1:03 PM ET When boxing manager/adviser Al Haymon created Premier Boxing Champions in 2015, he spent hundreds of millions of investor dollars buying time across numerous television networks, including ESPN, NBC, CBS and Fox, hoping to entice one or more of them to eventually pony up rights fees for top-level fights. Although most of those
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1:50 AM ET Anthony Mundine could be slugged with more than $1 million in fines if he fails to make weight for his mooted showdown with Jeff Horn. The fight, Horn’s first since losing his world title to Terence Crawford, is all but locked in for November 30 at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane and is
6:00 PM ET “The Juggernaut” is ready for his American debut. Joe Joyce, the 2016 super heavyweight Olympic silver medalist for Great Britain, will fight in the United States for the first time on Sept. 30 in what figures to be the sternest test of his brief professional career. Joyce, who lost a controversial decision
1:14 PM ET Junior middleweight Tim Tszyu and junior bantamweight Andrew Moloney, two of Australia’s brightest up-and-comers, will have their next fights streamed live in the United States on ESPN+, the network announced Tuesday. They will each box in scheduled 10-round bouts Saturday (ESPN+, 7 a.m. ET) at Bendigo Stadium in Bendigo, Australia. Tszyu (10-0,
2:11 AM ET Lightweight Ryan “Kingry” Garcia, the 2017 ESPN.com prospect of the year, weathered some difficult moments in the late going against Carlos Morales on Saturday night but emerged with a majority decision victory in the toughest fight of his career. Headlining the “Golden Boy Fight Night” card on Facebook Watch before a sold-out
3:56 PM ET The vacant middleweight world title fight between Sergiy Derevyanchenko and Daniel Jacobs was made official Friday along with two other world title bouts on the undercard. Derevyanchenko and former secondary titlist Jacobs will meet Oct. 27 (HBO, 10 p.m. ET/PT) at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, where
4:44 PM ET The World Boxing Super Series announced Friday that its second season of eight-man single-elimination tournaments will kick off Oct. 7 at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan, where secondary bantamweight world titlist Naoya Inoue will face former titlist Juan Carlos Payano in the quarterfinals of the 118-pound tournament in a previously announced
9:41 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Earlier this month, many were shocked when Jacksonville’s Curtis Harper, a boxer with a 13-6 record, was disqualified after exiting the ring seconds after the opening bell in a fight against up-and-coming former Olympian Efe Ajagba, of Nigeria. It was a stunning moment that aired on Fox Sports 1
2:13 PM ET Although lightweight Ryan “Kingry” Garcia has never had a big fight, never faced a top opponent and only has 15 professional bouts, he has more than 1.1 million followers on Instagram and stunningly drew nearly 7,000 fans to the StubHub Center in Carson, California, for his last fight on May 4 as
10:10 AM ET DETROIT — The buildings sit, one after another, on E Vernor Highway — dilapidated houses, abandoned businesses, boarded-up structures, vacant lots populated by more weeds than cars driving down the multilane street. It’s a row of blight on the east side of Detroit, a city searching for recovery for decades. In the