Boxing

7:35 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 getting knocked out of the ring in a jarring defeat five months ago, Michael Conlan would have been forgiven had he chosen an

11:42 AM ET The most anticipated return of Jake Paul against Hasim Rahman Jr., the son of former heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman, was canceled on Saturday due to Rahman’s inability to make the 200-pound weight limit agreed for the fight. Rahman (12-1, 6 KOs) has competed at heavyweight throughout his professional career and last fought

11:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jose Ramirez will wait a little bit longer for the opportunity to regain his WBC junior welterweight title. He scrapped plans for a vacant title fight against Jose Zepeda that was ordered by the WBC because of a conflict with his wedding in October, a spokesperson for Ramirez said in

12:55 AM ET Danny Garcia showed he might have a little left to offer in the ring. In his first fight in 19 months and in a new weight class, the former champion showed he still has the skills that made him one of boxing’s top draws. A barrage of body shots and precise punching

8:42 PM ET The scheduled Aug. 6 boxing pay-per-view card headlined by Jake Paul and Hasim Rahman Jr. has been canceled due to a weight issue with Rahman, Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) wrote in a statement Saturday night. The event was to take place at New York’s Madison Square Garden. According to MVP’s statement,

2:50 AM ET South Africa’s Jackson Chauke claimed the ABU Flyweight title at ESPN Africa Boxing 19 with a third round TKO of Tanzanian Mustapha Mkupasi in Johannesburg on Thursday. Chauke (21W-1L-2D) landed a huge overhand left which sent Mkupasi (9W-1L-0D) to the deck midway through round three. The Tanzanian answered the count, only to

2:31 PM ET GLENDALE, Calif. — Seniesa Estrada, the WBA strawweight and WBO junior flyweight champion, has left Golden Boy and signed a multiyear deal with Top Rank. The 30-year-old is the second female fighter to sign with Top Rank, joining Mikaela Mayer, who signed a three-year contract extension earlier this year. “It’s awesome,” Estrada

7:50 AM ET The boxing schedule is filling up quickly for the second half of the year and already includes a number of interesting matchups. Anthony Joshua, with Robert Garcia now in his corner, is facing Oleksandr Usyk on Aug. 20 in a rematch for three heavyweight world titles. Is that fight a better matchup

Jul 27, 2022 Sabelo Ngebiyana will take on crowd favourite Mzuvukile Magwaca in a junior lightweight bout at ESPN Africa Boxing on July 28, looking to bounce back after his IBF title was taken off his hands. Ngebiyana has had a disappointing year to date, after he had to relinquish his IBF international bantamweight title

12:54 PM ET Ramla Ali will make history next month when she faces Crystal Garcia Nova as part of the first professional women’s boxing match in Saudi Arabia on the undercard of the Anthony Joshua-Oleksandr Usyk heavyweight title fight in Jeddah on Aug. 20. It’s another first for Ali, a Muslim woman born in Somalia

9:43 PM ET A boxing card in Colombia on Aug. 13 featuring three WBC title fights, headlined by bridgerweight champion Oscar Rivas’ bout against Lukasz Rozanski, has been postponed, according to his promoter, Yvon Michel. Michel said no date has been finalized for a rescheduling of the fight, which was going to be Rivas’ debut

11:54 AM ET Stephen HolderESPN INDIANAPOLIS — Colts owner Jim Irsay made a major late-night acquisition at a hefty price tag. Irsay’s latest move wasn’t football-related. Instead, it is the newest addition to his growing historic collection: Muhammad Ali’s WBC championship belt won in the fighter’s 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” victory over George Foreman

5:03 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The Devin Haney-George Kambosos rematch for the undisputed lightweight championship is being planned for Oct. 16 in Australia, sources tell ESPN, which will accommodate an ESPN prime-time telecast on Oct. 15. The bout could land at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena, home of the Australian Open, but no site has been

7:53 AM ET Mike Coppinger 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 Unlike most other professional sports, trades do not happen in boxing. Boxing promoters sign fighters to their companies and promote their fights,

12:46 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury announced his retirement in April, but it doesn’t appear the heavyweight champion’s hiatus will last long. Since Fury’s sixth-round TKO win over Dillian Whyte in April in London, “The Gypsy King” has repeatedly flip-flopped between expressing his desire to fight again and remain retired. Earlier this summer, Fury

6:05 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN If 2021 was the year of the undisputed champion, then 2022 is shaping up as the year of the comeback. Several big-name boxers who suffered high-profile losses last year will compete for the first time in the second part of 2022. Others, like Danny Garcia, didn’t compete in 2021. Adrien

1:24 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Even though Ryan Garcia looked better than ever with a sixth-round KO of Javier Fortuna on Saturday in Los Angeles, it feels like we’re moving farther away from a super fight against Gervonta Davis. The impressive performance — knockdowns in Rounds 4, 5 and 6 — was Garcia’s second consecutive

12:22 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Following a disappointing performance in April, Ryan Garcia impressed against a far better opponent on Saturday with a sixth-round knockout of Javier Fortuna in a 140-pound bout in Los Angeles. The 23-year-old star floored Fortuna in Rounds 4, 5 and 6, all the result of Garcia’s lightning-quick left hook. The