5:46 PM ET Former middleweight world titleholder David Lemieux, due to move up to the super middleweight division on May 4, has suffered a right hand injury, causing his 12-round bout with John Ryder to be canceled, Golden Boy Promotions announced Wednesday. The Lemieux-Ryder bout was supposed to serve as the co-feature on the DAZN
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1:43 PM ET Former three-division world titlist Kazuto Ioka and former title challenger Aston Palicte will collide for a vacant junior bantamweight world title on June 19 at the Osaka Prefectural Gym in Osaka, Japan, Roy Jones Jr. Boxing Promotions has announced. The bout will mark the first world title fight to stream on UFC
1:03 AM ET Ricardo “Hindu” Espinoza and John Riel Casimero will meet for a vacant interim bantamweight world title on Saturday after the WBO ruled in favor of the petition filed trying to force the bout last week. The WBO ruled on Tuesday that Espinoza (23-2, 20 KOs), 21, of Mexico, and Casimero (26-4, 17
9:45 PM ET Heavyweight contender Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller has tested positive for the banned substance GW1516 ahead of his scheduled challenge of unified world titleholder Anthony Joshua, three sources with knowledge of the results told ESPN on Tuesday night. The fight is due to take place on June 1 at New York’s Madison Square
Mar 26, 2019 Who is the best fighter regardless of weight class? See ESPN’s P4P rankings. Click here Check out my rankings within each division by clicking on the links below. If there is a lineal champion in a weight class, he is ranked No. 1. For a list of the current champions in all
11:35 PM ET Former two-division world titleholder Zab Judah, idle for nearly 1½ years and having boxed only twice since 2013, is returning to the ring and hopes to compete eventually for a seventh belt. The 41-year-old Judah will take on fellow New Yorker Cletus Seldin on June 7 at the Turning Stone Resort Casino
4:06 PM ET Opening Bell: Lomachenko is the man LOS ANGELES — Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko, the unified lightweight champion, is everything fans should want in a prizefighter. He fights regularly. Always comes in shape. Always entertains. No ducking either, because he’s willing to fight the best opponents available. And he has skills so supreme
7:07 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — One of two brothers who say actor Jussie Smollett paid them to help him stage a racist, anti-gay attack against himself has won an amateur boxing title in Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reports that Abimbola “Abel” Osundairo became a Chicago Golden Gloves champion with a technical knockout Friday
2:19 AM ET The 12-round super middleweight bout between Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillin and “Golden” Caleb Truax ended in a no-contest at the end of the second round on Saturday after an accidental head-butt opened a deep gash between Truax’s right eye and nose. The ringside doctor ruled that the cut was down to the
1:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Jaime Munguia should consider himself very fortunate, if not downright lucky, to have retained his WBO junior middleweight title versus Dennis Hogan. While the three judges in Monterrey, Mexico, had him winning by scores of 114-114, 115-113 and 116-112, the majority of observers believe the challenger should have had his