10:30 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Rival British promoters Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn have not given up hope of matching Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua for all four world
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5:19 PM ET Steve KimESPN Tyson Fury defeated Deontay Wilder on Saturday night to claim the WBC heavyweight title and hand Wilder his first professional loss. As Fury landed at will with Wilder trapped in the corner, Mark Breland, one of Wilder’s trainers, threw in the towel, resulting in the fight being stopped. Jay Deas,
5:05 PM ET Top Rank, already loaded with top fighters in the light heavyweight division, has added another 175-pounder to its stable, announcing Tuesday that it has signed contender Umar Salamov to a multifight promotional agreement. Salamov is due to make his Top Rank debut on a date to be determined in the early summer,
6:49 PM ET Steve KimESPN Former light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev was arrested early Monday morning in Los Angeles for driving under the influence of alcohol. According to an arrest report obtained by ESPN, Kovalev was pulled over around 2 a.m. local time by the California Highway Patrol and placed under arrest after officers conducted
7:00 PM ET Former heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder told ESPN on Monday that he will “definitely” exercise his right to an immediate third fight with Tyson Fury. Fury, the lineal champion, who also took Wilder’s WBC belt, knocked him down twice and stopped him when Wilder’s co-trainer, Mark Breland, threw in the towel as
8:00 AM ET SENATOR MANNY PACQUIAO is sitting in the second row of a black government Escalade, his left foot on the center console, a 9 mm handgun in the seatback in front of him. A security van hugging the back bumper is filled with Pacquiao’s assistants and several members of the National Police, their
1:00 PM ET LAS VEGAS — It is a ritual that plays out before virtually every fight of consequence: Each boxer is asked about his plan for the bout and declines to offer any specifics for fear of giving too much information to his opponent. But Tyson Fury is not your normal prizefighter. “The Gypsy
2:35 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Long before Tyson Fury had stripped to his underpants late on Saturday night after his win over Deontay Wilder, there was talk of a future fight with Anthony Joshua. 2 Related Fury had dismantled the previously lethal Wilder like an adult taking a dummy from the mouth of a
3:12 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Man’s most primitive endeavor came wrapped in the lavish and the absurd on Saturday night in Vegas. It was the biggest heavyweight fight in decades — a night the boxing folks hope is a prelude and not a throwback — and Tyson Fury owned every last inch of it.
3:35 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Tyson Fury left no doubt about who the heavyweight king of boxing is, as he thoroughly dismantled Deontay Wilder on Saturday in a highly anticipated rematch of their 2018 split draw. Fury decisively won the bout via TKO in the seventh round after Wilder’s corner threw in the towel.