Boxing

4:25 PM ET WBO super featherweight champion Mikaela Mayer’s first title defense will come June 19 against Argentine fighter Erica Farias as a co-feature bout in Las Vegas, multiple sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Thirty-year-old Mayer (14-0, 5 KO) last fought on Oct. 31, 2020, when she won the WBO belt over Ewa Brodnicka. Mayer

7:47 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 While the date and venue for the undisputed world heavyweight clash between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have yet to be finalized, there are

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12:41 AM ET Emanuel Navarrete defended his WBO featherweight title with an action-packed 12th round TKO over Chris Diaz during Top Rank’s main event Saturday night. Known for his awkward and relentless style, Mexico’s Navarrete (34-1, 29 KOs) knocked Diaz down four times — but it was the final one with just seconds remaining in

8:02 PM ET Former lightweight titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko will return to the ring June 26 to face Masayoshi Nakatani, sources told ESPN’s Mark Kriegel on Saturday. The fight will take place in Las Vegas, according to a source. Lomachenko (14-2, 10 KOs), 33, hasn’t been in the ring since he lost a unanimous decision to

1:39 PM ET Ryan Garcia’s next fight is off. The lightweight contender announced on Instagram that he is pulling out of his July 9 fight against Javier Fortuna. Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) did not list a specific reason for his withdrawal. “At this time it is important to manage my health and wellbeing,” Garcia wrote

Apr 24, 2021 It had to end eventually. At some point in Edgar Berlanga’s pro career, he wasn’t going to finish his opponent in the first three minutes. Not only did Berlanga’s streak of first-round knockouts end on Saturday night against Demond Nicholson, but Berlanga’s opponent somehow found himself standing at the end of the

4:40 PM ET The proposed site fee to stage the Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua fight in Saudi Arabia exceeds $150 million, shattering the record for any site fee for a boxing event, according to ESPN’s Mark Kriegel. Fury and Joshua each will net around $75 million, and the rest, several million dollars, will be

7:49 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. There’s not one guy in the 126-pound division right now better than Emanuel Navarrete. That includes Christopher Diaz, who challenges for Navarrete’s WBO featherweight world title on Saturday. No one’s going to beat Navarrete in 12 rounds, when he’s standing on his feet — and that includes the other

7:49 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim “There’s no overtime in boxing.” That is an axiom that Andre Rozier has drilled into the boxers under his charge, from world champions to youngsters just learning the ropes. The Brooklyn-based trainer wants his fighters to get the job done inside the ring, smartly and efficiently, and get out of

7:49 AM ET Junior lightweight and lightweight titleholder Gervonta Davis is going up to junior welterweight to face unbeaten WBA “regular” titlist Mario Barrios on May 26. Davis has had problems making weight in the past — he was stripped of his IBF junior lightweight title before his title defense against Francisco Fonseca in 2017

4:38 PM ET Regis Prograis will get the knockout finish he believed he deserved this past weekend. Prograis’ technical decision win over Ivan Redkach on Saturday in Atlanta was overturned to a sixth-round TKO on Monday, Georgia Athletic and Entertainment Commission executive director Matt Woodruff told ESPN on Monday. The bout originally was ruled a

8:37 PM ET Ben Askren isn’t really sure how to compute what happened over the weekend. The former UFC fighter and multiple-time MMA champion was knocked out in the first round by Jake Paul in a boxing match last Saturday night in Atlanta. Askren, a former Olympic wrestler, was never a great boxer. So, getting

7:01 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 Promoter Eddie Hearn has said that Anthony Joshua’s fight against Tyson Fury is bigger than the Olympics and has no concern about the undisputed

1:12 AM ET Jake Paul took less than two minutes to knock out Ben Askren and claim his third pro boxing win on Saturday night. In the main event of a Triller card inside of Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Paul, a social media standout who made his name on YouTube and a variety of other platforms,

2:18 AM ET As a DJ spun music above the ring, Jake Paul stood bouncing around, posing for photographs and dancing with his team. About 10 minutes earlier, he landed a single straight right hand to the face of Ben Askren, knocking him out in the first round. It was a short end to a

1:38 AM ET It took Jake Paul less than two minutes to win his third professional fight. Paul, the YouTube star-turned boxer, sent Ben Askren to the canvas with a straight right hand midway through the first round of their cruiserweight fight. Even though Askren got up, referee Brian Stutts decided Askren couldn’t go on,

7:51 PM ET YouTube star Jake Paul faces former MMA champion Ben Askren in an eight-round cruiserweight battle Saturday night at the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia (PPV, 9 p.m. ET). The fight will headline a Triller Fight Club card that also includes a 10-round junior welterweight fight between former titlist Regis Prograis and