Boxing

Timothy Bradley Jr.Oct 10, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Close Timothy Bradley Jr. is an ESPN’s boxing analyst, a two-division, five-time world champion and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Open Extended Reactions Call him Mr. Perfect. With a 20-0 record, and all 20 of those victories coming by knockout, Artur Beterbiev strikes

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 9, 2024, 07:28 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 Stephen Fulton and Brandon Figueroa will meet in a featherweight rematch

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 9, 2024, 06:48 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 Teofimo Lopez, in a legal letter sent to Top Rank on

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 9, 2024, 03:59 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 Bruce Carrington will fight on the Nov. 15 Mike Tyson-Jake Paul

Nick ParkinsonOct 9, 2024, 07:51 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Saturday brings another stacked boxing card in Saudi Arabia, headlined by the Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol matchup for the undisputed light heavyweight championship. It’s a fight of rare

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 8, 2024, 06:29 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 David Benavidez will meet David Morrell in a high-stakes light heavyweight

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 8, 2024, 02:55 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 The vandalism charge against boxing star Ryan Garcia was dismissed Tuesday

Nick ParkinsonOct 8, 2024, 07:46 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Once upon a time, Frazer Clarke got paid for stopping fights rather than being in them. Clarke, who challenges Fabio Wardley for the British heavyweight title in a rematch

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 6, 2024, 10:22 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 Boxing star Gervonta Davis will defend his WBA lightweight title against

Oct 6, 2024, 04:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Tyson Fury has said he will throw caution to the wind when he faces heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and aim for a knockout victory in their rematch. In their first bout in May, Fury hit his stride in the fourth round and engaged in some showmanship

Nick ParkinsonOct 5, 2024, 06:30 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Nick Ball looks like the world’s leading 126-pounds boxer after he battered Ronny Rios in 10 rounds of a first defense of his WBA world featherweight title Saturday. The

Oct 5, 2024, 09:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions For the first time in the four-belt era, two light heavyweight will meet to fight for the undisputed championship. Artur Beterbiev, the WBC, WBO and IBF champion, faces WBA titleholder Dmitry Bivol on Saturday, Oct. 12, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (ESPN+, 6 p.m. ET) to unify

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 3, 2024, 07:06 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 Naoya Inoue and Sam Goodman are finalizing a deal for a

Oct 3, 2024, 05:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A number of interesting boxing rematches could be made — or not — in the next few weeks, and two world champions are making title defenses this weekend. A possible second fight between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney seems to be farther away following Haney’s recent

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 3, 2024, 03:44 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 Liam Paro will defend his IBF junior welterweight title against Richardson

Oct 2, 2024, 03:51 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Janibek Alimkhanuly defends his IBF middleweight title against Andrei Mikhailovich on Friday at The Star Sydney in Pyrmont, Australia (ESPN+, 5 a.m. ET). The fight was originally scheduled for July 13 in Las Vegas, but two days before that date, Alimkhanuly fainted while trying to make

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 1, 2024, 12:47 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 Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn’s defamation lawsuit against Jake Paul is proceeding

Oct 1, 2024, 03:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Former WBO welterweight champion Sandy Ryan has called for an immediate rematch against Mikaela Mayer after Ryan was attacked with a can of paint before their fight Friday. Ryan was leaving her New York hotel to travel to Madison Square Garden on Friday evening when a