Boxing

5:42 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Junior welterweight contender Jose Zepeda has been accused of punching a 40-year-old man at a boxing gym on Tuesday, Lt. Josh Hendricks of the Baldwin Park (California) Police Department told ESPN on Wednesday. No charges have been filed, Hendricks said, who added there was no video surveillance footage and no
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7:57 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Errol Spence Jr. could defend his unified welterweight championship against Keith Thurman next after the WBC ordered the mandatory title fight on Wednesday at its convention in Mexico. Spence, 32, who holds the WBC, WBA and IBF belts at 147 pounds, was in advanced talks to fight Terence Crawford, but
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7:27 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 Sunny Edwards believes a successful defence of his IBF flyweight world title on Friday will be the launchpad to set up high-profile bouts against
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9:00 AM ET Dmitry Bivol defended his WBA light heavyweight title with an impressive unanimous-decision victory over Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez and positioned himself as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters currently in boxing. With the victory, Bivol moved from No. 8 to No. 7, while also creating a gap between him and fellow 175-pound champion
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6:11 PM ET Jeff Fenech has joined an elite group of boxers to have won world titles in four weight divisions after finally being recognised for one of sport’s great injustices. More than 30 years after being controversially denied the super-featherweight belt, Fenech has been awarded the strap retrospectively at a World Boxing Council convention
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11:04 PM ET Super middleweight contender Aidos Yerbossynuly was placed in a medically induced coma following a knockout loss Saturday night, one of his trainers confirmed to ESPN. The Kazakh fighter was stopped in the 12th round by top prospect David Morrell in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card from The Armory
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10:40 PM ET Logan Paul’s widely praised WWE performance this weekend has come with a cost. Paul, the former YouTuber who has dabbled in boxing and now pro wrestling, announced Saturday night on social media that he tore an MCL and meniscus, and potentially an ACL, in his WWE main event match with Roman Reigns
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7:36 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Dmitry Bivol retained his WBA light heavyweight title in lopsided fashion with a unanimous decision over Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The win — via scores of 118-110, 117-111 and 117-111 — comes after Bivol broke through in May with an upset victory over
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8:00 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former super middleweight titleholders David Benavidez and Caleb Plant both announced Thursday on social media that they’ve struck a deal for a long-awaited fight. The 168-pound bout will be presented by Premier Boxing Champions on pay-per-view in the first quarter of 2023, a source told ESPN. Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs)
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8:34 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The planned super middleweight bout between former champions David Benavidez and Jose Uzcategui, a PBC on Showtime main event set to take place in January, has been scrapped, multiple sources told ESPN. The reason, sources said, is public backlash surrounding Uzcategui’s positive test for the performance-enhancing drug recombinant human EPO
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4:12 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The WBA on Tuesday ordered a fight between Amanda Serrano and Erika Cruz for the undisputed featherweight title, according to the organization’s Twitter account. The sides will have 30 days to close a deal before a purse bid is ordered. Serrano (43-2-1, 30 KOs) holds the WBO, WBA and IBF
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Oct 29, 2022 Connor O’Halloran LONDON — Katie Taylor successfully made her seventh defense of her undisputed lightweight boxing title as she outpointed Karen Elizabeth Carabajal in a comfortable unanimous decision victory at Wembley Arena on Saturday. Taylor, who won by scores of 100-91, 99-91 and 98-92, was making her first appearance since claiming a
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12:42 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko scored a unanimous-decision victory over Jamaine Ortiz in a fight that was far tougher than expected for him Saturday night at New York’s Hulu Theater at MSG. The win sets Lomachenko (17-2, 11 KO) up for a potential meeting next year with undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney. Ortiz
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