Boxing

Aug 8, 2024, 03:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions IBF featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez defends his belt against Angelo Leo in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN card at Tingley Col iseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday (ESPN/ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET). Lopez’s last loss was in May 2019 and he

Associated Press Aug 8, 2024, 08:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Hasanboy Dusmatov held up two fingers and let out a triumphant scream after his hand was lifted in victory on Thursday evening in Olympic boxing. The Uzbek fighter was an Olympic champion for the second time after winning a tough, back-and-forth gold

Connor O’Halloran Aug 8, 2024, 05:14 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The Refugee Olympic Team waited eight years for its first Olympic medal before boxer Cindy Winner Djankeu Ngamba guaranteed at least a bronze earlier this week. That medal has now been awarded as Ngamba lost in her women’s 75kg semifinal. The Refugee

Associated Press Aug 7, 2024, 07:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Oleksandr Khyzhniak was one minute away from winning an Olympic gold medal three years ago when he was rocked by one miraculous punch. Khyzhniak went down, the fight was stopped and the most fearsome boxer in Tokyo had to settle for silver.

Aug 7, 2024, 07:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Terence Crawford moved up in weight once again and captured a world title in a fourth division. The former undisputed junior welterweight and welterweight champion, who also held a lightweight world title, made his debut at junior middleweight on Saturday with a closely contested unanimous decision

Aug 6, 2024, 10:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Tim Tszyu says he feels blessed after securing the chance to become a two-time world boxing champion. The International Boxing Federation has officially ordered super-welterweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev to defend his world title against the Australian son of a gun. Editor’s Picks Tszyu is the highest-ranked

ESPN News Services Aug 6, 2024, 07:32 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Kellie Harrington beat Yang Wenlu of China by split decision in the final of the lightweight category at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday to retain her crown and become the first Irish boxer to win back-to-back gold medals. After clinching victory,

Aug 5, 2024, 09:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The two female boxers at the heart of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics will stay in the competition for as long as they keep winning because they meet all eligibility criteria, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday. The IOC is in

Connor O’Halloran Aug 4, 2024, 11:24 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SEINE-SAINT-DENIS, France — After eight years of waiting, the Refugee Olympic Team will win its first medal at an Olympic Games this week. A portion of the team watched on and jumped with joy as boxer Cindy Winner Djankeu Ngamba fought in the women’s

Connor O’Halloran Aug 4, 2024, 06:23 AM ET SEINE-SAINT-DENIS, France — Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting has guaranteed herself a medal after securing victory over Bulgaria’s Svetlana Kamenova Staneva in the women’s 57kg quarterfinals on Sunday. Yu-ting has been the subject of an ongoing controversy in this year’s Olympic boxing event, after the International Boxing Federation

Mark Kriegel, ESPNAug 4, 2024, 04:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — The secret to solving Terence Crawford, said Joel Diaz, who trains the now-former WBA junior middleweight champion, Ismail Madrimov, was the body. “Nobody ever tests him to the body,” Diaz told ESPN the other night. “But we’re going there every chance

Aug 4, 2024, 01:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Terence Crawford overcame a tougher than expected challenge to become a four-division champion Saturday night in Los Angeles, defeating Israil Madrimov in a close decision to win the WBA junior middleweight title. Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs), fighting at 154 pounds for the first time, had some

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 3, 2024, 09:59 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 LOS ANGELES — Martin Bakole scored a devastating fifth-round TKO victory

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 4, 2024, 12:50 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 LOS ANGELES — Jose Valenzuela upset fellow Mexican Isaac Cruz by

Nick ParkinsonAug 3, 2024, 03:13 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Lewis Richardson, Team GB’s only remaining boxer at the 2024 Olympics, secured himself a medal in the junior middleweight (71kg) division with a narrow points win over Jordan’s Zeyad

Aug 3, 2024, 06:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The International Boxing Association (IBA) will award Italy’s Angela Carini, who lost her welterweight round-of-16 bout against Algerian Imane Khelif at the Paris Olympics in 46 seconds on Thursday, $50,000 in prize money, it said on Friday. Carini pulled out in the first round after the

Aug 2, 2024, 10:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Cape Verde boxer David de Pina could barely contain his joy after continuing his remarkable run at the Paris Games to reach the semifinals of the flyweight division on Friday and guarantee his country’s first Olympic medal. De Pina beat African Games champion and

Associated Press Aug 2, 2024, 08:48 AM ET VILLEPINTE, France — The Hungarian Boxing Association says it is sending letters of protest to both the IOC and Hungary’s Olympic committee over Anna Luca Hamori’s quarterfinal matchup with Imane Khelif of Algeria in women’s boxing at the Paris Olympics. Hamori still will accept her fight on