1:07 AM ET Light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera has an opponent for his Aug. 18 bout, “Irish” Seanie Monaghan, Main Events announced on Tuesday. The scheduled 10-round fight will take place at the Sands Bethlehem Casino and Event Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and will headline a Golden Boy Fight Night card on Facebook Watch. Last
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11:29 PM ET Junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez got a new fight date on Monday, and on Tuesday, he got his opponent — undefeated contender Antonio Orozco — in a surprising and very quick deal made between Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions. Ramirez and Orozco will meet on Sept. 14 at the Save
3:46 PM ET Heavyweight contender Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller formally declined a world title elimination fight with Kubrat Pulev on Tuesday, opting instead to pursue a path with another organization. On June 25, Epic Sports & Entertainment won an IBF purse bid to gain promotional rights for a fight meant to produce one of the
9:18 PM ET Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has moved quickly to reschedule junior welterweight world titleholder Jose Ramirez. He will make his first title defense against an opponent to be determined on Sept. 14 in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN card at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California, Arum
11:25 AM ET Former bantamweight world titleholder Juan Carlos Payano will take part in the 118-pound World Boxing Super Series that begins in the fall, tournament officials announced Monday. “I am very happy to join the tournament, ecstatic to be very honest,” Payano said. “Looking forward to regaining my championship. It is great to see
9:24 AM ET WBA “regular” welterweight titleholder Lucas Matthysse defends his belt against boxing’s only eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao in a fight that will air live on ESPN+ in the United States at 9 p.m. ET on Saturday from the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Matthysse won the title by stopping Tewa Kiram in
12:59 AM ET Welterweight contender Egidijus Kavaliauskas, who was thrust into the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on Saturday night at the last minute, hoped to use a big performance to bolster his chances for a world title shot later this year. Kavaliauskas, known as “The Mean Machine,” won the
7:49 PM ET Junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez’s first defense against Danny O’Connor was canceled Friday prior to the weigh-in because O’Connor was admitted to a Fresno, California, hospital suffering from severe dehydration as he attempted to cut the final two pounds. On March 17, Ramirez outpointed Amir Imam to win a vacant 140-pound
2:03 PM ET The Manny Pacquiao-Lucas Matthysse card will stream live on ESPN+, the network and Top Rank announced on Saturday after Pacquiao’s MP Promotions signed the requisite paperwork after a number of delays. Pacquiao will challenge Matthysse for his secondary welterweight world title at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 15 (July
8:57 PM ET Clayton Laurent Jr., a 2016 Olympic heavyweight from the U.S. Virgin Islands, has signed with promoter Lou DiBella. The 6-foot-5, 250-pound Laurent, who turns 28 later this month, is the stepson of former junior middleweight and middleweight world champion Julian Jackson and the stepbrother of active professionals John and Julius Jackson. “I’m