5:38 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Mikey Garcia and Jessie Vargas meet in a 12-round welterweight battle in the main event of Saturday’s DAZN card at the Ford Center at The Star. But before that, we’ll see two title fights and the return of a former heavyweight world titlist on the undercard In the co-main
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9:22 PM ET Former heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder said Friday that he has decided to keep careerlong co-trainer Mark Breland as part of his team. Wilder suffered a seventh-round knockout loss in his rematch with Tyson Fury last Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas when Breland threw in the
Feb 26, 2020 Steve KimESPN There’s a running joke in boxing that if you want to get a review or a recommendation on a trainer, Jessie Vargas is the guy to ask. Chances are that the former two-division titlist has probably worked with them at some point in his career. Since he began punching for
1:15 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Finalizing the deal for a fight between unified heavyweight world titlist Anthony Joshua and mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev this summer is down to the sides agreeing on “silly things,” Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn told ESPN. Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, and Pulev co-promoters Top Rank and Epic Sports face an
1:31 PM ET Josh Taylor is heading home to Scotland to fight for the first time since unifying two junior welterweight world titles. Taylor will defend against mandatory challenger Apinun Khongsong on May 2 (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN+) at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, Top Rank announced Thursday. Taylor will headline at the arena
11:21 AM ET Forget winning the WBC heavyweight title. Tyson Fury’s TKO victory over Deontay Wilder in their rematch resulted in another accomplishment that Tyson Fury had never achieved: a spot in the top 10 of our pound-for-pound list. Fury broke through in the rankings of a number of our panelists, including that of former
9:06 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — One year ago, then-lightweight titlist Mikey Garcia, jumped up two weight divisions to challenge welterweight titleholder Errol Spence Jr. in a really big fight. Garcia, widely hailed as one of boxing’s best pound-for-pound fighters, had called out Spence for months, and with no big fight in the offing against
8:21 AM ET Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez had reached the heights of boxing. The protégé of the late, great Hall of Famer Alexis Arguello was atop the pound-for-pound rankings, an unheard of position for a fighter all of 115 pounds, and he would break the legend’s record as the first fighter from Nicaragua to win world
7:26 AM ET John BarrESPN.com Close Joined ESPN in June 2003 Winner: 2013 Peabody Award; 2011 Edward R. Murrow Award/Video Investigative Reporting Covers breaking news, investigative pieces and human interest features DAVID FELDMAN SAT with his son in the empty bleachers of the 2,000-seat Cheyenne Ice and Events Center staring at the scene below. Within
11:53 PM ET The Japan Boxing Commission and the Japan Professional Boxing Association announced Wednesday that all cards scheduled in March would be called off due to the government’s call for the cancellation or postponement of sporting and cultural events to help contain the spread of the coronavirus. The bouts scheduled in March will be