Boxing

5:39 PM ET Steve KimESPN Jamal James and Thomas Dulorme will meet for the WBA welterweight interim title in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on Saturday, Aug. 8 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. The fight was originally scheduled for April 11 at the Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but it
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8:47 PM ET Steve KimESPN Stephen Fulton has been ruled out of Saturday’s bout against Angelo Leo after testing positive for the coronavirus. Tramaine Williams (19-0, 6 KOs), who was scheduled to face Ra’eese Aleem (16-0, 10 KOs) in the Showtime co-main event, will now face Leo (19-0, 9 KOs). The bout remains for the
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4:14 PM ET Steve KimESPN Top Rank CEO Bob Arum would like to make a fight between WBO welterweight titleholder Terence Crawford and WBA titlist Manny Pacquiao in the fall. But Arum said it’s far from a done deal — despite some reports saying it’s close. “Right now, all we’ve done is we’ve contacted Crawford
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9:25 PM ET Steve KimESPN Unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. and former junior welterweight and welterweight titlist Danny Garcia have agreed to meet in a fall pay-per-view event, a source confirmed to ESPN. The fight — which needs a negotiation of final contract numbers — is expected to take place in November at the
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12:10 PM ET Steve KimESPN Golden Boy Promotions rolled out the full card for its Aug. 28 show at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, headlined by three-division champion Jorge Linares facing Javier Fortuna in a 12-round lightweight bout. In the semi-main event, Rashidi Ellis (22-0, 14 KOs) will face Brad Solomon (28-3,
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2:26 PM ET Steve KimESPN Boxing trainer and manager Willie Savannah has died, his wife, Clara, confirmed Sunday morning. She wrote on her Facebook page: “It is with great sadness that I inform you all that my husband, Willie Savannah has passed away peacefully at home. At this time, we ask for no phone calls,
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6:17 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 Joe Joyce ended a year out of the ring with a third-round TKO win over Michael Wallisch in the second professional boxing show in
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8:18 PM ET Steve KimESPN The anticipated bantamweight unification fight between Naoya “Monster” Inoue and John Riel Casimero might not happen if Casimero doesn’t take a reduction of his original purse, according to Top Rank CEO Bob Arum. Inoue and Casimero were scheduled to meet April 25, but the fight was canceled because of the
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1:05 AM ET Steve KimESPN Vergil Ortiz Jr. put together a dominating performance and stopped Samuel Vargas in the seventh round in the main event of a DAZN card Friday night at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. With the victory, Ortiz (16-0, 16 KO), 22, took another step toward becoming a welterweight
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12:33 PM ET Steve KimESPN Noted trainer Naazim Richardson has died after a long illness. “The boxing community mourns the death of the great Nazim Richardson. RIP Brother Nazim, a class man, a great trainer, a tremendous father’,” the Boxing Writers Association of America tweeted out on Friday morning. Richardson was a respected figure in
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1:22 PM ET Steve KimESPN Canelo Alvarez’s plans to fight on Sept. 12 could be scuttled if he and DAZN do not come to terms on their next fight, according to his lawyer. Promoter Eddie Hearn has said WBA super middleweight champion Callum Smith is the leading contender to face Alvarez in the fall. However,
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