Boxing

8:27 PM ET Middleweight world titleholder Billy Joe Saunders and mandatory challenger Demetrius Andrade will meet this fall after their promoters, Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing, came to an agreement on Wednesday. Hearn told ESPN that the fight “looks like” it will take place Oct. 20 and that he plans to switch
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8:00 PM ET Lightweight world titleholder Mikey Garcia, one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best, is thinking big — as in the 147-pound weight class. Although Garcia is just days away from a very significant 135-pound world title unification fight against fellow undefeated titlist Robert Easter Jr. on Saturday (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET) at the Staples Center
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6:59 PM ET Former welterweight world titleholders Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter officially have a date and a venue for their fight. Garcia and Porter will meet for a vacant welterweight world title on Sept. 8 (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, promoters Lou DiBella and TGB Promotions’ Tom Brown
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11:09 AM ET Unified middleweight world titleholder Gennady Golovkin will defend his belts against former champion Canelo Alvarez on Saturday, Sept. 15, in a rematch of last September’s controversial split draw. Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) has 20 straight defenses in the division and is tied with Bernard Hopkins for the record. Hopkins made 20 middleweight
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10:32 PM ET Former welterweight world titleholder Kell Brook suffered an undisclosed injury and is off the Matchroom Boxing card headlined by the heavyweight fight between Dillian Whyte and former world titlist Joseph Parker on Saturday at the O2 Arena in London. In his second fight since he lost his world title by punishing 11th-round
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4:37 PM ET A new proposal aimed to address extreme weight cutting practices in combat sports will be introduced at the Association of Boxing Commissions annual convention this weekend in Orlando. The potential policy changes, which would require a majority vote by ABC members to go into effect, call for a second-day weigh-in ahead of
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6:28 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 Dillian Whyte says he needs to control his anger and not turn into the Incredible Hulk when he boxes Joseph Parker on Saturday. The
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9:42 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 Oleksandr Usyk emerged a serious danger to world heavyweight titleholders Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder on Saturday. The Ukrainian unanimously outpointed Murat Gassiev to
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