9:19 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN LAS VEGAS, NV. – For centuries now, fighting has been the Fury family business. A clan of Irish Travellers, the Furys were fighters – the bare-knuckle variety, mostly – the way other families were cobblers or farmers or blacksmiths. They’ve fought in mineshafts and quarries, in pubs and on street
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Jun 11, 2019 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 No world titles will be on the line when Tyson Fury faces Tom Schwarz live on ESPN+ on Saturday night, but Fury argues that
10:46 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury — meaning he’s the man who beat the man who beat the man, etc., regardless of belts — is as happy as ever. That’s a far cry from when he won the championship by decision in a big upset against Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
8:00 PM ET Former heavyweight world title challengers Dereck Chisora and Artur Szpilka will square off on July 20 at the O2 Arena in London, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced Thursday. It’s another notable heavyweight fight added to a card that already is headlined by the showdown between top contender Dillian Whyte and Oscar
9:54 AM ET Warren Yiu Jason Moloney is chuffed. He’s just come off beating his twin brother, Andrew, in an intense game of table tennis. Jason (18-1, 15 KOs) currently holds both the WBA Oceania and Commonwealth bantamweight titles. Andrew (19-0, 12 KOs) is the current WBA Oceania and Commonwealth junior bantamweight titleholder. He also
1:14 PM ET Bantamweight Jason Moloney, of Australia, faces Tanzania’s Goodluck Mrema in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at the Seagulls Rugby League Club, Tweed Heads, New South Wales in Australia, on Saturday at 6 a.m. ET. Moloney (18-1, 15 KOs) challenged Emmanuel Rodriguez for the IBF bantamweight world title
9:57 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 Josh Warrington is becoming one of the U.K.’s most popular boxers and on Saturday makes a second defence of his IBF world featherweight title
Jun 13, 2019 Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A vandal has painted the words “racist,” “antisemitic” and “homophobe” on a mural of boxing champ Muhammad Ali in Kentucky. The words were painted in orange over Ali’s portion of the “Kentucky Rushmore” mural that features other icons from the state, including Abraham Lincoln. The mural is
10:35 PM ET Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is in Las Vegas to fight, but by the look of things Wednesday, he might as well have been auditioning for his own stage show. The larger-than-life Fury, who defends his crown against Germany’s unbeaten Tom Schwarz on Saturday (ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET, with preliminaries on ESPN2
8:14 AM ET One of the tattoos on heavyweight Tom Schwarz’s right arm reads “FUTURE,” which could turn out to be quite apropos depending on how things go for him in his next fight. Perhaps he will be the future lineal heavyweight champion of the world. Schwarz has the unexpected opportunity of a lifetime as