12:40 AM ET Junior lightweight Jason Sosa relentlessly pounded Haskell Lydell Rhodes to the body and scored three knockdowns in a dominating seventh-round knockout victory in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card on Saturday at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia. Sosa, from nearby Camden, New Jersey, and the favorite of
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9:30 AM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia knows the importance to Mexican fighters of boxing on the second weekend of September, which is Mexican Independence Day weekend and one of the biggest boxing dates of the year. With middleweight world champion and Mexican star Canelo Alvarez electing to move to a date late
8:00 PM ET Junior welterweight world titlist Regis Prograis has pulled out of the World Boxing Super Series tournament final. Prograis and Lou DiBella, his promoter, also filed suit against tournament organizer Comosa AG, a Swiss company, in U.S. federal court for the district of New Jersey on Friday. They accused Comosa AG of refusing
1:43 PM ET The heavyweight world title rematch between three-belt titleholder Andy Ruiz Jr. and former titlist Anthony Joshua will take place on Dec. 7 in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing announced on Friday. Hearn was mum on any other details about the event — dubbed “Clash on the Dunes” —
11:52 PM ET Top Rank on Wednesday finalized the undercard for the fight between junior featherweight world titlist Emanuel Navarrete and Francisco “Panchito” De Vaca. The world title bout will headline the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on Aug. 17 at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles. On Wednesday, the undercard bouts
4:02 PM ET Steve KimESPN Bantamweight world titlists Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire will meet in the finals of the World Boxing Super Series bantamweight finals on Nov. 7. The two will square off for the Muhammad Ali Trophy at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Inoue (18-0, 16 KOs), aka “The Monster,” has
12:53 PM ET Steve KimESPN Before Canelo Alvarez took center stage against Daniel Jacobs in the main event during Cinco de Mayo weekend in Las Vegas, a 21-year-old Texan stole the show. On the undercard at the T-Mobile Arena, Vergil Ortiz Jr. dismantled the usually durable Mauricio Herrera in three rounds. The old warhorse, who
9:26 AM ET Featherweight world titlist Josh Warrington will defend his belt for the third time when he meets Sofiane Takoucht on Oct. 12 in a hometown defense at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England, promoter Frank Warren announced on Wednesday. The fight, which will stream live in the United States on ESPN+, was
1:39 PM ET Former junior lightweight world titlist Jason Sosa will face Haskell Lydell Rhodes in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing card Saturday night at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia. The fight will air live on ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET, with undercard bouts also on ESPN+ starting at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Aug 6, 2019 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 Steve Kim After former two-division world titlist Carl Frampton suffered a broken left hand in a freak, non-boxing accident on Monday and had his fight