11:26 AM ET Valentine’s Day is for love, but this year it will also be for fighting, at least in the case of rising lightweight star Ryan Garcia. Garcia will face former two-time world title challenger Francisco Fonseca in a 12-round bout on Feb. 14 (DAZN) at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, Golden Boy
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6:26 AM ET Junior bantamweight Kazuto Ioka and flyweight Kosei Tanaka, who were boxing on a traditional New Year’s Eve card in Japan, each retained his world title on Tuesday at the Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo. In the main event, Ioka held on to his 115-pound belt thanks to a surge in the
2:51 PM ET Chinese promoter Longjoy Sports on Monday surprisingly won the purse bid for the mandatory fight between unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev and Meng Fanlong after their promoters were unable to make a deal. Longjoy Sports, which has worked with Fanlong promoter Roc Nation Sports in the past and will co-promote
8:05 AM ET Steve KimESPN An entertaining year for the sport of boxing just ended. There were plenty of unification bouts and an abundance of legitimate fight of the year candidates. And that momentum should carry into 2020. The first couple of months in 2020 look promising, with these top 10 fights standing out among
12:59 AM ET Gervonta “Tank” Davis, one of boxing’s top young stars, moved up to lightweight and won a belt in a second weight division, dropping Yuriorkis Gamboa three times en route to a one-sided 12th-round knockout victory on Saturday night at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Although Davis dominated the fight to claim a
11:53 PM ET Light heavyweight world titlist Jean Pascal and former titleholder Badou Jack sparred together in 2014 and have been friends for years, so much so that before Pascal’s last fight in August, Jack called him to wish him good luck. But whatever friendship exists between Pascal and Jack they put it aside and
12:00 PM ET The highly anticipated Feb. 22 rematch between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury is now official with a site deal complete and tickets ready to go on sale on Saturday. Top Rank and Premier Boxing champions announced on Friday that the fight, as expected, will take place at
7:20 AM ET The decade started with world heavyweight title fights in Manchester, ended in Saudi Arabia with a British boxer regaining the heavyweight championship and in the middle, the British boxing business was booming. British boxers went on the road, winning and losing in massive world title fights, filling arenas all over the world;
8:14 AM ET Two-time junior lightweight world titlist Gervonta “Tank” Davis is the cornerstone of Showtime’s boxing franchise — a super-aggressive crowd-pleaser with fast hands and explosive power in the mold of a young Mike Tyson, only about 90 pounds lighter. At 25, Davis is probably not yet in his prime. But his move up
1:36 PM ET The heavyweight fight between Joe Joyce, the unbeaten contender on the rise, and former cruiserweight world titlist Marco Huck has been called off. Joyce and Huck were due to fight on Jan. 11 in Hannover, Germany, in a crossroads fight for the vacant European heavyweight title. However Huck has announced that he