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
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
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
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
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
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
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