12:44 PM ET Former cruiserweight world titlist Yunier Dorticos, known as “The KO Doctor,” was one of the participants in the first season of the World Boxing Super Series and he is back for the second season, hoping to advance deeper than he did last time. In the first season, Dorticos retained his title in
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3:19 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 Tony Bellew insists Billy Joe Saunders — banned from making a world title defence this Saturday — is not a drugs cheat, telling ESPN
3:45 PM ET While unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez is set to get back to business by fighting secondary super middleweight world titlist Rocky Fielding on Dec. 15 armed with a brand new record-breaking contract with sports streaming service DAZN, his rival and former champion, Gennady Golovkin, is taking his time figuring out his
1:55 PM ET Junior featherweight world titlist Isaac Dogboe is in a New York state of mind. The “Royal Storm” will make his second title defense against Emanuel Navarrete on Dec. 8 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, Top Rank announced Wednesday. Isaac Dogboe will once again defend his junior
4:26 AM ET As the old saying goes, as one door closes, another one opens. Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions stable of fighters, including Canelo Alvarez, the unified middleweight world champion and boxing’s biggest superstar, have long been stalwarts of HBO. But with the premium cable network’s recent announcement that after 45 years
7:22 PM ET Former two-time world title challenger Miguel Marriaga will go for his second win in a row when he takes on Jose Estrella in a featherweight fight on Nov. 3 on a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card, Top Rank announced on Tuesday. The scheduled eight-round fight will be on the undercard of
4:21 PM ET Light heavyweight world titlist Dmitry Bivol will defend his belt on Nov. 24 at the Mark G. Etess Arena at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, just not against the opponent he expected to be facing. Bivol will make his fourth defense against former world champion Jean
9:44 PM ET Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced ages ago that he would put on his third “Monte Carlo Boxing Bonanza” on Nov. 24 at the famed Le Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco, but on Monday he announced the fights that will be featured on the show. Headlining the card, which will stream live
8:39 PM ET Light heavyweight world titleholder Artur Beterbiev will defend his title for the second time when he takes on contender Joe Smith Jr. later this year, their promoters told ESPN on Monday. The fight comes as a surprise because Smith had been close to finalizing a deal to challenge Dmitry Bivol for his
3:50 PM ET Opening Bell: Here we go again We’ve been through it all before — the agony and misery as fans of watching big fights get made (or not made in some cases) wait and hope for something to happen. The seemingly never-ending talks for Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao were horrendous