6:43 PM ET Blue chip lightweight prospect Devin Haney will kick off the new year against fellow undefeated fighter Xolisani Ndongeni in the main event of the first Showtime card of 2019. The scheduled 10-round bout will headline a “ShoBox: The New Generation” triple-header on Jan. 11 (10 p.m. ET/PT) at StageWorks of Louisiana in
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6:01 PM ET Australian boxer Jeff Horn’s inspirational story is set to be brought to the big screen. Sydney-based film production company Unbreakable Films has announced plans for a movie based on Horn’s life. The feature length film, which will be titled “The Hornet,” is set to chronicle Horn’s life from bullied schoolboy to world
10:22 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: This story was originally published on January 31, 2018. HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. — There’s a universal geometry to combat, and Gilberto Ramirez can’t help but recall the grace of the gunman that day: the way he parried with his empty hand, halting the arc of the knife, then
11:23 PM ET Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko, who unified two lightweight world titles Saturday night, will return to the ring on April 12 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN on Tuesday. Lomachenko will headline the Friday night Top Rank Boxing on ESPN or ESPN+ card against an opponent
3:08 PM ET Steve KimESPN Normally, James “Buster” Douglas, the former heavyweight champion of the world, is among the most good-natured and nice individuals you’ll ever come across. That is, except when you call him a one-hit wonder for his exploits on Feb. 11, 1990, when Douglas pulled off what is considered the most shocking
12:38 PM ET Premier Boxing Champions events are coming to the United Kingdom. PBC creator Al Haymon and ITV, a free-to-air British network once the home of many major fights, announced a three-year deal Tuesday that will bring PBC fights exclusively to the network. PBC has multiyear broadcast deals in the United States with Showtime
2:22 PM ET Opening Bell: Lomachenko-Garcia not realistic NEW YORK — After pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko finished scoring a wide, but tough, unanimous decision over Jose Pedraza to unify two lightweight world titles on Saturday night at the sold-out Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, he answered how he always does when the question of
7:00 AM ET Jamie BraidwoodESPN Rocky Fielding has told ESPN he found out about his fight with world middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez while he was putting his one-month-old daughter to bed. WBA super middleweight champion Fielding faces Alvarez on Dec.15 at Madison Square Garden, in a fight that came out of the blue when it
7:00 AM ET GREATER MANCHESTER, England — Rocky Fielding was only five minutes late at the gym when he walked in on his own, carrying his bag and clutching two brand new pairs of sparring gloves and making apologies when none were needed. “I had to do the nursery run and then go to the
2:06 AM ET Steve KimESPN In the final bout of HBO’s storied history in boxing, Cecilia Braekhus (35-0, 9 KO) retained her undisputed welterweight championship by easily outboxing Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes (18-5-3, 1 KO) over 10 rounds in front of a sparse crowd on Saturday at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Two judges had it