Boxing

3:02 PM ET Former middleweight world titlist Rob Brant has an opponent for his ring return. He will face former super middleweight world title challenger Habib “Wild Hurricane” Ahmed, Top Rank announced Thursday. The 10-round middleweight fight will be the co-feature of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card headlined by light heavyweight Jesse Hart

4:40 PM ET After Andy Ruiz Jr. scored a monumental upset by knocking out Anthony Joshua to take his three heavyweight world title belts on June 1 at sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York, he came to the post-fight news conference wearing a New York Knicks jersey. It was a night that Ruiz, who

3:00 PM ET Middleweight knockout artist Edgar Berlanga and junior welterweight Josue Vargas, two promising Top Rank fighters, will box in front of their hometown fans on Dec. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Top Rank announced their bouts on Wednesday along with the rest of the undercard fights that will stream on

1:31 PM ET When the International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot was released in late September it had swelled to 41 fighters in the modern boxer category because of tweaks made to when a fighter could be eligible for the first time. But as many greats as there were on the ballot, three first-timers stood

Dec 4, 2019 Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: This was originally published ahead of Crawford’s fight against Jeff Horn on June 9, 2018. OMAHA, Neb. — Grover Wiley was 25, six years into a pro career that would see him retire the great Julio Cesar Chavez. Terence Crawford Jr. — “Bud,” as everyone called him —

1:35 AM ET Steve KimESPN Andy Ruiz was a 10-1 underdog when he turned the boxing world on its head in June, stunning Anthony Joshua with a seventh-round knockout at Madison Square Garden. He took three world titles in the process and handed Joshua the first loss of his career. Ruiz stepped in as a

12:04 PM ET In the end, former featherweight world titlist Oscar Valdez made a successful debut in the junior lightweight division by stopping game Adam Lopez in the seventh round of a highly competitive fight on Saturday night. But what happened the previous day cannot be ignored. That is when Andres Gutierrez arrived at the

7:14 PM ET Middleweights Liam Williams and Alantez Fox will meet in a world title elimination bout on Dec. 21 at the Copper Box Arena in London, promoter Frank Warren said Sunday. The winner of the fight will be positioned for an eventual mandatory shot at the 160-pound world title held by Demetrius Andrade (28-0,

12:29 AM ET Former featherweight world titlist Oscar Valdez made a successful move up to the junior lightweight division — just not against the opponent he thought he would be facing – and earned a shot at a world title in a very tough fight. Valdez survived a second-round knockdown and some shaky moments to

1:23 AM ET Steve KimESPN It was certainly an eventful night of boxing at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, where a pair of former featherweight world titleholders dipped their toes into the 130-pound division and began to lay the foundation for their future plans. Both Oscar Valdez and Carl Frampton came out victorious, although Frampton