12:20 AM ET The seeds were handed out and the brackets determined for the eight-man World Boxing Super Series junior welterweight and bantamweight tournaments at the draft gala Friday at the Rossiya Theatre in Moscow. With all 16 competitors on hand for the event — which took place on the eve of the cruiserweight final
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9:42 PM ET Junior lightweight Lamont Roach Jr. (17-0-1, 7 KOs) rebounded from a controversial draw in his previous fight to score a TKO victory over Deivi Julio Bassa (20-5, 12 KOs) at the start of the seventh round in a scheduled 10-rounder on Friday. The bout was the main event of a Golden Boy
1:24 PM ET As Jaime Munguia gets set to make the first defense of his junior middleweight world title, he holds no ill will toward the Nevada State Athletic Commission. In fact, now he rather appreciates the decision executive director Bob Bennett made earlier this year. When the rematch between unified middleweight world champion Gennady
10:19 AM ET When the organizers of the World Boxing Super Series launched their tournaments in late 2017, the hope was they would produce exciting fights and, in the process, an undisputed world champion. Still, they had to sign fighters with the hardware to make it a reality. It won’t happen when the first season’s
9:21 PM ET Lightweight Teofimo Lopez Jr., perhaps boxing’s No. 1 prospect, will undergo right hand surgery on Friday morning in Los Angeles. In what was supposed to be his toughest test as a professional, Lopez, 20, injured his hand in the first round of a one-sided sixth-round knockout of William Silva, whom he knocked
7:27 AM ET Three-division world titleholder Terence “Bud” Crawford, one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best boxers in the world, won the award for best fighter at the 2018 ESPYS on Wednesday night, ESPN’s annual sports awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Crawford won from a field that also included Top Rank stablemate and fellow three-division titleholder Vasilily
9:38 PM ET The final two slots in the eight-man World Boxing Super Series junior welterweight tournament that begins this fall were filled on Wednesday with Ryan “Blue Chip” Martin and former lightweight world titlist Terry Flanagan, tournament organizer Comosa AG announced. “I’m very happy to compete in the World Boxing Super Series and look
9:36 AM ET Although junior lightweight Lamont Roach Jr. remains undefeated, the Upper Marlboro, Maryland, prospect is still smarting from the only blemish on his record, a 10-round draw with Orlando Cruz in April 2018. Instead of an intended step up in the quality of opposition, the bout with the Puerto Rican veteran turned out
10:17 AM 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 LONDON, ENGLAND — Anthony Joshua declared his fight with Alexander Povetkin is the start of a new chapter in his career and believes he
Jul 16, 2018 Manny Pacquiao has laid down the gauntlet to Floyd Mayweather to make a return to the ring for a rematch of their 2015 clash after the Filipino took the Welterweight title belt against Lucas Matthysse. On Sunday, Pacquiao scored his first knockout since his 2009 TKO of Miguel Cotto and he is