Boxing

8:14 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Gervonta Davis allegedly struck a woman on the right side of her head with a “closed hand type slap,” leading to his arrest this week in Florida, according to a Broward County Sheriff’s Office incident report. According to the incident report, the woman, who doesn’t live with Davis and whose

5:59 AM ET SAITAMA, Japan — Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring again in 2023. The boxing legend announced Saturday that he has a deal in place with Japan’s Rizin Fighting Federation to compete next year. Pacquiao made the announcement in the ring during Rizin’s New Year’s Eve card at Saitama Super Arena outside

8:54 PM ET The woman who called police to report boxer Gervonta Davis in a domestic violence incident earlier this week said Friday that Davis “did not harm me or our daughter.” The woman, whose identity was confirmed to ESPN by her attorney, released a statement on her Instagram account Friday, saying in part that

7:46 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN With the boxing calendar coming to a close, many of the most anticipated fights this year collapsed during negotiations. There were failed talks to match Tyson Fury with Anthony Joshua, and Errol Spence Jr. with Terence Crawford. The lack of activity for most of the top fighters in the sport

7:14 PM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN The World Boxing Council plans to introduce a category for transgender fighters in 2023, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman told a London newspaper Thursday. The measure is being undertaken, Sulaiman told The Telegraph, “because of safety and inclusion” and to ensure that “a man fighting a woman will never happen.” WBC

4:06 PM ET Alycia Baumgardner’s first defense of her WBC, IBF and WBO titles will come against Elhem Mekhaled as the co-feature on the Amanda Serrano-Erika Cruz card on Feb. 4 in New York City, a source confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. The Baumgardner-Mekhaled fight will be for the undisputed junior lightweight title. WBA champion

3:31 PM ET An undisputed featherweight title fight between IBF, WBC and WBO featherweight titleholder Amanda Serrano and WBA champion Erika Cruz is imminent, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The fight will headline a card on Feb. 4 at the Hulu Theater in New York City. If Serrano wins, it will be the first time

12:43 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Gervonta Davis allegedly struck a woman on the right side of her head with a “closed hand type slap,” leading to his arrest Tuesday afternoon in Florida, according to a Broward County Sheriff’s Office incident report. According to the incident report, the woman, who doesn’t live with Davis and whose

8:00 AM ET Claressa Shields remains atop the ESPN women’s pound-for-pound rankings, with Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano keeping their spots behind her. But then the list changes. Junior lightweight unified champion Alycia Baumgardner moves up one spot to No. 4 after her victory over Mikaela Mayer, while Mayer goes from No. 6 to No.

2:45 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Boxer Gervonta Davis was arrested Tuesday in Parkland, Florida, and jailed on a domestic violence charge of battery causing bodily harm, according to Broward County Sheriff’s Office records. Davis remains in custody at Broward County’s Main Jail Bureau in Fort Lauderdale and is scheduled to appear at a court hearing

5:32 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Rey Vargas and O’Shaquie Foster will meet for the WBC vacant junior lightweight title on Feb. 11 at The Alamodome in San Antonio, sources tell ESPN. Subriel Matias and Jeremias Ponce will vie for the vacant IBF junior welterweight title on the PBC on the Showtime undercard, sources said. Vargas

5:33 AM ET They’ll move up and down weight classes, searching for the best possible opponent who can give them the most cachet in terms of financial gains, prestige and overall challenge. Welcome to the world of women’s boxing, where the best fight the best, where title fights are a weekly occurrence and unification bouts

8:00 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jermell Charlo suffered a broken left hand, and his Jan. 28 undisputed junior middleweight title fight against Tim Tszyu has been postponed, Charlo announced Saturday. The fight for Charlo’s four 154-pound titles, which was set to take place in Las Vegas, will be rescheduled. “I was sparring and I threw

7:52 AM ET For some fans, 2022 was one of the most underwhelming years of the century in boxing, with conversations about star-studded bouts leading to nothing. Others may view the sport as having considerable bright spots, like undisputed championship fights, upsets and the rebirth of women’s boxing. A few notable fighters had breakout years

2:05 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The Josh Taylor-Jack Catterall rematch for Taylor’s lineal and WBO junior welterweight championship has been rescheduled to March 4 in Glasgow, Scotland, sources told ESPN. The return bout between ESPN’s top two 140-pounders will take place at the same venue as the first meeting: the OVO Hydro. Taylor, who fights

7:58 AM ET Naoya Inoue became the undisputed bantamweight champion after earning an 11th-round KO victory on Dec. 13 in Tokyo. The win also earned him eight first-place votes from our ESPN’s pound-for pound 21-member panel, moving him closer to Terence Crawford at No. 1. In his other fight this year, Inoue scored a second-round

8:11 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jose Ramirez has passed up a title shot against Regis Prograis after the WBC set the purse split at 65-35 in favor of the junior welterweight champion, Ramirez told ESPN on Monday. Now, Ramirez (27-1, 17 KOs) is set to return March 25 in Fresno, California, in an ESPN/ESPN+ main

9:14 AM ET Katie Taylor paused and looked around before stepping into the ring. On the last day in April, a packed crowd at Madison Square Garden in New York awaited her arrival and chanted her name. A fighter from Ireland in the most iconic venue in boxing history, in the city where if you