2:19 PM ET Deontay Wilder has issued an apology to the man inside the mascot costume he punched while appearing on an ESPN show. World heavyweight champion Wilder was encouraged to demonstrate his punching power by striking the mascot on ESPN Nacion. Heavyweights Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury nearly came to blows Wednesday while wrapping
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11:34 PM ET OMAHA, Neb. — Blue-chip prospect featherweight prospect Shakur Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, has been asking for Top Rank to step up his competition. He got his wish and looked sensational on Saturday night at the CHI Health Center. Stevenson scored three knockdowns in a spectacular first-round knockout performance against
1:54 AM ET OMAHA, Neb. — As welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford continued to take the trash talk, disdain and knockout threats from Jose Benavidez Jr., he had one constant response: Wait for the fight, and he would shut him up. That’s just what Crawford did — and in style — as he outclassed Benavidez
8:47 PM ET OMAHA, Neb. — Welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford and challenger Jose Benavidez Jr. started their fight a tad early. After both made weight Friday, they went nose-to-nose for a face-off, which was a bit too close for comfort for Benavidez, who gave Crawford a two-handed shove in the chest. Crawford responded by
3:20 PM ET OMAHA, Neb. — After Terence Crawford, one of boxing’s elite fighters, gave up the undisputed junior welterweight world title and moved up to welterweight, where he laid waste to Jeff Horn in a one-sided ninth-round knockout win in June to claim a belt in a third weight division, the pressing question was
1:27 AM ET Anthony Mundine says Jeff Horn’s trainer may get the ex-world boxing champion hurt if they pursue plans to earn a re-match with American Terence Crawford. Horn’s trainer Glenn Rushton revealed their camp was still seething over the way the Australian lost his WBO world welterweight belt to Crawford in June, insisting the
3:00 PM ET Faced with the likelihood of being stripped of his middleweight world title for testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug, Billy Joe Saunders on Thursday vacated the 160-pound belt. On Tuesday, the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission rejected Saunders’ application for a boxing license for the positive test for the powerful banned stimulant
12:40 PM ET With only four professional fights under his belt, Russian bantamweight Mikhail Aloyan has by far the least experience of any of the participants in the World Boxing Super Series tournaments, be it the two that took place in the recently competed first season or the three just getting started in the second
10:04 PM ET Former welterweight world titleholder Victor Ortiz pleaded not guilty Wednesday to sexual assault charges, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. Ortiz, 31, had turned himself in last month and was charged with forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and forcible digital penetration. A woman had first contacted police in March and
6:37 PM ET The Massachusetts State Athletic Commission on Tuesday denied middleweight world titleholder Billy Joe Saunders a boxing license because of his recent failed drug test for the banned performance-enhancing stimulant oxilofrine, meaning his upcoming fight is canceled and that the WBO likely will strip him of its 160-pound belt. Saunders, who will lose