Boxing

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderNov 8, 2024, 09:50 AM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Keyshawn Davis’ homecoming fight vs. Gustavo Lemos will proceed Friday evening

Nick ParkinsonNov 6, 2024, 02:39 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Welterweight contender Conor Benn had his suspension lifted by the U.K. National Anti-Doping Panel (NAPD) following his positive test for a banned substance before his cancelled fight with Chris

Mike Coppinger Close Mike Coppinger ESPN Boxing Insider Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Nick Parkinson Close Nick Parkinson Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for

Nov 6, 2024, 11:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Lightweight contender Keyshawn Davis takes on Gustavo Lemos in the main event of a Top Rank card on Friday at Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia (ESPN+, 6:20 p.m. ET). Davis (11-0, 7 KOs), of Norfolk, will be fighting at home for the first time since he

Associated Press Nov 4, 2024, 10:50 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The most successful boxing nation at the Paris Olympics has joined the new governing body that aims to keep the sport in the 2028 Los Angeles Games after years of turmoil outside the ring. The boxing federation of Uzbekistan, whose fighters won five of

Nick ParkinsonNov 2, 2024, 08:27 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Chantelle Cameron is targeting the winner of the rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano later this month after a comfortable, unanimous points victory over Patricia Berghult on Saturday.

Nov 1, 2024, 09:27 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Getting into the ring with Mike Tyson is likely too intimidating for most boxing fans but high-rollers looking to get closer to the action than ever before can do so by spending $2 million for ringside apron seats to his Nov. 15 fight with Jake Paul.

Oct 24, 2024, 09:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Robson Conceicao makes the first defense of his WBC junior lightweight title in a rematch against O’Shaquie Foster on Saturday night at Turning Stone Resort & Casino, in Verona, New York (ESPN+, 5:50 p.m. ET). Conceicao (19-2-1, 9 KOs) defeated Foster by a controversial split decision

James Regan Oct 27, 2024, 04:13 AM ET Open Extended Reactions MANCHESTER, England — Through sheer will and determination, Jack Catterall has forced himself into a junior welterweight world title fight. It hasn’t been easy. Two brutal bouts with Josh Taylor and multiple injuries have steered Catterall (30-1 13 KOs) down the long road, but

James Regan Oct 26, 2024, 06:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Jack Catterall beat Regis Prograis on Saturday. Alex Livesey/Getty Images MANCHESTER — Jack Catterall beat Regis Prograis via unanimous decision in Manchester on Saturday, coming through a tense fight to put himself in the frame for a junior welterweight world title fight. All three judges

James Regan Oct 25, 2024, 09:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Regis Prograis has a vision of the headlines after his junior welterweight fight against Jack Catterall on Saturday: “Prograis beats Catterall in his own backyard.” Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena, which will host the hotly anticipated clash, is less than an hour’s drive from Catterall’s

Oct 25, 2024, 08:53 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Lawrence Okolie has signed with Queensberry promotions. Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images Former cruiserweight world champion Lawrence Okolie has signed with Frank Warren and Queensberry as he eyes a move to the heavyweight division. Okolie (20-1 15 KOs) won the WBO cruiserweight title in 2020 and the

Oct 24, 2024, 08:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ​​There was a chance Sebastian Fundora would face Tim Tszyu in his next fight, a rematch of last year’s bloody decision victory, but with Tszyu losing by TKO to Bakhram Murtazaliev on Saturday, Fundora has his eyes on a different opponent: Errol Spence Jr. Spence, a

Nick ParkinsonOct 23, 2024, 03:45 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Jack Catterall sees a victory over Regis Prograis on Saturday as a stepping stone to a junior welterweight title shot, rather than take a third fight with Josh Taylor.

Oct 24, 2024, 06:55 AM ET Oleksandr Usyk (L) and Tyson Fury in London on Wednesday. Andrew Redington/Getty Images Tyson Fury has revealed his wife, Paris, suffered a miscarriage on the eve of his heavyweight title fight against Oleksandr Usyk in May. Paris Fury was six months pregnant with the couple’s eighth child and did not

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 23, 2024, 04:19 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Tyson Fury vows to be “more focused” during his unified heavyweight

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 23, 2024, 05:39 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Undisputed minimumweight champion Seniesa Estrada announced her retirement from boxing Wednesday

James Regan Oct 23, 2024, 02:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Oleksandr Usyk cut a formidable figure at the pre-fight news conference with Tyson Fury at London’s Guildhall on Thursday, dressed as Agent 47 from the movie “Hitman.” While he didn’t engage in any verbal sparring and repeatedly delivered one-word responses, Usyk —