9:25 PM ET Junior welterweight Anthony Yigit and bantamweight Jason Moloney, who both turned in admirable performances in losses fighting for world titles in World Boxing Super Series quarterfinal bouts in October, are both on the comeback trail. Yigit (21-1-1, 7 KOs), 27, a southpaw from Sweden, will return to face Mohamed Khalladi (10-7-1, 5
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3:38 PM ET Junior featherweight world titlist Rey Vargas has a scar that stretches across one of the knuckles on his left hand to remind him of one of the reasons he has not fought for nine months. Last May, during the third or fourth round of a defense of his 122-pound belt against Azat
1:07 AM ET The troubled World Boxing Super Series, hobbled by financial issues that caused a variety of late payments to fighters with some bonus payments missed altogether in the quarterfinals, is attempting to carry on with the semifinal rounds in its three second-season tournaments. On Wednesday, Comosa AG, which owns the tournaments, announced that
1:50 PM ET Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star, is returning to the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for his middleweight world-title-unification fight against Daniel Jacobs on May 4, Golden Boy Promotions made official on Wednesday. Ever since the 160-pound megafight was signed in mid-January, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya said that T-Mobile
4:28 PM ET Junior lightweight world titlist Miguel Berchelt suffered a right hand injury in recent days, forcing him to postpone his rematch with former titlist Francisco Vargas. The Mexican countrymen had been scheduled to fight on March 23 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing on
2:46 AM ET Josh Warrington will defend his IBF featherweight title against mandatory challenger Kid Galahad after Frank Warren’s Queensbury Promotions won the purse bid for the fight. The purse bid scheduled on Tuesday for the mandated rematch between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury has been postponed for one week.
4:49 PM ET Richard Commey, who won a vacant lightweight world title on Saturday night, has his next fight already signed for April 12, and it’s a big one, as long as his sore right hand is healthy. Commey is supposed to fight pound-for-pound king and two-belt lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko to unify their
10:22 AM ET Steve KimESPN The great thing about social media is that you can express yourself for the world to see. And the worst thing about social media is that you can express yourself for the world to see — and those messages are embedded in perpetuity. Last year was a frustrating one for
10:23 PM ET The purse bid scheduled on Tuesday for the mandated rematch between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury has been postponed for one week. The sides have been negotiating the bout, but a purse bid had been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at WBC headquarters in Mexico City in the
6:08 PM ET When former three-division world titleholder Abner Mares withdrew last Wednesday from his shot at junior lightweight world titlist Gervonta Davis, he cited an elbow injury he had suffered in a sparring session as the reason. While Mares did indeed have discomfort in his right elbow, Mares has admitted that the real reason