Boxing

2:05 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Mauricio Lara and Leigh Wood will meet in a WBA featherweight title rematch on May 27 in Manchester, England, Matchroom Boxing announced. Lara (26-2-1, 19 KOs) scored a seventh-round TKO victory over Wood in February to win his first title. The 25-year-old Mexican was down on all three scorecards when

10:03 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 When it comes to assessing the best British boxers of all time and the best globally in the early 1970s, Ken Buchanan’s name will

6:45 PM ET Connor O’Halloran LONDON — Former heavyweight unified champion Anthony Joshua claimed his first win in over two years with a unanimous decision victory over American Jermaine Franklin at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday. The judges scored the bout 118-111, 117-111 and 117-111. Joshua (25-3, 22 KOs) had suffered defeats to

1:43 AM ET Robeisy Ramirez now has a championship belt to add to his long list of accomplishments. The two-time Olympic gold medalist joined the ranks of boxing’s titlists with a convincing victory over Isaac Dogboe on Saturday night. Ramirez defeated Dogboe via unanimous decision — 117-110, 118-109, 119-108 — to win the WBO featherweight

2:02 AM ET Jamal CollierESPN In his first fight in more than three years, boxing Hall of Famer Roy Jones Jr. was defeated by former UFC champion Anthony Pettis by majority decision on Saturday night in Milwaukee. Two judges scored the bout 77-75 and 78-74 for Pettis, while a third judge scored it a 76-76

8:08 PM ET Connor O’Halloran LONDON — So much of Saturday’s fight was about starting a new chapter for former heavyweight unified champion Anthony Joshua. It had been eight months since the British heavyweight — once upon a time so clean cut and untouchable — gave an embarrassing speech in the ring in Riyadh, Saudi

11:16 AM ET Ken Buchanan, Scotland’s first undisputed boxing world champion, has died at the age of 77, the former lightweight’s charity foundation said Saturday. Edinburgh-born Buchanan beat Panama’s Ismael Laguna in Puerto Rico for the WBA lightweight title in 1970 and took the vacant WBC belt a year later after fighting Ruben Navarro in

11:53 AM ET ESPN News Services LONDON — Anthony Joshua will come in at the heaviest fighting weight of his career when he takes on Jermaine Franklin in London on Saturday. Joshua, a former two-time world heavyweight champion, weighed in Friday at 255.4 pounds for the fight at the O2 Arena. That is nearly 11

7:48 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Anthony Joshua’s likeness was plastered on the exterior walls of New York’s Madison Square Garden in larger-than-life form ahead of his hotly anticipated U.S. debut in June 2019. Joshua, of Watford, England, then one of the sport’s top-two global stars alongside Canelo Alvarez, already had conquered Europe and now was

7:50 AM ET As far as professional debuts go, it couldn’t have gone much worse for Robeisy Ramirez. Typically, the first fight for decorated amateurs such as Ramirez is a quick showcase for their potential. But after the two-time Olympic gold medalist for Cuba was knocked down in his first pro round — and lost

1:15 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The welterweight fight between Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Eimantas Stanionis, scheduled for April 29 in Arlington, Texas, has been postponed after Ortiz was forced to withdraw with an unspecified medical issue, sources told ESPN. The 147-pound fight is expected to be rescheduled for this summer, sources said. It was originally

7:43 AM ET ARLINGTON, Tex. — After another signature win as a trainer, the car waited to whisk Derrick James back from the site of his latest success to the hotel. But after Errol Spence defeated Yordenis Ugas in April 2022, James waived away the black SUV parked in the bowels of AT&T Stadium. The

1:37 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The Stephen Fulton-Naoya Inoue fight for Fulton’s unified junior featherweight championship has been rescheduled for July 25 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Inoue’s American promoter, Top Rank, announced Wednesday. Inoue, ESPN’s No. 2 pound-for-pound boxer, suffered an undisclosed injury while training earlier this month ahead of the scheduled May 7

1:51 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN David Benavidez scored the biggest win of his career with a unanimous decision victory over Caleb Plant on Saturday night in Las Vegas. Plant jumped out to an early lead on the strength of his jab and movement in the large, 22-by-22 ring, but Benavidez was able to hurt his

1:47 AM ET At one point Saturday night, it looked like Seniesa Estrada was playing with her opponent a little bit. Her hands moved all over the place — even rolling them over one another in one sequence with a bit of flair — but in some ways that is just Estrada’s style. It’s worked

1:44 AM ET Mike Coppinger Michael Rothstein Close Michael Rothstein ESPN Staff Writer Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Super middleweight interim champion David Benavidez showed why he’s one of the best two fighters in the division (after champion Canelo Alvarez) by demolishing

6:51 AM ET LOS ANGELES — They couldn’t have understood in the moment what one declaration from an 8-year-old child could mean for both the father and the daughter. How one decision, essentially out of the blue, could be the fulcrum of change for both of them. One night, while they were watching fights on

4:51 AM ET WBC heavyweight title-holder Tyson Fury has labelled Oleksandr Usyk a “14-stone coward” after talks for their undisputed heavyweight title fight on April 29 broke down. Sources told ESPN on Wednesday that the talks came to a standstill with the two parties unable to agree deal points beyond the agreed 70-30 revenue split