1:54 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — An Ohio judge awarded $830,000 to a woman who claimed former boxing champion Adrien “The Problem” Broner sexually assaulted her at a Cleveland nightclub. The default judgment was delivered Tuesday after Broner failed to defend himself in the lawsuit. The Cincinnati native was accused in the lawsuit and
Boxing
Dec 19, 2019 Steve KimESPN Just two months shy of Tyson Fury’s anticipated rematch with WBC world titleholder Deontay Wilder on Feb. 22, the lineal heavyweight champion switched trainers. Fury split with head trainer Ben Davison, a move Davison announced on social media Dec. 15. Shortly thereafter, Fury made a post of his own, in
12:45 PM ET Who is the world’s best fighter, regardless of weight class? Check out ESPN’s latest top 10. Terence Crawford scored a TKO victory over Egidijus Kavaliauskas, and some of our panelists, including ESPN boxing commentator Joe Tessitore, were impressed by his performance. Crawford’s effort against Kavaliauskas “only further solidifies my feelings,” said Tessitore,
9:06 PM ET Lineal junior featherweight world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux, who planned to move down to the bantamweight division to fight for a title, will have to wait. He was due to fight as a bantamweight for the first time in his career against former junior bantamweight world titlist Liborio Solis with a vacant secondary
8:28 PM ET Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was granted a temporary restraining order by a Nevada State Court judge on Tuesday, clearing the way for him to fight Daniel Jacobs on Friday night following weeks of controversy. Chavez and fellow former middleweight world titlist Jacobs are due to meet in a 12-round super middleweight fight
9:40 AM ET Canelo Alvarez, who moved up two weight divisions and won a light heavyweight world title last month, vacated his 175-pound belt on Tuesday. Alvarez relinquished the WBO title in order to “comply with the World Boxing Organization’s prohibition against its champions holding titles from other sanctioning organizations in multiple weight classes.” Alvarez
2:56 PM ET The Boxing Writers Association of America has finalized the ballot for its 2019 awards in nine categories. In addition to handing out its most prestigious honor, the Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year award, the Joe Louis Fighter of the Decade will also bestowed. The nominees for fighter of the decade
11:49 AM ET NEW YORK — In the lead-up to welterweight world titlist Terence Crawford’s defense against “Mean Machine” Egidijus Kavaliauskas, the pound-for-pound star was asked about getting a big fight against one of the other elite fighters in his deep weight division almost as much as he was asked about Kavaliauskas. Weary of the
11:18 AM ET Katie Taylor has been selected as the 2019 Christy Martin award winner for female fighter of the year by the Boxing Writers Association of America, the organization announced on Monday. Taylor won over nominees Amanda Serrano and Mariana Juarez in the voting of the seven-person committee of made up of women’s boxing
8:07 PM ET Former four-division world titleholder Mikey Garcia used the occasion of his 32nd birthday Sunday to announce that he will return to the ring Feb. 29 to fight in the main event of a DAZN-streamed card under a deal he has made with promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing. Terms of the agreement