12:33 AM ET A few days before Claressa Shields met Christina Hammer for the undisputed women’s middleweight world championship on Saturday, Shields made clear how the fight would go and what she wanted people to say when it was over. “When I beat Christina Hammer on Saturday, I want everyone’s headline to say, ‘Shields nails
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9:32 PM ET Steve KimESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko’s right hand injury, suffered during his KO victory over Anthony Crolla Friday night, is not as serious as previously feared, Lomachenko’s manager, Egis Klimas, confirmed to ESPN on Saturday. “His knuckle, it’s just dislocated, no surgery needed,” Klimas said after an MRI was performed in a Los Angeles
3:23 AM ET Steve KimESPN LOS ANGELES — Vasiliy Lomachenko made quick work of Anthony Crolla, needing just four one-sided rounds to defend his two lightweight world titles in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN card Friday night at Staples Center. Crolla (34-7, 13 KOs) had been a durable fighter in his
12:46 AM ET Unified lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko knocked out mandatory challenger Anthony Crolla in the fourth round to retain his belts Friday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Lomachenko scored a knockdown in the final seconds of the third round and finished the job with a hard right hook to the head,
11:58 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Super middleweight world titlist Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez made the move up to the light heavyweight division and turned in a dominating performance on Friday night at the Staples Center. Ramirez, who still holds the 168-pound belt he has defended five times, laid a beating on Tommy Karpency before Karpency’s
12:53 PM ET Former junior middleweight world titleholder Austin Trout and former title challenger Terrell Gausha would each like another opportunity at the belt but will have to go through each other to get closer to one. They will fight each other in a 10-round bout in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions
11:17 AM ET NEW YORK — Claressa Shields is sitting at the bottom of the stairs of the Title Boxing Club in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of midtown Manhattan, an hour early for the event of which she is the star, waiting. The first one here other than the promoters of the event, she’s not
6:01 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Unified lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and former titlist and mandatory challenger Anthony Crolla both made weight with seeming ease on Thursday. They will square off in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card on Friday (ESPN+, 11 p.m. ET main card, 8 p.m. ET
8:32 AM ET Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko has always been vocal about the kinds of fights he wants: big ones. He wants to win as many belts in as many divisions as he can, and he wants title unification fights. In just 13 professional bouts, Lomachenko, a two-time Olympic gold medalist from Ukraine and viewed
9:41 PM ET At this point, it’s the only question worth asking: Who will win Friday night’s lightweight title bout between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Anthony Crolla at Staples Center in Los Angeles? Our experts make their picks. Dan RafaelESPN.com Lomachenko by decisionCrolla is a solid pro and former world titlist who has faced good opposition