Jan 31, 2020 Steve KimESPN In a battle of YouTube personalities, Jake Paul made a successful professional debut with a first-round knockout of AnEsonGib in a co-main event of a DAZN card at the Meridian at Island Gardens in Miami. AnEsonGib was aggressive early in the bout, but he found himself unable to handle the
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10:34 PM ET Joseph Diaz Jr. and Tevin Farmer traded a lot of harsh words in the lead-up their fight on Thursday night, but it was Diaz who had the last laugh. Diaz, in the finest performance of his career, overcame a horrendous cut over his left eye suffered in the second round to win
6:18 PM ET Demetrius Andrade defends his WBO middleweight world title against Luke Keeler in the main event of a DAZN card at the Meridian at Island Gardens in Miami. But before that, two other title fights and a battle between two YouTube personalities are set to take place on the undercard. In the co-main
1:21 PM ET The New York State Athletic Commission has suspended Ivan Redkach’s boxing license for one year after the welterweight bit Danny Garcia during their title elimination bout on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The commission announced Thursday that it “issued the maximum fine [to Redkach] of $10,000 for engaging in dangerous,
2:08 PM ET Former lightweight world titlist Devin Haney, recovering from shoulder surgery, told ESPN on Wednesday that he is on course for a ring return this summer. “My shoulder is good, it’s healing up,” Haney said from Miami, where he was doing media rounds along the Super Bowl’s radio row with plans to attend
10:16 AM ET Representatives for junior middleweight world titlist Patrick Teixeira and mandatory challenger Brian Castano made a deal for the fight late Tuesday. Eric Gomez, the president of Golden Boy Promotions, which promotes Teixeira, and Castano promoter Tom Brown of TGB Promotions cut a deal around 11 p.m. ET Tuesday, thus avoiding a purse
8:37 AM ET Steve KimESPN On Jan. 23, trainer Manny Robles announced that he was no longer training Andy Ruiz Jr. After defeating Anthony Joshua back in June to capture the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles, Ruiz was the feel-good story of 2019. But then Ruiz showed up to the rematch in Saudi Arabia
8:07 AM ET A “big fight.” It’s what all boxers, not to mention fans and media, talk about wanting. Of course, the fighters want to win world titles and make the money that goes with them, but they also want the big one — a career-defining showdown that will help shape their legacy, serve as
5:08 PM ET Representatives for unified heavyweight world titlist Anthony Joshua and mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev are close enough to making a deal that on Monday they asked the IBF for a second extension of their deadline. “(We are) making great progress and closing in on a deal,” Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn told ESPN
12:55 PM ET When the welterweight fight between former two-division world titlist Danny Garcia and Ivan Redkach was made, anyone who says they did not expect Garcia to win by knockout in New York — aside, perhaps, from Redkach and his team — is probably being less than honest. So although Garcia dominated on Saturday