12:00 AM ET FAIRFAX, Va. — All along, Julian “J Rock” Williams said it made no difference to him that he was going to challenge Jarrett Hurd in front of his home-region fans, because they couldn’t get in the ring and help. And when the boxers were done battling for 12 hellacious rounds Saturday in
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10:34 PM ET Manny Pacquiao will challenge welterweight world titleholder Keith Thurman on July 20 in the main event of a Fox pay-per-view, Premier Boxing Champions announced on Saturday night during its telecast of the Jarrett Hurd-Julian Williams junior middleweight world title fight. The fight likely will take place in Las Vegas, but no site
7:21 PM ET Harold Lederman, the International Boxing Hall of Famer who devoted his life to the sport and became one of its beloved figures as HBO’s longtime unofficial judge, died Saturday at a hospice care center in New City, New York, after a long battle with cancer, HBO confirmed. He was 79. Lederman, a
5:49 PM ET Jermall Charlo, a professional boxer since 2008, has boxed only twice in his hometown of Houston but has wanted to fight there again. Now he will have his chance when he defends his interim middleweight belt for the second time when he takes on Brandon Adams on June 29 in the main
May 9, 2019 FAIRFAX, Va. — “Swift” Jarrett Hurd, the unified junior middleweight world titleholder, will be the first to admit that he’s become a homebody even though that was not always the case. When Hurd, who is from Accokeek, Maryland, turned professional in 2012, he spent the first two years of his career fighting
1:09 PM ET Andrew Cancio’s knockout of Alberto Machado to win a junior lightweight world title will go down as one of the upsets of the year, but Machado will have a chance to avenge the defeat. Cancio will make the first defense of his 130-pound belt in a rematch with Machado, who had the
9:22 AM ET Steve KimESPN When you ask Isaac Dogboe to reflect on his December loss to Emanuel Navarrete, the former junior featherweight world titleholder has an unusual response: He’s sorry. “I’d like to apologize to all the fans who were disappointed in my performance,” said Dogboe, who until his unanimous decision loss to Navarrete
1:44 AM ET The show goes on, but with blue-chip lightweight prospect Devin Haney ascending to the main event. Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn said Thursday that his card on May 25 (DAZN) will go forward and remain at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, but with Haney (21-0, 13 KOs), 20, of
1:17 PM ET Featherweight world titlist Oscar Valdez will make his sixth defense on June 8 — just not against the opponent originally anticipated. Valdez defend his 126-pound belt against Jason Sanchez in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on June 8 (ESPN and ESPN Deportes, 10 p.m. ET with
4:37 AM ET BRISBANE, Australia — It might be almost two years on, but Australian boxer Jeff Horn says he still has to deal with people telling him he should not have won his world championship fight against Manny Pacquiao. Horn (19-1-1, 13 KOs), 31, rose to prominence in July of 2017 after scoring a