10:34 PM ET The return of former light heavyweight world champion Jean Pascal, who is exiting a brief retirement, has been postponed, promoter Yvon Michel said. Pascal was scheduled to fight former UFC fighter and former North American Hockey League enforcer Steve Bosse in a 10-round cruiserweight boxing match in the main event of a
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6:19 PM ET Welterweight contender Egidijus Kavaliauskas, known as the “Mean Machine,” and Juan Carlos Abreu will meet in the co-feature of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on July 7, Top Rank announced on Wednesday. Kavaliauskas and Abreu will meet in a scheduled 10-round bout for Kavaliauskas’ regional belt on the undercard of
9:37 AM ET World Boxing Super Series officials on Tuesday confirmed perhaps the worst kept secret in boxing — that it will stage an eight-man single elimination tournament in the junior welterweight division during its second season beginning in the fall. “We are very delighted to announce [junior welterweight] as our second weight class of
6:26 PM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder is ready to sign a contract to face unified titlist Anthony Joshua for the undisputed championship this fall provided there are what co-manager Shelly Finkel described as “small changes” to the agreement Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing sent him. “I’m sending him back the contracts
1:12 PM ET Featherweight prospect Joet Gonzalez will take a step up in his opposition level in his next fight. Gonzalez will fight Rafael “Big Bang” Rivera in the scheduled 10-round main event of the Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN card on July 13 (ESPN and ESPN Deports, 7 p.m. ET) at The Novo at
3:06 PM ET Junior bantamweight world champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai was launched to stardom with significant victories in his last three fights in the United States. However, the toast of Thailand has declined an opportunity for a fourth major fight in a row stateside and will instead participate in a nontitle bout in his homeland,
1:24 AM ET Junior lightweight world titleholder Miguel Berchelt, bigger, faster and stronger, imposed himself on Jonathan Victor Barros in a one-sided, third-round knockout victory on Saturday night at the Poliforum Zamna in Berchelt’s adopted hometown of Merida, Mexico. Berchelt applied relentless pressure to Barros, a former featherweight world titleholder, knocking him down three times
11:06 PM ET Undefeated junior welterweight power puncher Vergil Ortiz Jr. had no trouble disposing of two-time former junior lightweight titleholder Juan Carlos Salgado, using a vicious left hook to the body at 1:52 of the third round to knock him out in a scheduled 10-round bout Saturday night. The fight highlighted a Golden Boy
11:31 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 Martin Murray took out his recent frustrations on Roberto Garcia in a dominant points win, moving him closer to a world title shot. Murray
1:50 AM ET Claressa Shields, the only American boxer to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals, had faced virtually no adversity through her brilliant amateur career or in her first five professional fights — until Friday night. That’s when Shields, the unified women’s super middleweight world titleholder, dropped down in weight to challenge unified junior middleweight