9:32 PM 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 LONDON — Anthony Joshua has given Deontay Wilder a deadline of December to agree terms to face him on April 13. The WBA-IBF-WBO world
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6:00 PM ET LONDON — It is a mark of Anthony Joshua’s unwavering self-belief and champion quality that as he stood in the ring post-fight — while Alexander Povetkin sat, catching breath and taking stock — the focus was already on April 13 next year, and a potential unification fight with Deontay Wilder. There was
6:00 PM 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 LONDON, England — Luke Campbell got revenge over Yvan Mendy with a unanimous points win in a WBC world lightweight title eliminator on Saturday.
11:06 PM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and former world champion Tyson Fury finalized their deal Friday night, and Premier Boxing Champions announced the fight would take place Dec. 1. It was a highly unusual announcement with a news release touting that “the contracts are signed and the fight is on,” and that the
7:15 PM ET In 2009 and 2010, then-featherweight world titleholder Yuriorkis Gamboa and Juan Manuel “Juanma” Lopez, a junior featherweight world titlist who would move up in weight to win a featherweight belt, were rising pound-for-pound stars on a collision course boxing fans were salivating over. However, with both seeking big money that was not
1:11 PM ET For several weeks over the summer it looked as though boxing fans would get their wish, a fall fight between the world’s top two heavyweights — undefeated knockout artists Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder — for the undisputed title. Great Britain’s Anthony Joshua takes on Russian Alexander Povetkin in a huge world
7:28 PM ET Middleweight Diego Pacheco, a 17-year-old, eight-time amateur national champion from Los Angeles and much sought-after prospect, is turning pro. Unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua went through the paces of a public workout on Wednesday at York Hall in London, just days before he will make his sixth defense against Alexander Povetkin.
11:43 AM ET Manuel Charr, who was due to defend his secondary heavyweight world title against Fres Oquendo in a mandatory fight on Sept. 29 in Cologne, Germany, has tested positive for two banned substances, the anabolic steroids epitrenbolone and drostanolone, and the fight has been canceled. On Wednesday night, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association, which
12:21 AM ET Unified middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez might be back in the ring in short order following his narrow majority decision win to claim the world title from Gennady Golovkin in the year’s biggest fight on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez eked out the victory 115-113, 115-113 and 114-114 in
6:50 PM ET Floyd Mayweather isn’t just planning for another fight with Manny Pacquiao in a rematch of their record-setting 2015 welterweight title unification bout, he is planning for a tuneup fight first — in Japan. Mayweather, who has been on a trip to Japan, on Saturday announced that he was coming out of yet