11:15 PM ET Former two-division world titlist Carl Frampton punched his way into a shot at a belt in a third weight class on Saturday night inside The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Former junior featherweight and featherweight titlist Frampton moved up to junior lightweight, dropped Tyler McCreary twice with body shots and
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5:10 PM ET Steve KimESPN John Riel Casimero captured the third world title of his career as he stopped the favored Zolani Tete in three rounds in Birmingham, England to win the WBO bantamweight championship. After a relatively slow and tactical beginning to this fight, which was controlled by the long and angular southpaw from
5:53 PM ET Steve KimESPN The bout between former WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez and Andres Gutierrez, scheduled for Saturday night in Las Vegas, was canceled Friday because Gutierrez came in more than 11 pounds over the 130-pound limit set for the bout. Valdez will now face Adam Lopez, Top Rank Promotions said. The bout,
Nov 26, 2019 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 Carl Frampton is hoping a victory on his next fight catapults him into a world title fight later this year. Frampton is going up
9:14 AM ET Steve KimESPN The last two or three excruciating pounds felt like losing 20 for Oscar Valdez. Making the 126-pound weight limit was becoming a more arduous grind than the fights themselves. But Valdez, despite the physical and mental battle that had left him dried out and fatigued, had done it. Valdez headlined
12:08 PM ET Former featherweight world titleholders Oscar Valdez and Carl Frampton each make their debut in the junior lightweight division in separate fights on Saturday night and Top Rank chairman Bob Arum told ESPN that each has a world title fight at stake. Arum, who promotes both fighters, said he has a plan in
2:23 PM ET Unified junior middleweight world titlist Julian “J Rock” Williams is going home to Philadelphia to make his first title defense. Williams will defend his two 154-pound belts against Jeison Rosario in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on Jan. 18 (Fox, 8 p.m. ET) at Temple University’s Liacouras Center,
11:39 AM ET Despite ongoing issues over a failed drug test in July, heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte will face former world title challenger Mariusz Wach on Dec. 7, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced on Wednesday. The scheduled 12-round bout has been added to the card headlined by the rematch between unified heavyweight titlist Andy
11:14 PM ET The WBO has stripped Mairis Briedis of its cruiserweight world title. In late October, the organization ordered Briedis to defend the 200-pound title in a rematch against former titlist Krzysztof Glowacki, whom Briedis had controversially knocked out in the third round June 15 in Riga, Latvia — Briedis’ hometown — to claim
8:20 PM ET Junior middleweight contenders Carlos Adames and Patrick Teixeira had the stakes raised for their upcoming fight on Tuesday. Adames and Teixeira are scheduled to fight on the Oscar Valdez-Andres Gutierrez undercard at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Saturday (ESPN+, 6:30 p.m. ET), but instead of the bout being a world title