Boxing

7:45 AM ET Claressa Shields is back on top in the ESPN women’s pound-for-pound rankings after a dominant victory over Savannah Marshall. With the victory, Shields (13-0, 2 KOs), became the undisputed middleweight champion for the second time. She is the first fighter, male or female, to be undisputed in the same division twice. She’s

5:13 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Kazuto Ioka and Joshua Franco have agreed to terms for a 115-pound title unification on Dec. 31 in Japan, sources told ESPN. Ioka (29-2, 15 KOs) holds the WBO junior bantamweight title, while Franco (18-1-2, 8 KOs) was elevated by the WBA in August after its super champion, Juan Francisco

3:47 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall have agreed to terms for a Feb. 4 rematch in the U.K. for Taylor’s WBO junior welterweight championship, sources told ESPN. Taylor (19-0, 13 KOs) retained his four 140-pound titles via a controversial split decision when he faced Catterall in February in his native Scotland.

1:37 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN David Benavidez and Jose Uzcategui are finalizing a deal for a super middleweight bout slated for January, sources told ESPN. The pair were set to square off in November 2021 before Uzcategui tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug rEPO (recombinant erythropoietin), a synthetic version of EPO. Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs)

12:36 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Devin Haney picked up in the rematch where he had left off, with another unanimous-decision victory over George Kambosos to retain the undisputed lightweight championship Sunday afternoon at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. Haney, who also routed Kambosos in June in Australia, won via scores of 118-110, 119-109 and

12:43 AM ET Former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder marked his much-anticipated return to the boxing ring with a thunderous knockout punch that stopped Robert Helenius in the opening round of their bout at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Saturday night. A punch like that one declared Wilder’s intentions to

1:25 AM ET Mike Coppinger Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Devin Haney showed once again this weekend why he deserves pound-for-pound consideration, while Deontay Wilder’s right hand was back in action, finishing Robert Helenius in Round

Oct 15, 2022 Claressa Shields stood inside the ring in the middle of the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night, her eyes looking around at the British crowd that had just watched her assert why she is the greatest women’s fighter of all time. She got emotional. All that had happened, both in the

7:56 PM ET Mike Coppinger Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Devin Haney returns to Australia to face George Kambosos Jr. in a rematch of his victory in June to win the undisputed lightweight championship. The fight

Oct 15, 2022 Claressa Shields jumped up and down in the ring, having gone to the United Kingdom to fight a British fighter and still come out of the toughest bout of her career as the undisputed middleweight champion of the world. Again. Shields beat Savannah Marshall by unanimous decision (97-93, 96-94, 96-94) in London

Oct 15, 2022 As promised, George Kambosos Jr has presented in supreme physical condition at an explosive, chaotic weigh-in for Sunday’s world lightweight title rematch with Devin Haney in Melbourne. Unlike before his first fight with Haney in June, Kambosos comfortably made weight at 134.08 pounds, easily under the 135-pound limit, before mayhem broke out

2:19 PM ET Claressa Shields will once again try to unify all four major women’s middleweight world titles when she faces Savannah Marshall in the main event of an all-women card at the O2 arena in London on Saturday (ESPN+, 2:30 p.m. ET). This is the first of two major boxing cards on ESPN+ on

11:41 AM ET UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) is investigating Conor Benn after he failed a drugs test ahead of his highly anticipated fight with Chris Eubank Jr., the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) said on Friday. The bout between welterweight Benn and super middleweight Eubank Jr., set at a catchweight of 157 pounds, was called

7:48 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Devin Haney pressed forward and threw shots with bad intentions, pinning his sparring partner along the ropes. Weeks before Haney traveled to Australia for his second consecutive fight against George Kambosos Jr., he was putting the finishing touches on his American training camp, his first as undisputed

7:47 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Deontay Wilder returns to the ring on Saturday for the first time since his knockout loss to Tyson Fury in their trilogy fight a year ago. He’ll face Robert Helenius at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York (Fox PPV, 9 p.m. ET). Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) possesses a powerful

7:45 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall headline an all-women card at the O2 in London on Saturday (ESPN+, 2:30 p.m. ET) in a fight to crown the undisputed middleweight champion. Shields and Marshall are the best two fighters in the division — and two of the best in the entire

5:07 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 Naoya Inoue will attempt to become undisputed world bantamweight champion when he faces Paul Butler at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday,

Oct 12, 2022 Conor Benn has said he expects an apology from critics as UK Anti-Doping continues its investigation into his failed drug test. Benn’s bout with Chris Eubank Jr. was called off last week after he tested positive for the banned substance clomifene, a fertility drug for women which can boost testosterone levels in