Sep 8, 2018 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 Amir Khan hopes to set up a return to the big time by providing another demolition job in his second comeback fight on Saturday
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9:55 PM ET The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York — already one of the world’s busiest venues for big-time boxing — is going to remain that way. The arena has struck a deal with Premier Boxing Champions to become its official East Coast home arena, giving Barclays Center exclusivity with the outfit in the
6:24 PM ET Top Rank, looking to beef up its roster because of the numerous dates it has under its seven-year deal with ESPN, announced Friday that it has signed four fighters, including former junior featherweight world titlist Jonathan Guzman. “All of these guys will fight before the end of the year and a lot
Sep 6, 2018 The breakout success of former pound-for-pound king and four-division world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez a few years ago paved the way for some of boxing’s smallest fighters to gain tremendous exposure. It was Gonzalez, thanks to a series of exciting fights on Gennady Golovkin undercards, who led promoter Tom Loeffler and HBO
1:43 PM ET As boxing fans we suffer through many mismatches, fights where the winner is essentially pre-ordained and it’s merely a matter of seeing how the expected result is achieved. Sure there are also plenty of matches that engender division among fans where the outcome can be argued but there is still typically a
10:18 AM ET Undisputed cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk, who has emerged as one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best, has signed a promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing, which will co-promote him with longtime promoter K2 Promotions, Matchroom announced on Friday. It’s a significant signing for Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, who will add Usyk to the
3:49 PM ET Featherweight world titleholder Oscar Valdez, out of action since suffering a badly broken jaw in a March 10 title defense against Scott Quigg, was cleared to resume full training Thursday, manager Frank Espinoza told ESPN. Valdez saw his doctor, oral surgeon Dr. Douglas Galen, this week in Beverly Hills, California, for an
3:28 PM ET Don’t lose your head. Stick with the jab. Use your defense. It sounds like advice any good boxing trainer would serve up before their charge slides between the ropes. For junior middleweight Tim Tsyzu, 23, though, it’s far more than that. For not only is it the advice of a former undisputed
9:36 AM ET As angry as unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez have been at each other during the lead-up to their rematch, the feud between Alvarez and Abel Sanchez, GGG’s trainer, has been just as intense. All you need to know about the middleweight rematch between unified titleholder Gennady Golovkin and
4:43 PM ET Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia, both former welterweight world titleholders and among the best 147-pounders in the world, are about as evenly matched as one could hope for in a big-time boxing match. They will fight for a vacant world title on Saturday (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn,