9:20 AM ET BENDIGO, Australia — Jeff Horn’s dream of another title fight appears to be all but over after the former world welterweight champion suffered a shock loss to Michael Zerafa at Bendigo Stadium on Saturday night. In his first fight since flooring Aussie icon Anthony Mundine in Brisbane last December, Horn looked slow,
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10:44 AM ET Associated Press LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The IOC has detailed a “fair and transparent pathway to the Olympic Games” for male and female boxers trying to qualify for Tokyo. Four continental qualification tournaments have been confirmed as expected in China, Senegal, Argentina and Britain in a two-month spell from February to April. A
7:59 AM ET In April, pound-for-pound king and unified lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko beat and battered England’s Anthony Crolla, a former world titleholder, in a fourth-round knockout victory to retain his belts at Staples Center in Los Angeles. On Saturday (4 p.m. ET on ESPN+, undercard 1 p.m ET), Lomachenko is poised to defend
4:43 PM ET Coming off a draw and loss in his previous two fights, former longtime junior middleweight world titlist Erislandy Lara made a trainer change he hopes will lead him back to another belt when he meets Ramon Alvarez for a vacant secondary 154-pound world title on Saturday night. Lara will go into the
8:42 PM ET Mark KriegelESPN LONDON — Per his own account, Luke Campbell was an angry, chunky, dyslexic boy of 13 when he walked into St. Paul’s Boxing Academy in the bleak, northern city of Hull. Two weeks later, he had his first fight. “I got my ass kicked,” he recalls. In fact, Campbell kept
12:57 PM ET Former junior welterweight world titleholder Maurice Hooker has announced he will move up in weight to compete in the welterweight division. “I want to give my fans the best possible performances and, therefore, after careful deliberations with my manager (Arnie Verbeek) and promoter (Dino Duva of Roc Nation Sports), I have decided
12:32 PM ET Vasiliy Lomachenko, the WBO and WBA world lightweight champion and ESPN’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, faces England’s Luke Campbell in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at the The O2 Arena in London, England, on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET. Lomachenko, of Ukraine but living in Oxnard, California,
7:55 AM ET Steve KimESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko and Luke Campbell square off on Saturday (ESPN+, 5 p.m. ET) for three of boxing’s four lightweight world titles. It’s a battle between two Olympic champions, with each looking to further secure his legacy. Jorge Linares and Timothy Bradley Jr. are two men who have unique viewpoints on
9:22 PM ET Bantamweight world titleholder Naoya “Monster” Inoue has long admired Nonito Donaire, the four-division world titleholder and likely International Boxing Hall of Famer after he hangs up his boxing gloves. So when the eight-man World Boxing Super Series featuring most of the best 118-pounders kicked off last fall, tournament favorite Inoue hoped that
4:24 PM ET Top Rank on Monday announced the fights that will take place on the undercard of lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s fight with Otto Wallin on Sept. 14 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The main card (ESPN+, 11 p.m. ET) will also include junior featherweight world titlist Emanuel Navarrete making his third