2:45 PM ET Steve KimESPN Javier Martinez, USA Boxing’s top-rated boxer at 165 pounds, has signed a multiyear contract with Top Rank. The Milwaukee native will make his professional debut on June 30 in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Conference Center. Martinez, 24, won the 2020 U.S. Olympic trials, but he was only selected
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8:25 AM ET Steve KimESPN The International Boxing Hall of Fame’s accomplished class of inductees for 2020 includes Bernard Hopkins, “Sugar” Shane Mosley, Juan Manuel Marquez and promoter Dan Goossen, who died in 2014, among others. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, the ceremonies have been postponed and will be combined with the 2021 Hall
1:50 AM ET Steve KimESPN After a relatively slow start, WBO junior featherweight titleholder Emanuel Navarrete overwhelmed Uriel Lopez to score a sixth-round TKO victory in a non-title fight Saturday night at the TV Azteca studios in Mexico City. Navarrete (32-1, 28 KOs) slowly built momentum and eventually started to overpower Lopez (13-13-1, 6 KOs)
2:10 AM ET Steve Kim Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate The four-month layoff didn’t seem to affect the always active Emanuel Navarrete. The junior featherweight world titlist, who had fought five time between December 2018 and
5:44 PM ET Steve KimESPN Featherweight Edwin Palomares scored a fifth-round stoppage of Carlos Ornelas with an accumulation of punches in what has to be considered an upset Saturday night on the Emanuel Navarrete-Uriel Lopez undercard in Mexico City. A body punch in Round 5 forced Ornelas to take a knee. Soon thereafter, his corner
5:44 PM ET Steve KimESPN Junior featherweight world titlist Emanuel Navarrete (31-1, 27 KOs) takes on Uriel Lopez (13-13-1, 6 KOs) in a non-title fight in the main event of a Saturday card in Mexico City (ESPN and ESPN Deportes, 11 p.m. ET.) But before that, a few good prospects will showcase their skills on
2:10 PM ET Steve KimESPN Thompson Boxing announced Friday that it will stage a pay-per-view card July 26 featuring lightweight hopeful Michael Dutchover facing Jorge Marron Jr. in an eight-round bout. Under the new California State Athletic Commission guidelines, the show at the Omega Products Event Center in Corona, California, will take place without a
9:44 AM ET Steve KimESPN Clay Collard handed David Kaminsky his first professional loss with a split decision by the scores of 58-56, 56-58 and 58-56, in a fast-paced super middleweight contest on the Gabriel Flores Jr.- Josec Ruiz undercard at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. But while it looked close on
8:00 AM ET A big celebration didn’t await Emanuel Navarrete when his life changed forever. The day after Navarrete won the WBO 122-pound title in an upset victory over Isaac Dogboe in December 2018, he got on a plane and went back to San Juan Zitlaltepec — Navarrete’s hometown, located roughly 50 miles north of
11:54 PM ET Steve Kim Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate While Thursday night’s Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card lost its main event on the day the bout was scheduled to take place, the show must