11:42 PM ET The rematch between unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez looms as the biggest fight of the year, but the bitter rivals won’t meet in person at a traditional news conference to kick off the official promotion of the fight. In an unusual move, they won’t see each other face-to-face
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4:05 PM ET The date and venue for the World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight final for the undisputed championship between two-belt titleholders Oleksandr Usyk and Murat Gassiev is finally official. Super middleweight world titleholder Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez wants nothing more than to unify the division. But until then, he’ll defend his title for the fourth
Jun 29, 2018 When Alex Saucedo was a 17-year-old amateur, he spent time in Los Angeles sparring with Manny Pacquiao and harbored dreams of going to the 2012 Olympics. As the story goes, Pacquiao was so impressed with the work he received from the teenager that he told Top Rank promoter Bob Arum about Saucedo.
12:00 AM ET Fighting on the road is nothing new for “Speedy” Rashidi Ellis, a native of Lynn, Massachusetts, who fought his first four pro bouts in the Greater Boston area but has been campaigning elsewhere since. The undefeated welterweight has boxed six times in Puerto Rico, five times in the Dominican Republic, twice in
7:40 PM ET After 10 years together, two world titles and a lot of ups and downs, former two-time junior middleweight titlist Demetrius Andrade was granted a release from his contract when he bought out co-promoters Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing and Artie Pelullo of Banner Promotions on Thursday. A much-anticipated Anthony Joshua-Deontay Wilder heavyweight
5:56 PM ET Junior lightweights Andrew Cancio and Dardan Zenunaj will meet in a 10-round bout that will headline the Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN card on Aug. 17, Golden Boy Promotions announced on Thursday. The card, which will air on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes beginning at 11 p.m. ET, will take place at the
8:42 AM ET ESPN staff Amir Khan will take on Samuel Vargas on Sept. 8 at Birmingham’s Barclaycard Arena in his second fight since returning to boxing. Khan (32-4, 20 KOs) took just 39 seconds to dispense Canadian journeyman Phil Lo Greco back in April as he began his quest to return to world title
2:29 AM ET After Deontay Wilder retained his heavyweight world title by brutal 10th-round knockout of Luis Ortiz in a fight of the year contender on March 3, he again called for a unification bout with Anthony Joshua. Four weeks later, Joshua unified three of the four major belts by decision against Joseph Parker and
5:46 PM ET Eddie Hearn insists a $20m offer for Deontay Wilder to fight Anthony Joshua and a “tickover” fight is still on the table for the American despite a fight between Joshua and Alexander Povetkin nearing fruition. While the WBA ordered Joshua to defend his WBA belt against Povetkin, Hearn stated that a unification
9:07 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s father has been acquitted in Las Vegas of a misdemeanor battery charge after a trial before a judge. Floyd Mayweather Sr.’s lawyer, Nicholas Wooldridge, said testimony took several hours before Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia reached the not guilty verdict on Tuesday.