6:08 PM ET An already significant Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on Feb. 2 headlined by the Eleider “Storm” Alvarez-Sergey Kovalev light heavyweight title rematch was expanded to a four-fight show on Wednesday that will play out over the main network as well as ESPN+. Top Rank announced on Wednesday that the card will
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1:27 PM ET Former super middleweight world titlist David Benavidez will return from a rocky 13 months out of the ring to box on March 16 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, promoter Sampson Lewkowicz said Wednesday. Benavidez will face an opponent to be determined in a 10-round bout in one of the televised fights
6:17 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 Dillian Whyte has banished all thought of Anthony Joshua from his mind as he focuses on facing Dereck Chisora at London’s O2 Arena on
4:59 PM ET The Boxing Writers Association of America has finalized the ballot for its 2018 awards in eight categories. The nominees for the organization’s most prestigious award, the Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year award, are: • Undisputed cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs), who won the eight-man World Boxing Super
Dec 17, 2018 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 Josh Warrington believes Carl Frampton is past his best ahead of their world featherweight title fight Saturday. IBF champion Warrington was unimpressed by Frampton’s
7:24 PM ET Manny Pacquiao tuned 40 on Monday, the same day his team announced the three fights that will serve as the televised undercard for his secondary welterweight title defense against Adrian Broner on Jan. 19 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The co-feature of the Showtime PPV card will be a vacant
4:10 PM ET Claressa Shields, the three-belt unified women’s middleweight world titleholder, added another significant line to her growing resume Monday when the Boxing Writers Association of America named her as the recipient of the 2018 Christy Martin Award for female fighter of the year. Shields, 23, of Flint, Michigan, won the second annual award
4:33 PM ET Opening Bell: Canelo-Jacobs the right fight NEW YORK — Canelo Alvarez’s Madison Square Garden party went as virtually everyone expected, which is why there was so much discussion about what his next move would be even before the bout took place. Alvarez, in his first fight since the narrow decision over Gennady
7:05 AM ET Carl Frampton has not had an alcoholic drink for nearly a year and he believes it will help him win a world title again when he fights Josh Warrington at the Manchester Arena on Saturday. The former world featherweight and super-bantamweight champion made a New Year’s resolution to stay teetotal and insists
12:52 AM ET NEW YORK — Saturday night was about more than what happened in the ring for Canelo Alvarez. Sure, if Rocky Fielding had pulled a Rocky Babloa and scored one of the biggest upsets in boxing history by defeating Alvarez it would have changed everything but that was never close to becoming a