Boxing

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 6, 2024, 10:22 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 Boxing star Gervonta Davis will defend his WBA lightweight title against

Oct 6, 2024, 04:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Tyson Fury has said he will throw caution to the wind when he faces heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and aim for a knockout victory in their rematch. In their first bout in May, Fury hit his stride in the fourth round and engaged in some showmanship

Nick ParkinsonOct 5, 2024, 06:30 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Nick Ball looks like the world’s leading 126-pounds boxer after he battered Ronny Rios in 10 rounds of a first defense of his WBA world featherweight title Saturday. The

Oct 5, 2024, 09:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions For the first time in the four-belt era, two light heavyweight will meet to fight for the undisputed championship. Artur Beterbiev, the WBC, WBO and IBF champion, faces WBA titleholder Dmitry Bivol on Saturday, Oct. 12, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (ESPN+, 6 p.m. ET) to unify

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 3, 2024, 07:06 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 Naoya Inoue and Sam Goodman are finalizing a deal for a

Oct 3, 2024, 05:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A number of interesting boxing rematches could be made — or not — in the next few weeks, and two world champions are making title defenses this weekend. A possible second fight between Ryan Garcia and Devin Haney seems to be farther away following Haney’s recent

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 3, 2024, 03:44 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 Liam Paro will defend his IBF junior welterweight title against Richardson

Oct 2, 2024, 03:51 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Janibek Alimkhanuly defends his IBF middleweight title against Andrei Mikhailovich on Friday at The Star Sydney in Pyrmont, Australia (ESPN+, 5 a.m. ET). The fight was originally scheduled for July 13 in Las Vegas, but two days before that date, Alimkhanuly fainted while trying to make

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderOct 1, 2024, 12:47 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 Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn’s defamation lawsuit against Jake Paul is proceeding

Oct 1, 2024, 03:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Former WBO welterweight champion Sandy Ryan has called for an immediate rematch against Mikaela Mayer after Ryan was attacked with a can of paint before their fight Friday. Ryan was leaving her New York hotel to travel to Madison Square Garden on Friday evening when a

Nick ParkinsonSep 28, 2024, 05:25 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Terri Harper produced a much-improved display to earn a unanimous points victory over Rhiannon Dixon for the WBO lightweight title and become a three-weight world champion on Saturday. Harper

Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterSep 28, 2024, 12:07 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions English boxer Sandy Ryan accused Mikaela Mayer, her opponent in a title bout Friday night in New York, of orchestrating a pre-fight stunt in which Ryan was

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderSep 27, 2024, 01:55 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 Devin Haney filed a lawsuit against Ryan Garcia on Friday in

Associated Press Sep 26, 2024, 08:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Former world champion Gennady Golovkin is taking a leading role in World Boxing, the group aiming to keep the sport on the Olympic program for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. World Boxing said on Thursday that Golovkin would chair an “Olympic

Timothy Bradley Jr.Sep 26, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Close Timothy Bradley Jr. is an ESPN’s boxing analyst, a two-division, five-time world champion and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Open Extended Reactions The term “passage” refers to transitioning from one state to another. In boxing, a fighter may evolve from being a

James Regan Sep 26, 2024, 05:11 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A heated back and forth before a bout is every promoter’s dream, particularly if there’s history between the fighters, someone has a point to prove or there’s a belt on the line. In the case of Sandy Ryan and Mikaela Mayer, it’s all of

James Regan Sep 25, 2024, 12:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LONDON — Chris Eubank Jr. unleashed a host of scathing criticisms on various boxing promoters on Wednesday at the Artur Beterbiev vs. Dmitry Bivol prefight news conference, labelling them “scumbags.” Beterbiev and Bivol will fight on Oct. 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the

Sep 25, 2024, 07:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions This weekend belongs to women’s boxing. Three title fights divided in three boxing cards will take place in New York, Georgia and Sheffield, England. On Friday at The Theater inside Madison Square Garden, Sandy Ryan will make the first defense of her WBO welterweight title against