5:13 PM ET Light heavyweight world titlist Dmitry Bivol, unable to land a major fight in the talent-rich 175-pound division, stayed busy with the expected romp over Lenin Castillo on Saturday night at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. Fighting in the co-feature of former undisputed cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk’s heavyweight debut against Chazz Witherspoon,
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Oct 12, 2019 Junior middleweight Patrick Day, who required emergency brain surgery after suffering a 10th-round knockout at the hands of prospect Charles Conwell on Saturday night, remains in a coma and is in extremely critical condition, according to a statement released Sunday evening by promoter Lou DiBella. “Patrick Day suffered a traumatic brain injury
4:24 PM ET Junior welterweight contender Batyr Akhmedov has gotten his wish for the WBA to order a rematch of his controversial decision loss to Mario Barrios for a vacant secondary junior welterweight world title. The WBA has ordered them to meet in an immediate rematch and given the camps 30 days to negotiate a
4:57 PM ET Middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez is preparing for his move up to light heavyweight to challenge for a world title in a fourth weight division, but he did take time out to watch rival Gennadiy Golovkin’s recent fight and came away unimpressed. Golovkin won a disputed unanimous decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko —
6:04 PM ET Last October, Oleksandr Usyk, the undisputed cruiserweight world champion at the time, found himself surrounded by boxing greats during the WBC’s 56th annual convention. Usyk, in a hotel in his hometown of Kiev, Ukraine, was like a kid in a candy story. Usyk was giddy as he sat with heavyweight royalty in
2:49 PM ET Former middleweight world titlist David Lemieux’s move to super middleweight, which has been delayed since May, has been rescheduled. Lemieux will move up to the 168-pound division and face Max Bursak in a scheduled 10-round bout that will headline a card on Dec. 7 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Eye of
7:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Unified welterweight world titlist Errol Spence Jr. was in stable condition Thursday evening at a Dallas hospital after being involved in a serious one-car accident. “Spence is awake and responding and is listed in stable condition,” his representatives said in a statement. “He didn’t sustain any broken bones or
11:47 AM ET Showtime’s Premier Boxing Champions card on Oct. 26 has undergone a radical change with a main event fighter dropping out and the opening bout of the tripleheader being replaced entirely. Junior middleweight Erickson Lubin will face new opponent Nathaniel Gallimore in the main event of the card (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET) at
9:15 PM ET Heralded light heavyweight prospect Joe Ward, a 2016 Irish Olympian, is scheduled to have surgery on his injured left knee on Friday in New York, co-promoter Lou DiBella told ESPN on Wednesday night. Ward, 25, is expected to be sidelined for at least four months. Ward made his pro debut on last
3:41 PM ET The United States debut of super middleweight world titlist Billy Joe Saunders will come against Marcelo Esteban Coceres. For weeks, Saunders has been ticketed to make his first 168-pound title defense on the undercard of the six-round novelty cruiserweight fight between YouTube stars KSI and Logan Paul on Nov. 9 (DAZN) at