Boxing

12:43 AM ET Former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder marked his much-anticipated return to the boxing ring with a thunderous knockout punch that stopped Robert Helenius in the opening round of their bout at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Saturday night. A punch like that one declared Wilder’s intentions to

Oct 15, 2022 Mike Coppinger Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Devin Haney picked up where he left off in the rematch with a second unanimous-decision victory over George Kambosos Jr. to retain the undisputed lightweight championship

Oct 15, 2022 Claressa Shields jumped up and down in the ring, having gone to the United Kingdom to fight a British fighter and still come out of the toughest bout of her career as the undisputed middleweight champion of the world. Again. Shields beat Savannah Marshall by unanimous decision (97-93, 96-94, 96-94) in London

2:19 PM ET Claressa Shields will once again try to unify all four major women’s middleweight world titles when she faces Savannah Marshall in the main event of an all-women card at the O2 arena in London on Saturday (ESPN+, 2:30 p.m. ET). This is the first of two major boxing cards on ESPN+ on

Oct 15, 2022 As promised, George Kambosos Jr has presented in supreme physical condition at an explosive, chaotic weigh-in for Sunday’s world lightweight title rematch with Devin Haney in Melbourne. Unlike before his first fight with Haney in June, Kambosos comfortably made weight at 134.08 pounds, easily under the 135-pound limit, before mayhem broke out

11:41 AM ET UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) is investigating Conor Benn after he failed a drugs test ahead of his highly anticipated fight with Chris Eubank Jr., the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) said on Friday. The bout between welterweight Benn and super middleweight Eubank Jr., set at a catchweight of 157 pounds, was called

7:48 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Devin Haney pressed forward and threw shots with bad intentions, pinning his sparring partner along the ropes. Weeks before Haney traveled to Australia for his second consecutive fight against George Kambosos Jr., he was putting the finishing touches on his American training camp, his first as undisputed

7:47 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Deontay Wilder returns to the ring on Saturday for the first time since his knockout loss to Tyson Fury in their trilogy fight a year ago. He’ll face Robert Helenius at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York (Fox PPV, 9 p.m. ET). Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) possesses a powerful

7:45 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall headline an all-women card at the O2 in London on Saturday (ESPN+, 2:30 p.m. ET) in a fight to crown the undisputed middleweight champion. Shields and Marshall are the best two fighters in the division — and two of the best in the entire

5:07 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 Naoya Inoue will attempt to become undisputed world bantamweight champion when he faces Paul Butler at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday,