Sep 13, 2019 Middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez will climb two weight divisions to challenge light heavyweight world titlist Sergey Kovalev in a fight that was finalized Friday. They will meet Nov. 2 (DAZN) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez did not demand a catchweight in an attempt to drop Kovalev
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10:17 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Less than a month ago, junior featherweight world titleholder Emanuel Navarrete defended his belt, but in throwback fashion, he will be back in the ring Saturday night for another defense, this one against Juan Miguel Elorde. That sort of quick turnaround is generally unheard of in today’s era of
Sep 5, 2019 Steve KimESPN Ask Tyson Fury a question — any question — and he’ll answer it as bluntly as possible. It doesn’t matter the setting, the talkative heavyweight lineal champion never shies away from verbally letting his hands go. Back in June, Fury made his Las Vegas debut by stopping Tom Schwarz in
9:14 AM ET One evening long ago, as I peered at my Algebra 2 textbook, completely flummoxed, my father said, “If you can name every heavyweight champion of the world, in order, from John L. Sullivan to Sonny Liston, you should be able to memorize these formulas.” Dad made sense, but I couldn’t relate to
10:49 PM ET Unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez will be out of action for the rest of the year because of a left hand injury that required surgery combined with a packed fall schedule that left him without a date when he would able to return. Ramirez had surgery on his hand in
8:22 AM ET Heavyweight lineal champion Tyson Fury of England faces Sweden’s Otto Wallin in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday at 11 p.m. ET. The undercard will air at 7:30 p.m. ET, also on ESPN+. Fury (28-0-1, 20 KOs), 31, scored a
8:20 AM ET In 1959, Ingemar Johansson traveled to New York and upset Floyd Patterson to win the heavyweight championship, knocking him down an astonishing seven times en route to a third-round TKO victory at Yankee Stadium. Although Patterson regained the title by fifth-round knockout in an immediate rematch with Johansson and then knocked him
10:42 PM ET Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury sure knows how to entertain. When the British big man came to the ring for his Las Vegas debut on June 15 for what turned out to be a second-round knockout of then-undefeated Tom Schwarz, he did so wearing a black robe and hood to somber music
9:21 AM ET With the messy business issues between junior welterweight world titlist Regis Prograis and the organizers of the World Boxing Super Series resolved and Prograis having rejoined the tournament, he is as confident as ever that he will win the eight-man tournament final. “I am not going to predict what round I will
7:30 AM 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 Tyson Fury can ill afford to have an off night against Otto Wallin on Saturday on ESPN+, as he needs a victory to set