8:48 PM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Canelo Alvarez shot back Friday at statements made by his most recent opponent, Sergey Kovalev, who suggested he took the Nov. 2 title bout against Alvarez for the paycheck despite a grueling schedule. Alvarez scored an 11th-round knockout to grab Kovalev’s light heavyweight world title at
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7:06 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — An appeals court has refused to revive a lawsuit filed by fight fans and pay-per-view subscribers upset that boxer Manny Pacquiao wasn’t completely healthy for an intensely watched 2015 bout with Floyd Mayweather Jr. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Thursday that
Nov 22, 2019 Steve KimESPN The World Boxing Council announced Friday that it is implementing a new method for judging the effectiveness of its judges — and will be doing so in real time. “Basically, it’s a system that is aimed at evaluating ring officials,” said Mauricio Sulaiman, the head of the WBC. “We’re doing
1:15 PM ET Flyweights Julio Cesar Martinez and Cristofer Rosales will square off for a vacant world title on Dec. 20, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn said on Friday. The fight will take place at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix and serve as the co-feature for the DAZN card scheduled to be headlined
9:06 AM ET At this point, it’s the only question worth asking: Who will win Saturday’s heavyweight world title bout between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas? Wilder (41-0-1, 40 KOs), who holds the WBC world title, defeated Ortiz by 10th-round TKO in March 2018. Since then,
8:43 PM ET Junior welterweight Ryan Martin has been suspended for four years by UK Anti-Doping because he tested positive for two banned substances following his fight with Josh Taylor on Nov. 3, 2018. Taylor knocked out Martin in the seventh round of their quarterfinal bout in the World Boxing Series tournament at the SSE
4:28 PM ET Floyd Mayweather says he’s definitively done with his in-ring boxing career, citing health concerns and recent deaths in the sport. The undefeated boxing legend has returned from retirement in the past, most recently for a 2017 blockbuster fight against UFC star Conor McGregor. But Mayweather said at the opening of his Mayweather
4:37 AM ET Boxing referees and judges involved in the Rio Olympics, who were all suspended following the Games, will not be allowed to officiate at Tokyo 2020, an International Olympic Committee (IOC) task force said on Wednesday. All 36 referees and judges from Rio 2016 were suspended in the wake of the Games as
11:15 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and challenger Luis “King Kong” Ortiz may differ on who they believe will win their rematch, but one thing they did agree on when they met on Wednesday for the final pre-fight news conference inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena was how the fight
4:30 PM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia, who all along planned to move up in weight in 2020, will do so for his next fight. Munguia, one of boxing’s most crowd-pleasing battlers, will move up to the 160-pound middleweight division to fight Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan, a fellow brawler but prohibitive underdog, in a