Boxing

8:11 AM ET Ryan Garcia, the 2017 prospect of the year, appears to be on the verge of big things in boxing. Since being recognized as boxing’s top prospect, Garcia has moved up in weight from junior lightweight to lightweight and won six more fights in a row — four by knockout — while increasing

6:08 PM ET Former unified cruiserweight world titlist Murat Gassiev, who has been out of the ring because of a shoulder injury for the past 19 months, is finally set to make his return. Gassiev, who is moving up to the heavyweight division, will take on Jerry Forrest in a 10-round bout on Feb. 29

3:53 PM ET Artis Mack, the older brother of undisputed women’s middleweight and unified junior middleweight world champion Claressa Shields, reached a plea deal on Monday in the shocking weigh-in attack on James Ali Bashir, the trainer of a Shields opponent. Mack, 28, pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor aggravated assault in the 67th

11:53 AM ET Will Gary Russell Jr. ever get a major fight? He did face Vasiliy Lomachenko in 2014 for a vacant featherweight world title, but that wasn’t a big fight then. In fact, it was on a Showtime undercard, where Russell took his only professional loss by clear decision. In 2015, Russell won a

6:11 AM ET Heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua swapped the boxing ring for a nightclub stage on Feb. 8 as he performed a rap in front of hundreds of fans in London. Joshua, who won his rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr. in Saudi Arabia in December to reclaim the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO titles, joined

7:22 PM ET Steve KimESPN Junior middleweight hopeful Charles Conwell scored a fifth round stoppage of Ramses Agaton at the Civic Center in Hammond, Indiana on Saturday night. For Conwell, this was his first bout since the tragic aftermath of his last fight on October 12, where Patrick Day fell into a coma after getting

1:08 AM ET Featherweight world titlist Gary Russell Jr. came off yet another long layoff and yet again dominated. Russell retained his 126-pound belt for the fifth time — each in dominating fashion — as he won a spirited, unanimous decision over mandatory challenger “King Tug” Tugstsogt Nyambayar in the main event of a Showtime

6:30 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 Kell Brook returned to form and kept his career alive with a seventh-round knockout win over Mark DeLuca on Saturday. The former IBF world

5:06 PM ET Former bantamweight world titlist Luis Nery and heavyweight contender Otto Wallin will return to the ring on the same card on March 28 at the Park Theater at the Park MGM in Las Vegas. The bouts will be part of a “Showtime Boxing: Special Edition” tripleheader (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET), the network

9:03 AM ET Steve KimESPN No matter how you may feel about it, fights between professional boxers and mixed martial arts combatants could be here to stay. What was once thought to be a one-off bout between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor in 2017 made hundreds of millions of dollars. Unsurprisingly, with that kind of

9:23 AM ET As red-hot heavyweight prospect Daniel Dubois was pulverizing Kyotaro Fujimoto into a second-round knockout on Dec. 21 in London, British countryman and fellow unbeaten big man Joe Joyce was ringside hoping a showdown with Dubois would be next. And so it is as promoter Frank Warren, Dubois and Joyce appeared at a

7:20 AM ET World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua wants his next fight to be in London in June and Tottenham Hotspur’s 62,000-seater stadium is the most likely venue, promoter Eddie Hearn said. Joshua (23-1, 21 KOs), 30, defeated Mexican-American Andy Ruiz Jr in a December rematch in Saudi Arabia to win back his IBF, WBA,

3:33 PM ET Before the four-bout Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury rematch pay-per-view on Feb. 22 (ESPN-Fox PPV, 9 p.m. ET) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, a pair of preliminary bouts will take center stage on a pre-PPV telecast. Unbeaten junior welterweight Subriel Matias will square off with Petros Ananyan, and welterweight Amir

Feb 6, 2020 Former unified junior featherweight world titleholder Daniel Roman is seeking an immediate rematch with Murodjon Akhmadaliev after his tight loss last week. Roman faced mandatory challenger Akhmadaliev on Jan. 30 on the Demetrius Andrade-Luke Keeler card at the Meridian at Island Gardens in Miami and lost an action-packed split decision and his

Feb 6, 2020 It is a very long way from sleepy Lowestoft to the boxing ring at the Tokyo Olympics when you’ve been away from the sport for seven years, stopped dreaming of glory and had three children. Charley Davison is a few fights away from being one of Britain’s most remarkable Olympians after walking

7:25 AM ET Roman ModrowskiESPN.com Tyson Fury is a 6-foot-9, 250-pound fashion plate who makes a sartorial splash whether he’s walking into a boxing ring or a news conference. He has been Batman, Apollo Creed and a lucha libre wrestler, and look for him to push the envelope again during the buildup for his Feb.

12:36 PM ET Former junior welterweight world titleholder Johnny Bumphus died Monday due to cardiac arrest in his hometown of Tacoma, Washington. He was 59. Bumphus, nicknamed “Bump City,” was a skillful southpaw who boxed professionally from 1980 to 1987 but whose career was cut short by drug addiction. Bumphus, who lived for many years

11:17 AM ET Former heavyweight world titlist Joseph Parker, long on the hunt for an opponent for his next bout, now officially has one: Shawndell Winters. Parker will square off with Winters in a 10-round bout on the Mikey Garcia-Jessie Vargas card on Feb. 29 (DAZN) at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco,