12:14 PM ET Associated Press UVALDE, Texas — Police say a 12-year-old boy has been charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a boxer at the victim’s South Texas home. Uvalde police said Thursday that the boy is charged in the slaying of John Duane VanMeter and is being held at a juvenile
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6:32 PM ET Junior lightweight world titlist Tevin Farmer traveled to Billy Dib’s turf in Australia, where he won a vacant world title last summer. For his third defense, Farmer will be the one who gets to have a world title fight at home. Farmer will defend his 130-pound belt against Ireland’s Jono Carroll on
1:37 PM ET Featherweight world titleholder Leo Santa Cruz has a new opponent for his third defense: Rafael “Big Bang” Rivera. Santa Cruz (35-1-1, 19 KOs), 30, of Los Angeles, was scheduled to fight Miguel Flores in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on Feb. 16 (Fox, 8 p.m. ET) at the
4:16 PM ET Steve KimESPN As Jaime Munguia makes the third defense of his WBO junior middleweight title against Takeshi Inoue (13-0-1, 7 KOs) Saturday night at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, a familiar face will be leading him into battle. Robert Alcazar, for years the lead trainer of Hall of Famer Oscar De
6:35 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 Lennox Lewis has told promoter Eddie Hearn “to stop milking the cow” and make the world heavyweight title unification fight between Anthony Joshua and
10:14 PM ET Manny Pacquiao can still draw a pay-per-view audience. Pacquiao’s dominant unanimous decision victory over Adrien Broner to retain his secondary welterweight world title for the first time Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas generated a robust 400,000 buys on Showtime PPV, a source with knowledge of the
7:05 PM ET Despite suffering one of the most horrendous cuts in recent ring history, former two-division world titlist Badou Jack laughed it off a few days later. “It might not look pretty, but I’m a fighter not a model,” Jack said on a call with a few boxing reporters to discuss his gruesome injury
11:08 AM ET Heavyweight Joe Joyce, the 2016 British Olympic super heavyweight silver medalist, will take on the first name opponent of his career in former world titleholder Bermane Stiverne, organizers announced on Wednesday. The scheduled 12-round fight will take place on Feb. 23 at the O2 Arena in London on the undercard of the
3:44 PM ET Former middleweight world titlist Billy Joe Saunders had his six-month suspension for a failed drug tested lifted by the WBO and the sanctioning organization named him its 160-pound mandatory title challenger in a ruling it issued Tuesday. Despite a Round 1 TKO loss in his last bout and not much success as
11:15 PM ET Manuel Charr, who holds a secondary heavyweight world title, had his suspension for a failed drug test lifted by the WBA and was ordered to make a mandatory defense against Fres Oquendo within 60 days, according to a resolution the sanctioning body issued on Monday. In November, the WBA suspended Charr for