10:38 PM ET After pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko knocked out Jorge Linares to win the lightweight world title last month, he vacated the junior lightweight belt he had held. Now that world title is set to be filled: Puerto Rico’s Christopher “Pitufo” Diaz and Masayuki Ito, of Japan, will fight for the vacant 130-pound belt
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10:00 PM ET When Carl Frampton defends his interim featherweight world title for the first time on Aug. 18 at Windsor Park in his hometown of Belfast, Northern Ireland, former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will continue his comeback on the undercard, MTK Global, the management company that represents both fighters, announced Monday. Fury, whose personal
3:08 AM ET Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares engaged in a scintillating, punch-filled featherweight match that had the crowd at the Staples Center in Los Angeles cheering wildly throughout the 12-round bout. In the end, it was the more accurate Santa Cruz who won a unanimous decision by scores of 115-113, 116-112 and 117-111
[ad_1] LAS VEGAS — Terence Crawford put the welterweight division on notice in a major way. Crawford, one of boxing’s best pound-for-pound performers and already a winner of world titles in two weight classes, aimed to make a big impression in his first fight in the talent-rich 147-pound division that several of the sport’s best
12:11 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Terence Crawford put the welterweight division on notice in a major way. Crawford, one of boxing’s best pound-for-pound performers and already a winner of world titles in two weight classes, aimed to make a big impression in his first fight in the talent-rich 147-pound division that several of the
12:55 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Former junior lightweight world titleholder Jose “Sniper” Pedraza signed with Top Rank in February hoping it would quickly lead to a shot at another belt. It probably will because Pedraza won a hard-fought unanimous decision over a bloody Antonio Moran on Saturday night in the co-feature on the Terence
10:50 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Lightweight champions Mikey Garcia and Robert Easter Jr. will meet in a title unification bout July 28 at Staples Center. The unbeaten champs announced their upcoming fight Saturday before Leo Santa Cruz’s rematch with Abner Mares in downtown Los Angeles. Garcia (38-0, 30 KOs) grew up in
9:07 PM 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 MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Tyson Fury eased back into his boxing career after a two-year, seven-month exile with an undemanding four-round win over Sefer Seferi
7:01 PM 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 MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — Maurice Hooker silenced Terry Flanagan’s hometown crowd with a split decision victory to lift the vacant WBO world junior welterweight title
11:12 PM ET Diego De La Hoya remained undefeated with a seventh-round TKO of Jose Salgado in a junior featherweight match scheduled for 10 rounds. The bout was the main event of a Golden Boy on ESPN card at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Salgado (35-5-2, 28 KOs) and De La