7:11 PM ET Junior welterweight up-and-comer Arnold Barboza Jr. will face Manuel Lopez in the 10-round co-feature of the rematch between super middleweight world titleholder Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez and Jesse Hart on Dec. 14, Top Rank announced on Thursday. The entire Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card, which will take place at the American Bank
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12:00 AM ET At this point, it’s the only question worth asking: Who will win Saturday night’s heavyweight world title bout between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury at Staples Center in Los Angeles? Our experts make their picks. Dan RafaelESPN.com Wilder by KOFury is bigger than Wilder, has quick hands, quick feet and is a
8:40 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Throughout the dealmaking process and the promotion of their fight, it is obvious that heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury like and respect each other. They don’t even deny it. But despite their positive feelings for each other, they are just days away from trying
4:55 PM ET Unified junior middleweight world titleholder Jarrett Hurd has been soaking in the accolades since unifying belts with an electrifying split decision victory against Erislandy Lara in April, a win he pulled out by scoring a knockdown in the final round — despite a torn rotator cuff — in a fight of the
12:00 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 Tyson Fury will try to become just the third British heavyweight to win a world title fight on American soil when he faces Deontay
10:08 PM ET BRISBANE, Australia — Anthony Mundine may be entering Friday night’s fight at Suncorp Stadium as a rank outsider, but the Australian boxing veteran insists not even a bare-knuckled Jeff Horn would be able to overcome him. Mundine (48-8-0) has always excelled in the trash-talking department and it was again on full display
10:43 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN LOS ANGELES — The bigger the fight, the more relentlessly produced is its prologue: tour, pressers, interviews, media days, an endless stream of snippets and bytes eventually blended into a video collage. No, it’s not the fight, merely a high-tech vaudeville, choreographed in the name of commerce. But it’s real.
1:58 AM ET BRISBANE, Australia — While he wouldn’t go so far as to say Anthony Mundine was a boxing idol, Jeff Horn admits the polarising Australian veteran was someone he looked up to and thought was “pretty cool” when he first took up the sport as a bullied teenager. Anthony Mundine has again declared
1:46 PM ET The super middleweight fight between Mexican countrymen Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Alfredo Angulo, scheduled to take place Saturday at Staples Center in Los Angeles, was canceled Monday, Premier Boxing Champions announced. The scheduled 10-round fight was scheduled to air on Showtime as part of a telecast of preliminary bouts before the
2:17 PM ET Opening bell: Light heavyweight debate The light heavyweight division is one of the most interesting in boxing. It is loaded with talented fighters who make entertaining fights. And while there is no clear-cut No. 1 guy in the weight class, at least there is activity among the best, even if it seems