Boxing

1:39 AM ET Steve KimESPN INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Juan Francisco Estrada defeated Srisaket Sor Rungvisai by unanimous decision to capture the WBC junior bantamweight title Friday night at the Forum in a rematch of last year’s battle that Sor Rungvisai won by majority decision. All three judges scored the fight for Estrada, 116-112 and 115-113
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8:00 PM ET BRISBANE, Australia — Former world welterweight champion Jeff Horn says he would relish an opportunity to fight Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez and prove to everyone he is no one-fight-wonder. Horn (19-1-1, 13 KOs), 31, famously defeated Manny Pacquiao in 2017 to become top dog in the welterweight division, but it didn’t last
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1:31 AM ET BANGKOK — Amit Panghal (52kg) picked up his second successive gold medal of the year, while Pooja Rani (81kg) finished on top among the women to bring an end to India’s phenomenal campaign in the Asian Boxing Championships here Friday. India ended the event with 13 medals — two gold, four silver
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4:33 PM ET Junior lightweight Masayuki Ito traveled from Japan to the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, and won a vacant world title last July, and he will return to that location to make his second defense. Ito will take on 2012 U.S. Olympian Jamel Herring there in the main event of a Top
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3:38 PM ET Mikey Garcia, who has won world titles in four weight divisions and is regarded as one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best, vacated his lightweight belt on Thursday. The WBC, whose title Garcia held, also announced that it has given Garcia the rare designation of “champion emeritus,” meaning that should Garcia decide to return
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6:53 PM ET The changes keep coming for former unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin. On Wednesday, Golovkin announced perhaps the biggest change of all — that he has parted ways with longtime trainer Abel Sanchez, who was an integral part of his success since they got together for Golovkin’s first world title bout in
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