win the WBA, WBC, and The Ring magazine junior bantamweight titles. Eight years
6:13 PM ET Tyson Fury’s heavyweight unification fight against Anthony Joshua is not a done deal, according to an interview Fury on Friday. “I’m not training anymore,” Fury told Alex Steedman and Barry Jones on a Top Rank broadcast on ESPN+. “I’m not training no more. I’ve never stopped training since December 2017, and even
7:56 AM ET Juan Francisco Estrada was only 22 years old the first time he faced Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. He was still learning about what kind of boxer he was, and he took a big chance against a guy who was already building his legend, owner of a junior flyweight world title and a record
7:14 AM ET Kathleen McNamee This article is part of ESPN’s coverage of Women’s History Month. When Natasha Jonas met Ireland’s Katie Taylor at the 2012 London Olympics, the stadium was quite literally rocking. At 113.7 decibels the noise was as loud as a rock concert, which happens to be four decibels greater than the
8:16 AM ET FLINT, Mich. — It was a little past 8 p.m. on Friday and the music inside Claressa Shields’ dressing room started to heat up. She grabbed her portable speaker, thumbed with her phone and hit play. Cardi B’s “Up” came on. Shields turned her space into a dance party, twisting her body
6:16 PM ET Associated Press FEASTERVILLE, Pa. — Smokin’ Joe Frazier stood fearsome in bronze, his frozen left hook on the brink of connecting with Muhammad Ali, much as the power punch did 50 years ago in the Fight of the Century. Linked forever by a trilogy of bouts, it’s the first meeting — won
3:09 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN On a March morning, in a suite at the Essex House, half a century ago, Muhammad Ali’s longtime friend and adviser Gene Kilroy received a call from the late Budd Schulberg, a writer whose contribution to the American canon includes “The Harder They Fall,” “On the Waterfront” and a line