Boxing

3:36 PM ET Former light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev has tested positive for banned substances ahead of his next fight. The 37-year-old’s test by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association showed external testosterone and metabolites, according to results obtained by ESPN on Thursday. The sample was taken on Dec. 30 and now places his fight on Jan.

5:25 PM ET Unified light heavyweight world titlist Artur Beterbiev’s title defense against Adam Deines has been rescheduled for March 20, most likely in Russia, according to the WBC. Beterbiev (15-0, 15 KOs), of Russia, who also owns the IBF title, was scheduled to face Meng Fanlong in March 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic forced

8:58 AM ET In the words of Canelo Alvarez, it’s time to “be bold.” There’s no offseason when it comes to boxing, but as the calendar turns to 2021, and without any big fights scheduled just yet, it is time to indeed follow that catchphrase, be bold and offer up our biggest prognostications for the

2:11 PM ET WBO junior lightweight champion Jamel Herring will defend his title against former two-division champion Carl Frampton on Feb. 27 in London, promoter Frank Warren announced Tuesday. It’s a long-awaited battle between Herring (22-2, 10 KOs) and Frampton (28-2, 16 KOs) that had been delayed by COVID-19 issues, but it should be a

8:49 AM ET Mikaela Mayer Amid the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic, boxer Mikaela Mayer had a breakout 2020. Despite fight cancellations and postponements, including a false positive prefight test for the virus that led to her removal from Top Rank’s first card back from hiatus in June, Mayer captured the attention of the boxing

6:32 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 Middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. has signed with European promoter Team Sauerland as he targets a world title shot in 2021. Eubank Jr. (29-2,

6:22 PM ET Former four-division title-holder Adrien Broner will make his return to the ring on Feb. 13, a source confirmed to ESPN on Friday, marking the first time in over two years he will fight. Broner hasn’t appeared in the ring since Jan. 19, 2019, when he lost a unanimous decision to Manny Pacquiao

When Teofimo Lopez stepped into the ring to face Vasiliy Lomachenko in a lightweight title unification fight, the stakes seemed simple enough. If Lopez upset one of the sport’s top pound-for-pound fighters, he would immediately position himself as one of the best in the 135-pound division, and one of boxing’s biggest attractions. When Lopez won

6:39 PM ET WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney said he doesn’t believe his mandatory challenger, Ryan Garcia, is willing to fight him next, and he’s begun shifting his attention to a potential bout with unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez for all the belts in the division. Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) is coming off a seventh-round

1:30 PM ET The WBA has ordered a unification fight between lightweight titleholder Devin Haney and interim belt holder Ryan Garcia, but Garcia wants to face Gervonta Davis next. Can that fight happen? Will the division champion, Teofimo Lopez, instead face Haney to really unify all four belts? In his win over Luke Campbell, Garcia

8:58 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN I cover sports for a living, but I’ve been a fan of sports — particularly boxing — much longer than I’ve been in the field as a journalist. On the weekends, especially growing up, fights were an event in my household. My mom would cook the best food, we would

6:30 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 David Avanesyan’s European welterweight title fight with Josh Kelly has been postponed again after professional boxing in the United Kingdom was suspended for January

8:32 PM 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. Ryan

7:47 PM ET Ryan Garcia was carried to the ring like boxing royalty Saturday night, and he left having proved his “King Ryan” persona has more behind it than impressive YouTube videos and 7.8 million Instagram followers. Garcia stopped Luke Campbell with a body shot in the seventh round before about 6,000 fans at American

3:09 PM ET Lightweight sensation Ryan Garcia takes on Luke Campbell for the vacant WBC interim lightweight title in the main event of a DAZN card at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Saturday. Garcia (20-0, 17 KOs) has won four of his past five fights by stoppage, including an impressive first-round KO over

7:15 PM ET Ryan Garcia proved he’s worthy of the hype. Garcia survived an early knockdown to pick up a stunning seventh-round TKO victory over former title challenger Luke Campbell at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Saturday night. Garcia dropped Campbell for good with a big left hook to the body that sent

5:55 PM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. From the moment the fight was announced, Ryan Garcia vs. Luke Campbell was going to boil down to one major talking point: whether or not Garcia is ready to step up and prove he’s the real deal as an elite boxer and not just a social media star. But

7:15 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN SAN DIEGO — It’s not what I’d expect of a Gen Z playlist, much less from a fighter losing himself in the imagined aggressions of shadowboxing: “Married Life,” better known as the theme from “Up”; Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”; and Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major. “It calms