11:24 AM ET Former world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis believes Anthony Joshua does not want to fight either Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury for now and is happiest being protected in England. Both Wilder and Fury have been mentioned as potential opponents to the Briton for his next fight in the wake of their impressive
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Dec 24, 2018 LONDON — It was a repeat for Dillian Whyte as he produced an emphatic knockout of rival Dereck Chisora in Round 11 on Saturday night in London to set up a big 2019 that could potentially see a shot at unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua. It was a back-and-forth battle at
1:00 PM ET Middleweight world titleholder Daniel Jacobs, the second-most coveted boxing free agent behind former unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, has made the rounds and will soon decide on his landing spot. “Danny and I have had several meetings over the last few weeks discussing his next move. All major platforms have shown great
6:04 PM ET Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn will kick off his 2019 slate of American-based cards for sports streaming service DAZN on Jan. 18 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York with middleweight world titleholder Demetrius Andrade in the main event, he made official on Friday. Andrade (26-0, 16 KOs),
10:14 AM ET Steve KimESPN As word began to circulate in the boxing world last weekend that Willie Monroe Jr. — who was scheduled to face WBC interim middleweight titleholder Jermall Charlo on Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York — might have failed a drug test, organizers of the event quickly scrambled for
3:48 PM ET For the past several weeks, it would have been hard to watch a Fox-televised NFL game without being introduced to boxers and twin brothers Jermall and Jermell Charlo. Commercial break after commercial break there were promotional spots for the card they will share on Saturday (Fox, 8 p.m. ET) at Barclays Center
6:57 AM ET Anthony Joshua receives his OBE, becoming an Officer of the Order of the British Empire Kirsty O’Connor – WPA Pool/Getty Images Already the WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua added another title to his collection at Buckingham Palace on Thursday — his OBE. Would he have preferred to be awarded Deontay
1:01 AM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — The promoter for Adonis Stevenson says the boxer remains unconscious and has not improved since doctors sedated him and put him on a ventilator after a Dec. 1 knockout loss. Promoter Yvon Michel said Thursday “doctors do not venture an opinion on what lies ahead” for the 41-year-old
4:06 PM ET A pair of world title bouts from Japan will stream live on ESPN+ on Dec. 30 after Top Rank announced on Thursday that it has acquired the United States rights for the platform. Junior lightweight titlist Masayuki Ito will make his first defense against Evgeny Chuprakov in the main event at the
7:31 PM ET The much-discussed fight between junior lightweight world titleholder Gervonta “Tank” Davis and former three-division world titlist Abner Mares is on. Mares will move up in weight from the featherweight division to challenge Davis for his belt in a Showtime-televised main event on Feb. 9 at the Dignity Health Sports Park — the