6:45 PM ET In July 2010, eight months before Canelo Alvarez won his first world title as a 20-year-old junior middleweight, he was ringside in Las Vegas as a spectator at the lightweight championship rematch between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz. On that night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, in one of the
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11:13 AM ET Steve KimESPN They say that as one door closes, another one opens. And as the door was slammed shut on an immediate rematch between WBC heavyweight titlist Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury, it may have put Luis Ortiz — who faces Christian Hammer on Saturday at the Barclay Center —
4:36 AM ET Former world champion and Olympic gold medalist James DeGale has announced his retirement from boxing. DeGale’s decision comes 10 years to the day since making his professional debut, but he has now decided to hang up the gloves after suffering a unanimous points defeat against Chris Eubank Jr. at the weekend. The
5:26 PM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia will make his mandatory defense against Dennis Hogan on April 13 at the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez told ESPN on Wednesday. The fight, which will be streamed on DAZN in the United States, was due to be put up
2:05 PM ET Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said on Wednesday that despite the decision for lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to pass on an immediate rematch with world titleholder Deontay Wilder that would have taken place this spring or early summer, the goal remains to make the fight for this fall. “I’m assuring you
11:24 AM ET Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions sent a cease-and-desist letter to Floyd Mayweather Jr., according to the Los Angeles Times, following Mayweather’s offer of $200,000 to super featherweight Ryan Garcia if he can beat one of his fighters; the offer is seen as one of many instances of tampering by Golden
12:30 AM ET The World Boxing Super Series second-season cruiserweight tournament will set up its final with the two semifinals taking place on the same card. Tournament organizers announced on Tuesday that the semifinal between former world titleholder Yunier Dorticos and Andrew Tabiti has been added to the card headlined by the other semifinal between
6:45 PM ET The expected immediate rematch between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury won’t happen next. With a purse bid looming, a deal for a rematch was nearly complete when Fury unexpectedly signed a co-promotional deal with Top Rank last week that would bring his fights to ESPN platforms. There
1:34 PM ET Super middleweight contender Avni Yildirim and promoter Ahmet Oener met with WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman on Tuesday in Mexico City in an effort to have the sanctioning organization order a rematch of Yildirim’s loss in a world title fight on Saturday night. Yildirim lost a 10th-round technical split decision to Anthony Dirrell
9:54 PM ET Super middleweight world titleholder Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, who is moving up to the light heavyweight division, announced on Monday that he will head into his new weight class with a new trainer in Julian Chua. Ramirez not only has parted ways with Hector Zapari, who had trained him since he was 12