4:02 PM ET Junior lightweight Ryan Garcia, the 2017 ESPN.com prospect of the year, will return to action to face Carlos Morales on Sept. 1, Golden Boy Promotions announced on Tuesday. Garcia and Morales will meet in a scheduled 10-round lightweight fight at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, in the main event
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6:53 PM ET Lightweight contender Luke Campbell will have a chance for revenge against Yvan Mendy in a fight for high stakes. Campbell, who suffered his first professional knockdown and loss to Mendy in a split decision in December 2015 in a major upset, will face him again. This time the fight will be a
1:16 PM ET Opening Bell: What might have been The scene was ideal. A sold-out crowd of 5,642 had packed the Mark G. Etess Arena at the newly opened, beautiful and bustling Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Saturday night for the return of big-time boxing to Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the first time
2:07 AM ET ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A “Storm” came ashore and laid waste to Sergey Kovalev on Saturday night. Trailing on all three scorecards, Eleider “Storm” Alvarez, not known for his punching power, went wild on Kovalev in the seventh round, knocking him down three times and stopping him to take his light heavyweight
11:38 PM ET ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Dmitry Bivol’s mission was twofold: retain his light heavyweight world title for the third time and continue to create more demand for a unification fight with main event star Sergey Kovalev. Bivol did the first part with ease as he rolled past Isaac Chilemba on Saturday night in
11:36 AM ET Andre Ward has signed a new multiyear deal to remain with ESPN as one of its boxing analysts, the network announced on Friday. Under the agreement, Ward, who unified super middleweight and lightweight world titles and became one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best fighters in the world during his 2004 to 2017 ring
6:12 PM ET Associated Press SYDNEY — Billy Dib of Australia quit boxing after a unanimous points loss to American Tevin Farmer in an IBF super featherweight title fight Friday. Farmer sent Dib to the canvas with a left hook in the ninth round, but the bout went the distance, with the judges calling it
11:48 AM ET As of late 2016, Sergey Kovalev was undefeated, owned three light heavyweight world title belts and was one of most feared fighters on the planet, rising up the pound-for-pound rankings thanks to a series of big knockouts and significant victories against Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal. And then Andre Ward came into
2:10 PM ET Sergey Kovalev was smiling as he finished a workout with trainer Abror Tursunpulatov ahead of Kovalev’s WBO light heavyweight championship fight against Eleider Alvarez on Saturday in Atlantic City. It will be Kovalev’s third fight under the guidance of Tursunpulatov, after Kovalev parted ways with his previous trainer, John David Jackson, after
10:08 AM ET Philadelphia’s Tevin Farmer won a vacant junior lightweight title with a unanimous 12-round decision over Billy Dib on Friday at Technology Park in Redfern, Australia. The wide scores of 118-109, 119-108 and 120-107 were indicative of the one-sided nature of fight that saw Farmer in control from start to finish. Farmer, a