5:27 PM ET Featherweights Bryan De Gracia and Eduardo Ramirez will meet in world title elimination bout announced Monday that is a late addition to Saturday’s Brian Castano-Erislandy Lara card at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. De Gracia-Ramirez will open the Showtime-televised tripleheader (9 p.m. ET). The fight was added to the card when
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9:22 AM ET LONDON — Anthony Joshua has vowed to reconstruct Jarrell Miller’s face and take on a new profession as his surgeon when they meet in New York on June 1. After last week’s bad-tempered press conference in New York where Miller pushed Joshua in the face-off, this was a more cordial affair in
2:58 PM ET The World Boxing Super Series, which has been hampered by serious financial issues and the prospect of having No. 1 junior welterweight seed Regis Prograis pull out of the tournament, has worked out a deal to keep him in and scheduled his semifinal bout against world titlist Kiryl Relikh. They will meet
1:35 AM ET If Anthony Dirrell indeed decides to retire from boxing, as he spoke openly about doing following his fight Saturday night, he can walk away with a world title, but one he obtained with mild controversy. Dirrell won a super middleweight world title for the second time as he claimed a 10-round technical
12:31 AM ET Steve KimESPN In a battle of former lightweight belt holders past their physical primes, Humberto Soto defeated Brandon Rios over 12 rounds by unanimous decision Saturday in Tijuana, Mexico. The scores were 119-111, 118-112 and 118-112 in the junior middleweight contest. Soto (69-9-2, 37 KOs), a grizzled veteran, showed at age 38
11:46 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show LONDON — When Chris Eubank Jr. fell off his chair before the post-fight press conference, it was about the only mistake he had made
7:41 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show LONDON — Chris Eubank Jr. erased doubts over whether he could beat elite-level super middleweights by scoring a unanimous-decision victory over James DeGale on
7:34 PM ET When Top Rank promoter Bob Arum announced that he had signed lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to a co-promotional deal with Frank Warren on Monday to bring his fights to ESPN platforms it changed the dynamic of the possibility for a rematch with world titleholder Deontay Wilder. Wilder and Fury were already
6:19 PM ET Steve KimESPN Coming off his revenge victory over Eleider Alvarez, look for an early summer return of WBO light heavyweight titlist, Sergey Kovalev. According to Kathy Duva, the head of Main Events, “We’re waiting for a date in June on ESPN.” Kovalev (33-3-1, 28 KOs) on Feb. 2 decisively outpointed Alvarez —
5:04 PM ET Unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua came to New York this week to get the ball rolling on promoting his American debut against Brooklyn’s Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller and they put on a spirited war or words. There was even a little shoving mixed in at their kickoff news conference, but besides