12:12 AM ET Steve KimESPN Miguel Berchelt (37-1, 32 KOs) dominated Jason Sosa (23-4-4, 16 KOs) by fourth-round TKO to retain his WBC junior featherweight title Saturday night at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. The fight was stopped at 2 minutes, 56 seconds when Sosa’s corner threw in the towel. It was
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8:02 PM ET 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 Former world lightweight champion Anthony Crolla was left relieved to end his career on a high note after he salvaged a majority decision win
10:09 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has been temporarily suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, putting his proposed super middleweight bout with Daniel Jacobs on Dec. 20 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in jeopardy. Bob Bennett, the executive director of the Nevada commission, told ESPN on Friday that Chavez
9:02 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez didn’t seem to have any worries at all after light heavyweight world titleholder Sergey Kovalev was initially overweight for their bout at the weigh-in Friday inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Alvarez, the reigning middleweight world champion, is moving up two weight classes from 160 pounds to
9:11 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Many boxing fans would have liked to have seen middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star, face rival and former unified titleholder Gennadiy Golovkin for a third time after two highly entertaining but disputed bouts — a draw in 2017 and a majority decision win for Alvarez in
9:10 AM ET Steve Kim Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today There’s a big fight taking place Saturday in Las Vegas that features boxing’s biggest star, middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez, going up in weight
Oct 31, 2019 Mulitple Contributors Crown Jewel marked WWE’s fourth major show in Saudi Arabia and a pair of unique participants in Tyson Fury and Cain Velasquez took the spectacle to new heights as they stepped into the WWE ring for their first matches. Tim Fiorvanti, Matt Wilansky and Marc Raimondi recapped all the action
12:13 AM ET Steve KimESPN Top Rank announced on Thursday that Mexico’s Jonathan Rodriguez was unable to obtain a visa to enter the United States, which has caused the postponement of his bout against junior bantamweight world titlist Jerwin Ancajas on Saturday at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. “This is a weird
2:55 PM ET Heavyweights Alexander Povetkin has fought for a heavyweight world title and Michael Hunter would like to. The former Olympians will square off in an elimination bout with the winner putting himself in position to get that eventual opportunity. Povetkin and Hunter will meet in the co-feature of the rematch between unified heavyweight
9:19 AM ET At this point, it’s the only question worth asking: Who will win Saturday’s light heavyweight world title bout between Canelo Alvarez and Sergey Kovalev at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas? Alvarez (52-1-2, 35 KOs), a middleweight champion, is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Daniel Jacobs in May.