Boxing

6:49 PM ET Steve KimESPN Former light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev was arrested early Monday morning in Los Angeles for driving under the influence of alcohol. According to an arrest report obtained by ESPN, Kovalev was pulled over around 2 a.m. local time by the California Highway Patrol and placed under arrest after officers conducted

7:00 PM ET Former heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder told ESPN on Monday that he will “definitely” exercise his right to an immediate third fight with Tyson Fury. Fury, the lineal champion, who also took Wilder’s WBC belt, knocked him down twice and stopped him when Wilder’s co-trainer, Mark Breland, threw in the towel as

2:52 PM ET After a dominant stoppage of Deontay Wilder on Saturday night, there’s still a highly anticipated heavyweight title fight left for Tyson Fury. That opponent would be Anthony Joshua. And Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing, said that is the bout his team would like to make next. “We want the Tyson

8:00 AM ET SENATOR MANNY PACQUIAO is sitting in the second row of a black government Escalade, his left foot on the center console, a 9 mm handgun in the seatback in front of him. A security van hugging the back bumper is filled with Pacquiao’s assistants and several members of the National Police, their

1:00 PM ET LAS VEGAS — It is a ritual that plays out before virtually every fight of consequence: Each boxer is asked about his plan for the bout and declines to offer any specifics for fear of giving too much information to his opponent. But Tyson Fury is not your normal prizefighter. “The Gypsy

Feb 24, 2020 An International Boxing Federation (IBF) title fight scheduled to take place in Italy on Friday has been postponed amid the coronavirus outbreak. With two confirmed deaths in Italy resulting from the virus — which has killed more than 2,500 people in China, the country of the disease’s origin — Italian authorities have

5:23 AM ET Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has said his fighter would be the “underdog” in a potential clash with Tyson Fury. Joshua regained the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles in December, when he avenged the sole loss of his professional career by defeating Andy Ruiz Jr. in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Fury

3:12 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Man’s most primitive endeavor came wrapped in the lavish and the absurd on Saturday night in Vegas. It was the biggest heavyweight fight in decades — a night the boxing folks hope is a prelude and not a throwback — and Tyson Fury owned every last inch of it.

3:35 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Tyson Fury left no doubt about who the heavyweight king of boxing is, as he thoroughly dismantled Deontay Wilder on Saturday in a highly anticipated rematch of their 2018 split draw. Fury decisively won the bout via TKO in the seventh round after Wilder’s corner threw in the towel.

12:51 AM ET Anna Katherine Clemmons Close Anna Katherine Clemmons is a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine. It’s been 20 years since boxing has had an undisputed heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis. Now that Tyson Fury has beaten Deontay Wilder to claim the WBC and lineal heavyweight championships, fans, promoters and fellow fighters are clamoring

8:19 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Saturday’s heavyweight championship fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury at MGM Grand Garden Arena broke the record for a heavyweight boxing gate in Nevada, Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN. According to duBoef, there were still “a couple more tickets” to be sold hours before Wilder and

7:43 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Hoping to avoid a repeat of the pushing and shoving that took place between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury at their final prefight news conference on Wednesday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission mandated that the big men would not be permitted to face off

8:58 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Both heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury called for an immediate rematch after their controversial draw in December 2018. After all, the fight was entertaining, had drama, no clear-cut winner and was a commercial success. Even though the slicker Fury outboxed Wilder for long stretches,

8:54 AM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder puts his WBC belt on the line against lineal champion Tyson Fury in a rematch of their controversial split draw in 2018, when Fury outboxed Wilder for long periods of the fight but suffered two knockdowns, including one in the 12th and final round. In 2019, Wilder

7:55 AM ET There are a handful of unforgettable moments that are seared forever into the minds of boxing fans. There is a discombobulated Mike Tyson on all fours grasping for his mouthpiece and trying to shove it back in before he is counted out in his monumental upset loss to Buster Douglas. There is

8:49 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Junior welterweight contender Subriel Matias won’t forget what happened seven months ago, but he also doesn’t plan to let it dictate the rest of his career. Last July 19, Matias, a big puncher from Puerto Rico, stopped then-unbeaten rising contender Maxim Dadashev in the 11th round in a 140-pound

4:35 PM ET LAS VEGAS — The Nevada State Athletic Commission has barred heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury from participating in the traditional faceoff at the weigh-in on Friday ahead of their championship rematch. Wilder and Fury are scheduled to weigh in Friday at 6 p.m. ET. “The reason the

8:08 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A 19-year-old former high school basketball player tries to walk on at the local community college when he learns his daughter will be born with spina bifida. She’ll need multiple surgeries, just for starters. He drops out of school and gets a job at Red Lobster. Then