6:25 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 Josh Taylor left Apinun Khongsong folded up in pain from a body shot in the first round to retain his WBA-IBF world super lightweight
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10:10 PM ET Steve KimESPN Jermall Charlo retained his WBC middleweight title by outpointing Sergiy Derevyanchenko over 12 fast-paced rounds in the “first main event” of a two-part Showtime PPV card at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, on Saturday. At the end of the fight, all three judges had the fight for Charlo,
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2:02 AM ET Steve KimESPN Jermell Charlo unified three junior middleweight world titles with an eighth-round knockout victory over Jeison Rosario on Saturday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. And the final blow was among the most unusual knockout punches you’ll ever see — a left jab to the body. Rosario (20-2-1,
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12:06 AM ET ESPN News Services Joe Pavelski and Corey Perry don’t want to leave the bubble just yet. Pavelski tied it 6:45 left in the regulation, laid out to block a shot in the first overtime before Perry scored the winner in double OT and the Dallas Stars avoided elimination Saturday night by beating
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1:44 AM ET A year ago, the hardest thing in front of LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers was resurrecting a storied franchise that had missed the playoffs six consecutive seasons. And at the time, that seemed like a pretty steep hill to climb. There was no way to know what awful events lay
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12:11 AM ET The UFC’s light heavyweight division might not have Jon Jones — but perhaps it might still have a dominant champ. Jan Blachowicz (27-8), an overlooked slugger from Poland, defeated Dominick Reyes (12-2) via TKO at 4 minutes, 36 seconds of the second round of their light heavyweight title fight on Saturday at
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12:44 AM ET Israel Adesanya stopped Paulo Costa in the second round to retain his UFC middleweight title in the main event Saturday night at UFC 253 on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The TKO came at 3 minutes, 59 seconds. Adesanya went to work on Costa’s lead leg early on, whipping
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10:50 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Chase Briscoe routed the field in the Xfinity Series playoff opener for his eighth win of the season, the number he’s said should earn him a promotion to NASCAR’s top level. Briscoe, in a Ford for Stewart-Haas Racing, won all three stages Saturday night at Las Vegas
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10:05 PM ET The Green Bay Packers will give star wide receiver Davante Adams up until game time Sunday night to recover from his hamstring injury and prove that he can play against the New Orleans Saints, a team source tells ESPN. Adams is officially listed as doubtful, and the source told ESPN that it’s
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10:33 PM ET Associated Press ARCADIA, Calif. — Improbable rallied from last to a 4½-length victory over stablemate Maximum Security in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita. Ridden by Drayden Van Dyke, Improbable ran 1⅛ miles in 1 minute, 49.01 seconds to earn his third consecutive Grade 1 victory and fourth
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10:05 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — DJ LeMahieu is on the verge of a first in more than a century of Major League Baseball: the first player to win undisputed batting titles in both the American and National Leagues. Luke Voit is about to become a more common name atop the leaderboards
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