Boxing

Claressa Shields has challenged Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano to fight her and settle the greatest woman fighter of all time debate. Shields, nicknamed the GWOAT and considered one of the world’s best boxers, male or female, aims to become a four-weight world champion on Saturday. The undefeated American steps up to 12st 7lb (175lb)

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJul 24, 2024, 05:43 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 Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s top star, is set to defend his super

Ryan Garner fights Archie Sharp on the undercard of Joe Joyce’s bout with Derek Chisora on Saturday [Getty Images] Super-featherweight Ryan Garner is facing the “biggest test” of his career this weekend when he fights the undefeated Archie Sharp at London’s O2 Arena. The 26-year-old boxer, nicknamed “The Piranha”, is also unbeaten with an impressive

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJul 21, 2024, 01:42 AM 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 Jake Paul scored a sixth-round TKO victory over bare-knuckle fighter Mike

Jake Paul will box Mike Perry tonight, as the YouTuber looks to stay sharp ahead of his delayed fight with Mike Tyson. Paul, 27, was due to box Tyson, 58, this evening, but the heavyweight legend suffered an ulcer flare-up on a flight in May. As a result of that health scare, Paul vs Tyson

Jul 18, 2024, 02:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ESPN’s No. 1 bantamweight Junto Nakatani steps in the ring for the second time this year to defend his WBC world title against Vincent Astrolabio in Tokyo on Saturday (ESPN+, 5 a.m. ET). Nakatani (27-0, 20 KOs), of Kanagawa, Japan, has won eight of his last

Mike Tyson has resumed training and is expected to return to the boxing gym at the end of the month, his agent told USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday. The former heavyweight champion had been recuperating from an ulcer flareup that postponed his fight with Jake Paul to Nov. 15 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Jul 15, 2024, 07:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The greatest athlete of the 21st century? That’s easy. It has to be Tom Brady, the quarterback of the greatest dynasty America’s favorite sport has ever seen, a seven-time Super Bowl champ and five-time Super Bowl MVP. Yep. Tom Brady. Except. Except it has to be

Jarron Ennis is now unbeaten in 32 fights [Getty Images] Rising US star Jaron Ennis was hailed as “the future of boxing” after a fifth-round stoppage of challenger David Avanesyan to retain his IBF world welterweight crown. Ennis, 27, was fighting for the first time in more than a year and took some shots from

Matchroom Boxing It’s easy to play a game of compare and contrast between young rising pound-for-pound fighters Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Shakur Stevenson. After Stevenson drew criticism for another “boring” performance this past weekend, Ennis will enter the ring on Saturday to face David Avanesyan looking to do the exact opposite. Like Stevenson, whose fight

Jul 11, 2024, 07:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A young fighter has been making noise in the last couple of years, taking over different weight classes and moving up the ranks. And with his performance against future Hall of Famer Juan Francisco Estrada on June 29, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez earned high praise from our

Nov 2, 2019; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Ryan Garcia (blue trunks) and Romero Duno (black trunks) box during their WBC silver and NABO lightweight title bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Garcia won via first round TKO. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Former interim WBC lightweight champion Ryan Garcia has been banned from professional

Oct 5, 2019; New York, NY, USA; Israil Madrimov (black trunks) and Alejandro Barrera (white trunks) box during their WBA Inter-Continental super welterweight title bout at Madison Square Garden. Madrimov won via fifth round TKO. Mandatory Credit: Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports 2024 has already offered some incredible boxing matches for fans to enjoy. Ray Ford’s

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJul 7, 2024, 02:35 AM 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 Shakur Stevenson captured Olympic silver at the 2016 Games in Rio

Bronze medallist at the Tokyo Olympic Games, woman boxer Lovlina Borgohain has expressed “confidence” in winning a gold medal in the upcoming Paris Olympics. Borgohain’s confidence is backed by a series of remarkable performances, including a gold medal at the 2023 World Boxing Championships and a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games. In a

Top Rank Boxing Whether it’s justified or not in boxing’s arbitrary court of public opinion, Shakur Stevenson enters the final bout of his Top Rank deal on Saturday without the same fanfare and hype he so recently held.  Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) returns to his hometown of Newark, New Jersey, to defend his WBC lightweight

Jul 4, 2024, 07:39 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Shakur Stevenson returns to the ring on Saturday to defend his WBC lightweight title against Artem Harutyunyan. The fight at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey (ESPN/ESPN+, 8:30 p.m. ET, with prelims on ESPN+ at 6:10 p.m. ET), will be the main event of a

USA’s Jennifer Lozano poses on the podium with her silver medal after the women’s 50kg finals boxing event of the Pan American Games Santiago 2023 at the Olympic Training Centre (CEO) in Santiago on October 27, 2023. (Photo by Pablo VERA / AFP) (Photo by PABLO VERA/AFP via Getty Images) Boxing is one of the