Boxing

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,

6:36 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 After a difficult few years, Kell Brook is feeling revived and is targeting a rematch with WBC-IBF world welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. if

5:44 PM ET Lightweight world titlist Gervonta Davis was charged with simple battery domestic violence in Coral Gables, Florida, on Tuesday following an incident with the mother of his daughter at a charity basketball game on Sunday in Miami. The Coral Gables Police Department said that Davis was charged after he turned himself in to

2:55 PM ET Top Rank is taking over the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York for back-to-back boxing cards three days apart next month. The company announced the featured fights on both shows on Tuesday, and as expected, Shakur Stevenson and Michael Conlan will take center stage. Stevenson will make his first

2:57 PM ET Colby Covington says he did not break his jaw in a welterweight title fight at UFC 245 against Kamaru Usman. And he wants an immediate rematch after feeling robbed in the Dec. 14 bout. Covington said Monday on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show that it’s “world championship or bust” for him next. He

1:56 PM ET Joet Gonzalez, Lamont Roach and Marlen Esparza, all coming off decision losses in world title bouts, will return on the same card, Golden Boy Promotions announced Monday. They will box on Golden Boy’s “Thursday Night Fights” series (DAZN/RingTV.com, 10 p.m. ET) on March 19 at the Avalon in Hollywood, California. Gonzalez (23-1,

Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder has become one of the most gregarious and charismatic figures in boxing — and one of the most vocal. In a recent interview with ESPN in Los Angeles, Wilder candidly discussed myriad topics, from his rematch with lineal champion Tyson Fury to his thoughts about other elite heavyweights — as

5:40 PM ET For the second time in less than a month, Top Rank will take over the promotion of a world title fight after the winner of a purse bid defaulted. Promoter Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing defaulted on his winning bid of $1.32 million to stage the fight between unified junior welterweight world

5:28 PM ET Two-belt bantamweight world titleholder Naoya Inoue announced at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday that his unification bout with John Riel Casimero is set for April 25 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The fight will be broadcast on ESPN platforms as part of the deal between the network and Top

7:53 AM ET Heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries’ face looked like it had been run over by a herd of buffalo. He had a broken nose, cuts on both cheeks, gashes over both eyes and a torn ear. Today the fight would probably be stopped due to the champ’s horrific injuries, but it was 1902 and

9:02 AM ET Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim The ESPN panel of boxing experts has voted for the top 10 fighters in the world pound-for-pound, and it’s a deep and talented