9:11 AM ET WBA “regular” middleweight titleholder Robert Brant faces former titlist Ryota Murata in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at 7 a.m. ET July 12 at the EDION Arena Osaka in Osaka, Japan. Brant (25-1, 17 KOs) won the title with a unanimous decision victory over Murata in October
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10:28 AM ET Steve KimESPN Rob Brant handed Ryoto Murata his second professional loss last fall, and in the process, took Murata’s secondary WBA middleweight title. They meet again in a rematch at the Edion Arena Osaka in Japan on Saturday. Brant’s second title defense offers Murata the same kind of home-field advantage Brant enjoyed
2:21 PM ET A pair of 10-round lightweight bouts have been added to the televised undercard of junior lightweight world titlist Gervonta Davis’ upcoming defense against mandatory challenger Ricardo Nunez. Mayweather Promotions announced on Tuesday that the card on July 27 (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET) at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Davis’ hometown, would
9:51 AM ET Former two-division world titleholder Carl Frampton’s fight on Aug. 10, the first of the co-promotional deal he signed with Top Rank in March, will come against Emmanuel Dominguez, Top Rank announced on Tuesday. They will meet in a scheduled 10-round featherweight in the main event of a card on ESPN+ (main card
4:24 PM ET Opening Bell: Middleweight reality Most would view unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez and former unified champion Gennady Golovkin as the best fighters in the 160-pound division. But with former titlist Daniel Jacobs coming off a decision loss to Alvarez in May and planning to move up to super middleweight, that means
12:23 AM ET PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former heavyweight world titlist Joseph Parker, looking to work his way back into a title fight, got in a good workout in an utterly one-sided, 10th-round knockout of former world title challenger Alex Leapai on Saturday at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center. Parker, fighting in the co-feature of the Demetrius
3:44 AM ET PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Middleweight world titlist Demetrius Andrade wanted to send a message to the two major stars of the middleweight division, unified champion Canelo Alvarez and former unified champion Gennady Golovkin, that he was ready for a mega fight. “Boo Boo” did just that in a triumphant homecoming on Saturday night
9:13 PM ET In progress: Khalid Yafai vs. Norbelto Jimenez, 12 round, for Yafai’s WBA junior bantamweight title Jones II shuts out Arriagada Lightweight prospect Otha Jones III (3-0, 1 KO), 19, of Toledo, Ohio, won a shutout decision — 60-54 on all three scorecards — against Matias Agustin Arriagada (6-5, 3 KOs), 30, of
1:04 AM ET Steve KimESPN TEMECULA, Calif. — IBF lightweight titleholder Richard Commey stopped veteran Ray Beltran in the eighth round Friday night at the Pechanga Resort and Casino. The fight headlined the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card. Commey (29-2, 26 KOs) overwhelmed Beltran (36-9-1, 22 KOs) with his power from the start, sending
12:03 AM ET Steve KimESPN Junior middleweight contender Carlos Adames defeated Patrick Day by unanimous decision Friday night on the undercard of the Richard Commey-Raymundo Beltran lightweight bout in Temecula, California. It was a courageous effort from Day, but at the end he was simply overwhelmed by the power and strength of the heavy-handed Adames,