11:59 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN In one of the biggest boxing upsets in recent memory, Spaniard Sandor Martin scored a majority-decision victory over former four-division champion Mikey Garcia on Saturday in Fresno, California. Martin (39-2, 13 KOs) had never competed on the world-level before; this was his first bout outside the U.S. He was meant
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2:42 AM ET Emanuel Navarrete’s face looked clean, like he’d just completed a strenuous run. Across the ring, the face of Joet Gonzalez looked like it was going through what both men were actually doing Friday night — fighting for the WBO featherweight championship. While Navarrete successfully defended his featherweight title with a 118-110, 116-112,
2:52 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Devin Haney is slated to return to the ring Dec. 3 in Las Vegas, the lightweight titleholder told ESPN, a fight he hopes will come against Joseph Diaz Jr. For months, Haney has searched for a topflight 135-pound opponent. He traded barbs with Diaz on Twitter, but the former 130-pound
12:54 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Lightweight star Ryan Garcia announced on Friday that he will undergo surgery on his right wrist, forcing his scheduled Nov. 27 fight with Joseph Diaz Jr. to be be postponed. In a statement, Garcia said he suffered an injury to his right hand during a training session. Surgery is scheduled
2:51 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Deontay Wilder’s vaunted right hand — the most dangerous weapon in boxing — produced two fourth-round knockdowns of Tyson Fury in their all-time great heavyweight title fight Saturday, but the hand was far from 100% during the second half of the bout. Wilder’s co-manager, Shelly Finkel, told ESPN on Thursday
10:35 AM ET As the boxing world moves on from Tyson Fury’s incredible victory over Deontay Wilder, this weekend offers a number of solid fights which include the return of some of the sport’s bigger names. Fight night features the second title defense for WBO featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete. His opponent is Joet Gonzalez (24-1,
4:01 PM ET Junior dos Santos seems to have several options moving forward with his combat sports career following his release from the UFC earlier this year. The former UFC light heavyweight champion will make his professional wrestling match debut Friday for All Elite Wrestling (AEW). And dos Santos told ESPN on Wednesday that he
7:50 AM ET Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury delivered yet another in a long line of great performances to retain his WBC belt, stopping Deontay Wilder in their trilogy fight in Las Vegas. Fury got up from the canvas twice in Round 4, won five of the next six rounds on all three judges’ scorecards and
12:45 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Deontay Wilder just simply wouldn’t go away. Not after a third-round knockdown. Not as Tyson Fury battered him around the ring, round after round. But Fury wore down the challenger, scoring another knockdown in Round 10 before brutally finishing Wilder with a highlight-reel knockout in the 11th
Oct 9, 2021 Mike CoppingerESPN Anthony Joshua exercised his contractual right to an immediate rematch with Oleksandr Usyk for the unified heavyweight championship, Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, announced on Saturday. Hearn said he plans to stage Usyk-Joshua 2 in early spring. “Back in the game and looking for him to become a three-time world champion,”