1:43 PM ET Opening Bell: Jacobs’ future Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat: Unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez, he of the record-breaking five-year, 11-fight, $365 million contract with new sports streaming service DAZN, is the one who is going to call the shots in the division until further notice. He’s boxing’s
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12:10 AM ET NEW YORK — Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has always loved the idea of taking the shows he is promoting in the United States as part of his long-term deal with new sports steaming service DAZN to cities all over the country in the way he has done with the cards he
12:48 AM ET NEW YORK — Middleweights Daniel Jacobs and Sergiy Derevyanchenko could not have been more familiar with each other before their fight on Saturday night. They have known each other for years – though do not proclaim to be friends — share manager Keith Connolly, trainer Andre Rozier (who stayed with Jacobs) and
11:11 PM ET NEW YORK — Junior lightweight world titlist Alberto Machado’s nickname is “Explosivo” — Spanish for explosive — and he delivered on it big time. Machado dropped Yuandale Evans twice, including for a tremendous first-round knockout, to retain his 130-pound belt for the second time on Saturday night on the Daniel Jacobs-Sergiy Derevyanchenko
5:39 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Kubrat Pulev ended an 18-month exile with a unanimous points win over Hughie Fury to become IBF No. 1 challenger for world heavyweight champion
9:39 PM ET A women’s super fight between unified lightweight world titlist Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, who has won world titles in six weight classes and currently holds a junior welterweight belt, is in the works. Serrano and promoter Lou DiBella have agreed to a three-fight co-promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn,
6:15 PM ET Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is known almost as much, if not more these days, for his outlandish and comical behavior outside the ring than he is for his boxing inside the ring. But Fury was down to business Thursday during his training camp media day at Churchill Boxing Club — the
2:15 PM ET When Daniel Jacobs and Sergiy Derevyanchenko, two of the most highly regarded fighters in boxing’s star-studded and loaded middleweight division, come face to face for a vacant world title there will be no secrets between them. It is not at all uncommon for top fighters to have experience sparring with a future
Oct 26, 2018 Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Apr. 25, 2018 A SMALL, BLACK door, just off a run-of-the-mill corner block in Brooklyn, opens to a dark, narrow flight of stairs that you’d hesitate to descend if not for the pictures of boxers, belts and trophies on the walls. At the bottom,
6:45 PM ET When the International Boxing Hall of Fame prepared the ballots to send to electors last year there were so many quality candidates eligible to be added for the first time that instead of including only three new names — the norm — to replace the three that are elected annually in the