9:00 AM ET Boxing promoter Frank Warren says Billy Joe Saunders plans to sue the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission over his cancelled fight with Demetrius Andrade. Saunders was denied a boxing license by the organisation on Tuesday after failing a voluntary drugs test and will miss out on the chance to defend his WBO middleweight
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10:04 PM ET Featherweight Shakur Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist and one of boxing’s elite prospects, said on Wednesday that he is just rolling with the punches of a last-minute opponent change for his fight on Saturday night. While a bout between British rivals Amir Khan and Kell Brook is inching toward the
11:14 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Looking back, he understands the shooter had been waiting for him. Maybe it was the same guy who torched his Mercedes earlier that spring. Or not. Either way, it was pushing midnight, and his girlfriend was doing the dishes. So Jose Benavidez Jr. decided to walk his pets that night,
4:14 AM ET The role of villain may not come naturally to Anthony Mundine but he embraced it on Tuesday, vowing to expose Jeff Horn as “hype” in the final fight of his 18-year boxing career. Mundine confirmed his November 30 bout with ex-world champion Horn at Suncorp Stadium would be his last and clearly
11:06 PM ET Junior bantamweight world titleholder Jerwin Ancajas has held his belt for more than two years — longer than any other titlist in the division — and made six successful defenses, but so far the unification fight he wants has eluded him. But there is a glimmer of hope that one can happen
2:37 AM ET Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya has a fight to promote between superstar Canelo Alvarez and super middleweight titlist Rocky Fielding on Dec. 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York, but the broadcast outlet remains up in the air and he plans to take his time sorting it out.
12:10 AM ET Lineal heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury finally enrolled in the WBC’s Clean Boxing Program on Monday. Fury is due to challenge world titleholder Deontay Wilder for that sanctioning body’s heavyweight world title belt on Dec. 1 in the main event of a Showtime PPV card at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
4:05 PM ET Opening Bell: Off to a good start When Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn and executives from DAZN scheduled the first American-based card of Hearn’s eight-year, $1 billion deal with the new sports subscription streaming service for Saturday night in Chicago, little did they know the competition they would be facing. As it
2:46 PM ET Although heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury wrapped up a three-city media tour last week to promote their Dec. 1 Showtime PPV showdown at Staples Center in Los Angeles and are headed for training camp, one critical aspect of the agreement is not in place yet. Fury has
9:37 AM ET Naoya Inoue has made an electrifying start to his World Boxing Super Series campaign after landing a brutal knockout on quarterfinal opponent Juan Carlos Payano in the first round of their contest in Tokyo. Inoue [17-0, 15 KOs] is the second seed in the inaugural WBSS bantamweight tournament, behind Britain’s Ryan Burnett,