Boxing

3:20 PM ET Steve KimESPN After defeating Vasiliy Lomachenko on Saturday night to become boxing’s undisputed lightweight champion, Teofimo Lopez has options for his next bout. But despite no rematch clause, a second battle against Lomachenko isn’t out of the realm of possibility, Top Rank’s Bob Arum said Monday. “If you do a rematch, you

1:22 AM ET On Saturday night, Teofimo Lopez accomplished what he sought out to do when he began his professional boxing career in 2016: beat Vasiliy Lomachenko and take over the sport. Lopez did that by getting aggressive and building an early lead on the judges’ scorecards in the lightweight unification bout against Lomachenko at

1:40 AM ET On a night full of top-tier college football matchups and MLB championship games, it was Teofimo Lopez Jr.’s upset victory over Vasiliy Lomachenko that stole the night. The last six rounds, in particular, were some of the best championship boxing rounds we’ve seen in a long time. Lopez walked away recognized as

1:18 AM ET For a man known for emphatic post-fight celebrations, a raised hand made a louder statement than anything else Teofimo Lopez has done in the ring. No backflip, jersey or Heisman pose could match one of the simplest acts in boxing. Lopez defeated Vasiliy Lomachenko by unanimous decision to win three of the

1:10 AM ET Steve KimESPN We have a new lightweight king. At just 23 years old, Teofimo Lopez became the undisputed lightweight champion of the world by dethroning Vasiliy Lomachenko over 12 tense rounds inside the MGM Grand Confernce Center on Saturday night. Lopez becomes the youngest fighter to become a four-belt champion since the

7:24 PM ET Steve KimESPN Unified lightweight titlist Vasiliy Lomachenko faces fellow titleholder Teofimo Lopez Jr. in the main event of a Top Rank card Saturday night at the MGM Grand Convention Center in Las Vegas (ESPN and ESPN+, 7:30 p.m. ET). Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs), the WBO and WBA titleholder and WBC “franchise” champion,

6:13 PM ET Steve KimESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. came in at the lightweight limit of 135 pounds on Friday’s official weigh-in for their anticipated lightweight unification fight at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Saturday (ESPN, 7:30 p.m. ET). There was a palpable tension as Lomachenko and Lopez engaged

3:00 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 Anthony Joshua will end a year out of the ring when he defends his WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight titles against Kubrat Pulev

6:47 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko’s famously idiosyncratic training regimen is less an athletic endeavor than a series of survivalist exercises, designed to exceed the ostensible limits of his mind, body and soul. He will hold his breath in excess of four minutes. Spar 15 consecutive 4-minute rounds with 30 seconds of rest in

10:29 PM ET Steve KimESPN The lightweight title unification fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. is tantalizingly close, and there are just a few small hurdles left to clear before we reach Saturday night. Both fighters need to pass a final COVID test and, of course, they need to make weight. After years

5:18 PM ET Steve KimESPN WBO middleweight champ Demetrius Andrade will face Dusty Hernandez Harrison in a 10-round non-title fight on Nov. 27 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The card also features former two-time titlist Daniel Jacobs vs. Gabe Rosado. Andrade (29-0, 18 KOs) is fighting for the first

8:26 AM ET Steve KimESPN The moment has finally arrived. Through years of conflict and antagonization, individual paths to titles and finally a global pandemic, on Saturday, Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. will step between the ropes to battle for lightweight world titles from all four major sanctioning bodies at the MGM Grand Convention

6:13 PM ET Steve KimESPN The rematch between WBA junior bantamweight titlist Joshua Franco and Andrew Moloney will take place on Nov. 14, in Las Vegas. The fight will be the co-main event of Terence Crawford’s welterweight title defense against Kell Brook (ESPN, 10 p.m. ET). On June 23, Franco (17-1-2, 8 KOs) won the

11:14 AM ET Associated Press The women’s world middleweight title fight Saturday between Savannah Marshall and Hannah Rankin in England has been called off after a trainer tested positive for the coronavirus. The trainer is Peter Fury. He is the uncle of heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. Peter Fury is Marshall’s trainer. Marshall, 29, was scheduled

7:13 AM ET Teofimo Lopez Sr. was in a hotel lobby in New York City in December 2018. The world didn’t know it yet, but when he ran into Vasiliy Lomachenko — the two-time Olympic gold medalist, three-division world titlist and boxing’s pound-for-pound king — and extended his hand, Lopez’s plan for his son was

3:15 PM ET Steve KimESPN The third matchup between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will not be Fury’s next fight, according to Top Rank Boxing CEO and founder Bob Arum. After Fury defeated Wilder back on Feb. 22, it was widely reported that there was an agreement for them to meet again

8:58 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 Andres Ferrari Close ESPN Editor Andres Ferrari is ESPN.com’s boxing and MMA editor. The much-anticipated fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. to

5:21 PM ET Tyson Fury said he wants to fight again this year, but it doesn’t appear that Deontay Wilder will be his next opponent. Fury was expected to have a trilogy fight with Wilder at Allegiant Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders, on Dec. 19, but plans seem to have fallen