12:45 PM ET You’ve got to hand it to Gus Dorazio. He took it to Joe Louis and went down swinging. When the prohibitive underdog launched a wild left hook in the second round, Louis beat him to the punch with a short right inside the challenger’s looping offering. Gus fell face-first and was counted
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2:15 PM ET Former light heavyweight world champion Adonis Stevenson underwent emergency brain surgery following his knockout loss Saturday night and remains in a medically induced coma, his doctor confirmed Wednesday. “Mr. Stevenson underwent surgery on the night of Saturday to Sunday and has since been admitted to the intensive care unit,” Dr. Alexis Turgeon,
5:25 PM ET The International Boxing Hall of Fame will make room for a Cobra, a Hawk and a Buddy this summer. Former welterweight and junior middleweight world champion Donald Curry, known as “The Lone Star Cobra,” Julian “The Hawk” Jackson, who won world titles at junior middleweight and middleweight, and James “Buddy” McGirt, who
8:06 AM ET Steve KimESPN Jose Pedraza is tasked with one of the most difficult assignments in all of sports this weekend at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City: Figuring out a way to decipher Vasiliy Lomachenko. While this is a lightweight unification tilt, with Pedraza (25-1, 12 KO) coming
1:04 AM ET Former unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, the premier boxing broadcast free agent, met for four hours on Tuesday with DAZN executive chairman John Skipper and Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn in Los Angeles, where he fielded the “best offer” for a contract with the subscription sports streaming service and the promoter, a
2:00 PM ET Who is the best fighter regardless of weight class? See ESPN’s P4P rankings. Click here Check out my rankings within each division by clicking on the links below. If there is a lineal champion in a weight class, he is ranked No. 1. For a list of the current champions in all
5:45 AM ET Deontay Wilder has said a potential rematch with Tyson Fury will end the “controversial talk” surrounding the fight “once and for all”. Saturday’s bout between WBC heavyweight champion Wilder and lineal champion Fury ended in a disputed split draw at Staples Center. Although Wilder dropped Fury twice during the fight, the Englishman
8:40 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Long before the heavyweight world championship fight between titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury was made, Wilder’s team tried to finalize a deal for Wilder to face three-belt unified titlist Anthony Joshua for the undisputed crown. Wilder agreed to take a bad deal: a $15 million flat
4:27 PM ET Welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford has been trying to land a fight with a big-name opponent and he just might get it for his next assignment, which is penciled in for March 23 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Top Rank, Crawford’s promoter, is negotiating the bout with Amir Khan, the
Sep 25, 2018 Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko has done so much in his brief but brilliant professional boxing career, including tying the record for fewest fights needed to win a world title (3) and setting the record for fewest fights needed to win titles in two divisions (7) and three divisions (12). Now lightweight world