Boxing

10:40 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LONDON — Tyson Fury was a career-high 277 pounds when he scored a knockout of Deontay Wilder in October. “The Gypsy King” was decidedly slimmer at Friday’s weigh-in ahead of Saturday’s heavyweight title defense vs. Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium (2 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV). Fury tipped the scales at
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7:50 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Tyson Fury defends the WBC and lineal heavyweight championship against mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte on Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London (ESPN+ PPV, 2 p.m. ET) in front of an expected 94,000 fans. Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs), 33, of Manchester, England, is coming off two impressive stoppages of Deontay
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12:28 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LONDON — When they finally faced off for the first time after years of trading fighting words, Tyson Fury tickled Dillian Whyte with both hands as the pair of big men erupted in laughter. Until last week’s media conference call, Whyte refused to promote Saturday’s heavyweight title fight before 94,000-plus
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6:10 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Mike Tyson was involved in a physical altercation on an airplane Wednesday night, with an edited video obtained by TMZ Sports showing the Hall of Famer striking a passenger seated behind him. A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department told ESPN on Thursday that at approximately 10:06 p.m. local
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7:52 PM ET Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has been accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against him and his tequila brand Casa Mexico, according to court documents obtained by ESPN. A female former employee of Casa Mexico alleges in the filing that De La Hoya sexually harassed and sexually assaulted
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2:14 AM ET Michael Zerafa says he can’t wait to put Issac Hardman “to sleep” after punches were thrown with their world title eliminator weigh-in descending into chaos. For the second time the pair had to be separated, after they also came to blows at a pre-fight media conference last month. “Pretty Boy” Zerafa and
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7:00 AM 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 In front of approximately 200 people, Dillian Whyte had his arm raised in victory. Inside the Chadwell St Mary Working Men’s Club, just 40
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2:56 AM ET Amir Khan said on Monday he had been robbed at gunpoint in London but that both he and his wife were unharmed in the incident. “Just had my watch taken off me at gunpoint in East London, Leyton,” Khan wrote on Twitter. “I crossed the road with Faryal [Makhdoom], luckily she was
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11:00 AM ET Jake Paul, the YouTuber-turned-prizefighter, has already made a major splash in boxing inside the ring. But he continues to make waves out of it as well. Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) added a new member to its fighter roster Monday, signing top boxing prospect Ashton Sylve to a deal, Paul and his
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6:11 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 Conor Benn edged closer to the welterweight boxing elite with another display of his ruthless finishing in a two-round destruction of Chris van Heerden
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1:37 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Yordenis Ugas will be sidelined for quite some time. Ugas, 35, suffered a fractured right orbital in the 10th-round TKO loss to Errol Spence Jr. during Saturday’s welterweight title unification. “I have a fracture in my eye and in the next few days the doctors will say how they will
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