10:05 AM ET Former middleweight world titleholder Billy Joe Saunders is moving up to super middleweight and will face Shefat Isufi for a vacant world title, promoter Frank Warren announced on Monday. The fight is scheduled to take place on April 13 at the SSE Wembley Arena in London. The fight was announced as being
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7:25 AM ET Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and promoter Frank Warren have signed a deal under which Fury will be co-promoted by Top Rank, they announced Monday. Fury will have his future bouts co-promoted by Top Rank and Warren’s Queensberry Promotions with the deal calling for a minimum of two bouts per year in
3:55 AM 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 James DeGale has said Chris Eubank Jr. is “too arrogant” to benefit from using a full-time trainer for the first time. Former IBF world
8:32 PM ET The fight between secondary heavyweight world titlist Manuel Charr and mandatory challenger Fres Oquendo, already long overdue, has been canceled. The fight was on at least its third date — April 6 in Munich — but was canceled when Oquendo failed to sign the contract by Friday’s deadline, Patrick English, the attorney
2:07 AM ET Steve KimESPN Leo Santa Cruz successfully defended his WBA featherweight title by defeating the game Rafael Rivera over 12 rounds, winning on all three scorecards by a tally of 119-109 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. So what was learned on Saturday night? Santa Cruz needs challenges Leo Santa Cruz, right,
11:18 PM ET Featherweight world titlist Leo Santa Cruz came into his defense against late replacement Rafael Rivera on Saturday night as a massive favorite and talking about possible major fights he had his eyes on. But Santa Cruz also insisted he would not overlook Rivera, and that showed in his dominant performance. He put
1:47 AM ET Steve KimESPN It was a joyous homecoming for Rob Brant, who defended his WBA regular middleweight title by scoring an 11th-round stoppage of Khasan Baysangurov on Friday night at the Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota. The fight was the main event of a card that was broadcast live on ESPN. Not content
5:57 PM ET Unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua isn’t the only significant Matchroom Boxing fighter headed to the United States for his next bout. Also on the way are undisputed cruiserweight world champion and consensus 2018 fighter of the year Oleksandr Usyk and former welterweight world titlist Kell Brook, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn
2:43 PM ET Featherweight world titleholder Leo Santa Cruz has enjoyed a great deal of success. He’s won world titles in three weight classes, had major fights with Abner Mares and Carl Frampton — each of whom Santa Cruz faced twice — and he’s made several million dollars over the course of his career. But
12:02 PM ET Steve KimESPN Technically, while the main event on Saturday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles is the WBA featherweight title tilt between Leo Santa Cruz and Rafael Rivera, it is the co-feature between welterweights John Molina Jr. and Omar Figueroa Jr. that could steal the show. If you go by