Boxing

7:12 PM ET YouTube sensation-turned-boxer Jake Paul is back in the ring to face former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley in the main event of a card at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on Sunday (Showtime PPV, 8 p.m. ET.) Paul (3-0, 3 KOs), 24, of Cleveland, has taken boxing by storm with impressive
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Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz 11:41 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Emanuel Navarrete, one of boxing’s most reliable action fighters, and Joet Gonzalez have agreed to terms for an Oct. 16 featherweight title fight, multiple sources told ESPN. Navarrete’s 126-pound title defense will headline Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+. A venue has not yet been
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1:06 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Gervonta Davis has vacated his 130-pound title, WBA president Gilberto Mendoza told ESPN on Saturday. The star boxer will be granted permission to retain his 135- and 140-pound titles ahead of his next fight, which is expected before the end of the year. He will have 48 hours after that
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10:46 AM ET CLEVELAND — The highly anticipated boxing match between Jake Paul and Tyron Woodley is now official. Paul, the YouTuber-turned-prizefighter, weighed in at 190 pounds Saturday morning at the Intercontinental Hotel for the catchweight bout, which is scheduled for Sunday night. Former UFC welterweight champion Woodley weighed in at 189.5 pounds — the
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2:23 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jaron “Boots” Ennis, one of boxing’s fastest-rising stars, is set for his second fight of 2021. Ennis and Thomas Dulorme have verbally agreed to fight each other in a 12-round Showtime main event, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday. The two dates being considered for the welterweight bout are Oct.
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1:37 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez are on the brink of yet another fight. Promoter Eddie Hearn told ESPN on Friday that he’s confident he’ll close a deal for the unified 115-pound championship trilogy fight next week, a bout he’s planning to stage Oct. 16. Hearn is looking at
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7:30 AM ET Dotun AkintoyeESPN.com JAKE PAUL HAS taken to scrawling poster board messages in the living room of his home in Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico. Consider the writing on the wall: “Make History.” “Inner Athlete.” “Win.” “Win!!” “Give Back.” “What Would Jordan Do?” “Secretary Bird” “Orca Energy” “Box Jellyfish — no heart, deadliest animal.”
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11:24 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Edgar Berlanga has agreed to terms on a two-fight plan with Top Rank, the boxer told ESPN on Thursday. The first bout comes Oct. 9 in Las Vegas against Marcelo Esteban Coceres, Berlanga said, in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing show on an ESPN platform that will
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2:20 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Errol Spence Jr. suffered a retinal detachment/break in his left eye during sparring weeks before his scheduled fight with Manny Pacquiao, the 31-year-old unified welterweight champion told ESPN. During a session at the World Class Boxing Gym in downtown Dallas, Spence said, he felt something amiss, stopped the session and
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4:54 PM ET WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo was arrested Wednesday on felony robbery charges following an alleged dispute with a waitress over a bar tab. According to Texas court records, Charlo was booked on Wednesday on three counts of second-degree robbery stemming from an incident in July. Charlo posted bond for all three charges
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7:44 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN David Benavidez’s fight with Jose Uzcategui has been rescheduled. The 168-pound bout is set for Nov. 13 at Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, a PBC on Showtime main event. The fight was originally slated for Aug. 28 before Benavidez tested positive for COVID-19. Benavidez, ESPN’s No. 3 super middleweight, will
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Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz 3:48 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The Teofimo Lopez-George Kambosos soap opera appears to be reaching its conclusion. Triller’s Ryan Kavanaugh told ESPN he sent contracts on Monday to both Lopez and Kambosos for the undisputed lightweight title fight to take place Oct. 5 at New York’s Hulu Theater at
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