Boxing

3:15 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN At long last, Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford are on the verge of a summit meeting at 147 pounds. Spence, who holds three welterweight titles, and Crawford, owner of one 147-pound belt, are closing in on a deal for an October fight in Las Vegas for the undisputed welterweight
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10:07 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — All the lightweight belts officially will be on the line when George Kambosos Jr. and Devin Haney meet at Marvel Stadium on Sunday (9 p.m. ET Saturday, ESPN/ESPN+). But not before there was some late drama here Saturday morning. Kambosos initially came in .36 pounds over the 135-pound lightweight
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11:35 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Teofimo Lopez is on the comeback trail. The former lightweight champion and Mexico’s Pedro Campa have agreed to a deal for a 140-pound bout on Aug. 13, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The Top Rank Boxing on ESPN main event will mark Lopez’s junior welterweight debut and will likely take
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7:49 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Muhammad Ali. Floyd Mayweather. Manny Pacquiao. Likenesses of those fistic titans peered at Devin Haney from the walls of the Top Rank Gym, where the budding star prepared for the fight of his life just days before he set off for Melbourne, Australia. That’s where Haney will
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10:14 PM ET Tim Tszyu is a step closer to a unified mega-fight with Jermell Charlo after the WBO ordered the American to defend his belt against the undefeated Australian. Tszyu has been the WBO’s No.1 mandatory challenger at super-welterweight for more than a year, prompting the sanctioning body to intervene following Charlo’s victory over
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3:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Anthony Joshua will be trained by Robert Garcia for his heavyweight title rematch with Oleksandr Usyk on July 23 in Saudi Arabia, sources told ESPN. Garcia, the boxing writers’ 2012 Trainer of the Year and a former 130-pound champion, coaches out of his Robert Garcia Boxing Academy in Riverside, California,
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12:58 AM ET Brianna Williams Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Rolando “Rolly” Romero entered the ring at Barclays Center in New York on Saturday with undefeated records and dozens of knockouts between the two of them. Davis, ESPN’s third-ranked men’s lightweight, looked to defend his WBA “regular” title, while Romero ​​fought for a world title for
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1:10 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN NEW YORK — Gervonta Davis wasn’t letting his hands go, and Rolando Romero took advantage. He stalked “Tank” Davis and even forced him to hold on at times after he connected with a couple of power shots. But, as he always does, Davis found a way with his devastating left
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1:59 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Gervonta “Tank” Davis has blossomed into a star with the guidance of Floyd Mayweather, but after seven years, the relationship could be reaching its end. The 27-year-old meets Rolando “Rolly” Romero in a lightweight bout on Saturday at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center (9 p.m. ET, Showtime PPV), and Davis has stated
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