6:43 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 Anthony Joshua says British rival Tyson Fury must lose two stones in weight before they fight. The WBA-IBF-WBO world heavyweight champion is open to
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1:01 AM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia said before defending his belt against former titlist Liam “Beefy” Smith on Saturday night that he hoped to outdo Canelo Alvarez’s performance against him. While Munguia didn’t do what Alvarez did, which was to knock Smith out in the ninth round of a 2016 junior middleweight
7:10 PM ET There is no dispute: Oleksandr Usyk is the best cruiserweight on the planet. Usyk made history as he gave Murat Gassiev a thorough boxing lesson in a near-shutout decision win to become the undisputed cruiserweight world champion in the World Boxing Super Series final on Saturday before a capacity crowd of 24,000
Jul 21, 2018 Lonnie Ali, the widow of Muhammad Ali, was on hand to present the first Ali Trophy to the winner of Saturday’s World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight final between Oleksandr Usyk and Murat Gassiev. Usyk dominated Gassiev in a near-shutout decision win to become the undisputed cruiserweight champion. The bout was the finale
12:20 AM ET The seeds were handed out and the brackets determined for the eight-man World Boxing Super Series junior welterweight and bantamweight tournaments at the draft gala Friday at the Rossiya Theatre in Moscow. With all 16 competitors on hand for the event — which took place on the eve of the cruiserweight final
9:42 PM ET Junior lightweight Lamont Roach Jr. (17-0-1, 7 KOs) rebounded from a controversial draw in his previous fight to score a TKO victory over Deivi Julio Bassa (20-5, 12 KOs) at the start of the seventh round in a scheduled 10-rounder on Friday. The bout was the main event of a Golden Boy
1:24 PM ET As Jaime Munguia gets set to make the first defense of his junior middleweight world title, he holds no ill will toward the Nevada State Athletic Commission. In fact, now he rather appreciates the decision executive director Bob Bennett made earlier this year. When the rematch between unified middleweight world champion Gennady
10:19 AM ET When the organizers of the World Boxing Super Series launched their tournaments in late 2017, the hope was they would produce exciting fights and, in the process, an undisputed world champion. Still, they had to sign fighters with the hardware to make it a reality. It won’t happen when the first season’s
9:21 PM ET Lightweight Teofimo Lopez Jr., perhaps boxing’s No. 1 prospect, will undergo right hand surgery on Friday morning in Los Angeles. In what was supposed to be his toughest test as a professional, Lopez, 20, injured his hand in the first round of a one-sided sixth-round knockout of William Silva, whom he knocked
7:27 AM ET Three-division world titleholder Terence “Bud” Crawford, one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best boxers in the world, won the award for best fighter at the 2018 ESPYS on Wednesday night, ESPN’s annual sports awards ceremony in Los Angeles. Crawford won from a field that also included Top Rank stablemate and fellow three-division titleholder Vasilily