Boxing

1:17 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The Errol Spence Jr.-Terence Crawford undisputed welterweight championship fight is in jeopardy because of a lingering dispute regarding the contract, sources told ESPN. If the pay-per-view fight set for Las Vegas is finalized, it won’t take place on the targeted date of Nov. 19 but rather in December or even

12:16 PM ET Ebanie Bridges will make the first defense of her IBF bantamweight title on Dec. 10 when she takes on Shannon O’Connell in Leeds, England. The fight will be on the undercard of the Josh Warrington-Luis Alberto Lopez IBF featherweight title fight. Bridges (8-1, 3 KO) last fought in January, when she defeated

11:01 AM ET Junior welterweight Luis Quinones died Thursday night, five days after being hospitalized following a knockout loss to Jose Munoz at Coliseo Elias Chegwin in Barranquilla, Colombia. He was 25. Quinones’ brother, Leonardo Quinones, confirmed his passing on Facebook. “You went ahead of us my loving brother, now you are with your heavenly

5:00 PM ET BIRDSVILLE, Australia — A sea of beer can-clenching, rowdy folk in flannelette shirts and cowboy hats are huddled in near darkness at Fred Brophy’s feet. The Australian outback icon is fitted out in his customary red shirt, faded blue jeans and dark brown boots, crouching on a raised platform and beating a

3:08 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Sunny Edwards will defend his 112-pound title against Felix Alvarado on Nov. 11 in Sheffield, England, the champion’s promoter, Probellum, announced on Thursday. Edwards (18-0, 4 KOs) was in talks for a title unification bout with Julio Cesar Martinez, ESPN’s No. 1 flyweight, but no deal was reached. Instead, Edwards

7:00 AM ET Tyson Fury has urged Anthony Joshua to sign a contract for their proposed bout on Dec. 3. On Monday, Fury said he had called off the fight after Joshua failed to sign the contract within the self-imposed deadline of 5 p.m. on Monday. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn, though, told ESPN the fight

7:31 PM ET Seniesa Estrada will defend her WBA strawweight title against Jazmin Gala Villarino in a co-feature bout on Nov. 12, the first fight of her contract with Top Rank, a source told ESPN on Wednesday. The 30-year-old Estrada (22-0, 9 KO) will be fighting for the first time in 2022. She last fought

12:37 PM ET Women’s boxing titlists Natasha Jonas and Marie-Eve Dicaire are one step closer to bringing all the belts in the junior middleweight division together. Jonas and Dicaire have agreed to a unification fight on Nov. 12 in Manchester, England, putting Jonas’ WBC and WBO and Dicaire’s IBF titles on the line. It’s been

7:50 AM ET While Katie Taylor continues to lead the way in the ESPN women’s pound-for-pound rankings and Amanda Serrano solidified her No. 3 spot with a decision victory on Sept. 24, a few upcoming matchups are surely going to shake the top 10 based on the results. Taylor returns to the ring on Oct.

7:50 AM ET Five years have passed since Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor met in the ring, in what was one of the most lucrative boxing fights in history. And now, we are talking about a possible rematch. While it looks like a long shot at the moment, there was a time when we thought