Boxing

3:10 AM ET Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Cameron Wolfe Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the Broncos for two seasons with the Denver Post Graduate of the University of Houston A native of Jackson, Miss. Juan

1:14 AM ET Who says sequels can’t top the original? It did Saturday night when Juan Francisco Estrada defeated Roman “Chocalatito” Gonzalez by split decision in an extremely close Fight of the Year quality bout at American Airlines Arena in Dallas to win the WBA, WBC, and The Ring magazine junior bantamweight titles. Eight years

6:13 PM ET Tyson Fury’s heavyweight unification fight against Anthony Joshua is not a done deal, according to an interview Fury on Friday. “I’m not training anymore,” Fury told Alex Steedman and Barry Jones on a Top Rank broadcast on ESPN+. “I’m not training no more. I’ve never stopped training since December 2017, and even

7:56 AM ET Juan Francisco Estrada was only 22 years old the first time he faced Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. He was still learning about what kind of boxer he was, and he took a big chance against a guy who was already building his legend, owner of a junior flyweight world title and a record

7:14 AM ET Kathleen McNamee This article is part of ESPN’s coverage of Women’s History Month. When Natasha Jonas met Ireland’s Katie Taylor at the 2012 London Olympics, the stadium was quite literally rocking. At 113.7 decibels the noise was as loud as a rock concert, which happens to be four decibels greater than the

8:16 AM ET FLINT, Mich. — It was a little past 8 p.m. on Friday and the music inside Claressa Shields’ dressing room started to heat up. She grabbed her portable speaker, thumbed with her phone and hit play. Cardi B’s “Up” came on. Shields turned her space into a dance party, twisting her body

6:16 PM ET Associated Press FEASTERVILLE, Pa. — Smokin’ Joe Frazier stood fearsome in bronze, his frozen left hook on the brink of connecting with Muhammad Ali, much as the power punch did 50 years ago in the Fight of the Century. Linked forever by a trilogy of bouts, it’s the first meeting — won

3:09 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN On a March morning, in a suite at the Essex House, half a century ago, Muhammad Ali’s longtime friend and adviser Gene Kilroy received a call from the late Budd Schulberg, a writer whose contribution to the American canon includes “The Harder They Fall,” “On the Waterfront” and a line

12:35 AM ET FLINT, Mich. — Claressa Shields wanted to make history on Friday night on multiple levels. The first part, she handled before she even stepped in the ring, headlining an all-women’s pay-per-view card. The second, she took care of in the ring in a way similar to all of her fights before. Shields

8:49 PM ET FLINT, Mich. — After a year of waiting, Claressa Shields faces Marie-Eve Dicaire in the main event of an all-women’s pay-per-view event Friday night at the Dort Financial Center in Flint. This will be the first boxing pay-per-view in 20 years to be headlined by a women’s fight, and a limited crowd

12:29 PM ET WBO featherweight world titlist Emanuel Navarrete will make the first defense of his belt on Saturday, April 24, against former title challenger Christopher Diaz, in the main event of a Top Rank card on ESPN at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Knockout artist Edgar

8:05 AM ET Michael Rothstein Close ESPN Staff Writer Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette 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

1:09 PM ET The junior welterweight unification title bout between Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor will take place May 22 at a venue to be determined in Las Vegas. Ramirez, the WBC and WBO champion, and Taylor, the IBF and WBA champion, had initially been planning to fight May 8, but the fight was moved

5:25 AM ET IN A YEAR when Claressa Shields bought a house, created an expansive home gym and successfully gained a larger social media following, the one thing she couldn’t do was what she wanted to do the most: fight. It had been a year of yo-yo fight planning — dates given and pulled back,

Feb 1, 2021 It wasn’t close on Saturday night, and as expected, Canelo Alvarez took care of WBC mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim to retain his titles. Immediately after the fight, Alvarez’s next fight was announced — a unification bout against Billy Joe Saunders. Will Alvarez achieve his goal of unifying the super middleweight division in

12:32 AM ET Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Michael Rothstein Close ESPN Staff Writer Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Another Canelo Alvarez fight,

11:18 PM ET From the opening bell Saturday night, Canelo Alvarez appeared destined for a knockout victory against mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim. Alvarez didn’t have to wait long for that. Yildirim’s corner threw in the towel at the end of the third round, as Alvarez picked up a technical knockout victory and retained his WBC

1:34 PM ET Former junior welterweight champion Regis Prograis will be featured on a unique boxing card. Prograis will face Ivan Redkach on the undercard of the Jake Paul-Ben Askren event on April 17 that will be produced by Triller, a source confirmed to ESPN on Saturday. The recent development comes on the heels of