Boxing

5:27 PM ET WBC junior lightweight champion Miguel Berchelt, WBO junior featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete and WBO junior lightweight champion Elwin Soto are among the fighters Zanfer Promotions is planning to feature as part of a resumption of boxing in Mexico in June, organization president Fernando Beltran told ESPN. Beltran told ESPN that fans will

5:50 PM ET Steve KimESPN After some back-and-forth jabs in the past, the war of words between UFC superstar Conor McGregor and boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya is really heating up. The latest escalation happened when De La Hoya gave a sharp response when asked about how he’d fare with McGregor in a fight.

9:49 AM ET Heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua and the IBF’s mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev could face each other in front of a crowd at a Roman Amphitheatre in Croatia, the Bulgarian’s manager has said. The pair were due to meet at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on June 20 but the fight was

9:51 PM ET Steve KimESPN Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said Wednesday that his company will begin putting on fight cards next month after being idle since February due to the coronavirus pandemic. “We are coming back in June,” Arum told ESPN. “These will be shows that will be on ESPN and ESPN+. They will

5:04 PM ET IBF middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin said Wednesday that he doesn’t expect his first bout coming off the coronavirus pandemic to be against boxing superstar Canelo Alvarez, since Golovkin has an agreement in place to face undefeated mandatory challenger Kamil Szeremeta when the schedule resumes. That would open the door for Alvarez, the

4:22 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN FLINT, Mich. — Cars continue to form long lines to get free water bottles at local distribution sites here — even amid the coronavirus pandemic — with the water crisis continuing to plague the city since April 2014. So two-time super middleweight champion Anthony Dirrell is trying to help his

6:00 PM ET Canelo Alvarez’s trainer Eddy Reynoso confirmed Tuesday via social media that he would work with Andy Ruiz for his next fight. “Welcome to the team Andy. We are going to do well,” Reynoso captioned an Instagram post. Reynoso also trains former featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez, former bantamweight Luis Nery, and lightweight sensation

3:51 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 The World Boxing Council (WBC) is advising promoters and national or state commissions to put boxers and their teams into 14 days of isolation

1:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN A card featuring boxing, kickboxing, MMA and bare-knuckle fighting has been scheduled for June 6 at Forbes Field in Topeka, Kansas. “We’re going to have a ring and a cage side-by-side,” said John Carden, the head of Carden Combat Sports, which is staging the event. He said that the venue

8:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Boxers are always thinking about fighting, whether it’s the previous bout or the next one. Those who step into the ring rarely get the chance to take a step back and understand all they’ve been through. However, with the sport on hold, many world-class fighters have had a chance to

7:55 PM ET Steve KimESPN A short training clip of Mike Tyson recently went viral, and according to the man who was catching the former champ’s punches, the iconic heavyweight still has some fight left in him at age 53. “I didn’t know what to expect,” trainer Rafael Cordeiro told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani on Monday.

8:29 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN May 5, 1862: The French were heavy favorites that day, as it was long before they went on their losing streak in international competition. Sportsbooks don’t keep odds that far back, but the troop ratio was probably about two-to-one. Still, Mexico won the Battle of Puebla in just a matter

2:17 PM ET Less than a month after advising that all combat sports should be postponed due to COVID-19, the Association of Ringside Physicians (ARP) is relaxing its stance. On Saturday, the ARP released a statement that is more agreeable with combat sports resuming — as long as added precautions are taken. The ARP is

7:05 PM ET Steve KimESPN WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury said he no longer plans to retire after two more fights and instead hopes to keep boxing until age 40. “I’m going to fight on till I’m 40 years old,” he told ESPN on Thursday. “I’ve been thinking about it, and there isn’t much else

8:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Tyson Fury’s team might be hard at work trying to make a late 2020 fight against Anthony Joshua a reality, but Fury, the lineal heavyweight champion and WBC titleholder, has had his focus centered on home. He’s been making the most of his time the past six-plus weeks as the

12:26 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN A FEW WEEKS ago Paul Armendariz, an air conditioning mechanic from California’s Central Valley, was talking to his aunt Yolanda, who had just received her $1,200 federal stimulus check. Aunt Yolanda, now 74, was the 11th of 12 children from Fresno by way of Mexico, part of an immigrant generation

Apr 30, 2020 While a third bout between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former titleholder Deontay Wilder is contractually agreed upon, there is a chance that Fury could instead face Anthony Joshua — who has possession of the other three major belts — in what would be an all-British battle for supremacy of the

5:25 PM ET Steve KimESPN Negotiations are underway for a potential blockbuster heavyweight title unification fight between champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, sources told ESPN’s Mark Kriegel. Fury’s adviser, MTK, which is based in Dubai, is negotiating for Fury on behalf of his co-promoters, Top