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No one took responsibility for the two-minute rounds and 14-ounce gloves that will be used for the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight when those modified rules were announced Monday. Now Paul is pinning it on Tyson. “Yep, all his rules,’’ Paul said on his weekly podcast published Thursday. “I agreed to all his rules.’’ Not true,

Yashwardhan Singh after win© BFI Astana (Kazakhstan): Indian boxers Aryan, Yashwardhan Singh, Priyanshu and Sahil marched into semifinals with confident wins at the Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024 in Astana on Wednesday. Aryan gave India a perfect start with a 5-0 unanimous decision win against Uzbekistan’s Juraev Shakarboy in the 51kg category. His

Andreas Hale, ESPNApr 29, 2024, 10:55 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The July 20 bout between YouTuber-turned-prizefighter Jake Paul and former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will be classified as a sanctioned, professional fight by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations. The heavyweight showdown will be contested over eight, 2-minute rounds with each fighter

Getty Images Jake Paul’s July 20 clash with heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson is officially a licensed professional bout. Most Valuable Promotions confirmed Monday that the fight “will officially be a sanctioned, professional fight by Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations.” The bout between Paul, the 27-year-old social media influencer-turned-boxer, and Tyson, a 57-year-old former

“Iron” Mike Tyson is set to make his stunning return to boxing this summer in a fight against “The Problem Child” Jake Paul. The two have jawed, bickered, and posted training videos trying to intimidate their opponent for some time now. However, much about the fight is still unknown, or rather, unconfirmed. The rules, stipulations,

Devin Haney has called for a “fair” rematch against Ryan Garcia after suffering a decision loss to his fellow American, who missed weight by three pounds last week. Garcia dropped Haney three times before securing a majority-decision win in Brooklyn on Saturday (20 April), handing Haney his first professional loss but failing to take the

Getty Images Ryan Garcia’s upset win over Devin Haney this past Saturday shook the boxing world. It wasn’t just that Garcia beat a fighter who entered the ring as a pound-for-pound elite, but that Garcia had spent months exhibiting bizarre behavior, seemingly more concerned with drinking, partying and using his massive social media reach to

Apr 24, 2024, 08:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions In one of the most entertaining fights between two of boxing’s young stars this year, Ryan Garcia defeated Devin Haney by majority decision Saturday night at a packed Barclays Center in New York City. Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) entered the fight surrounded by controversy, erratic comments

Lovlina Borgohain is aware that fierce competition awaits her at the Paris Olympics but the ace Indian boxer is quietly confident of snaring a second successive Games medal, having found considerable success in her new category, which is also closer to her natural body weight. Following her bronze medal-winning feat at the Tokyo Olympics, Borgohain

Getty Images Apparently, Ryan Garcia pulled off the biggest heist in recent memory. Garcia outclassed Devin Haney on Saturday night to the tune of three knockdowns en route to the biggest win of his burgeoning career.  Garcia spent most of his training camp posting on social media with conspiracy theories and more unsettling content that

Mike Coppinger, ESPNApr 21, 2024, 03:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Ryan Garcia was laughed at, mocked and called a clown by Devin Haney. At no time during the lead-up to his fight with one of the pound-for-pound best was Garcia taken seriously. That is until the opening minute of Saturday’s fight,

Despite the victory, Garcia was ineligible to win Haney’s world title after weighting 3.2lb over the light-welterweight limit [Getty Images] American Ryan Garcia floored Devin Haney three times in a majority points win over his compatriot on a dramatic night in Brooklyn, New York. Garcia’s left hook was his greatest asset as the previously unbeaten

Getty Images For most of his career, the biggest knock on Ryan Garcia from many boxing fans was that he was more focused on his social media than on being a great boxer. Garcia was the product of a different generation, one of the few boxers to use social media to dramatically raise their profile

Deontay Wilder has just three defeats on his record, two against Tyson Fury and one to Joseph Parker [Getty Images] Deontay Wilder says he is “90%” sure a fight with Anthony Joshua will happen in the future. The American heavyweight faces Zhilei Zhang on 1 June, six months on from his shock defeat by Joseph

Nick ParkinsonApr 16, 2024, 08:58 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions It took years for rival promoters Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn to even speak to each other, but now they are working together to create boxing events, and on

Mike Coppinger, ESPNApr 14, 2024, 01:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Jared Anderson defeated Ryad Merhy on Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas, via unanimous decision in a 10-round heavyweight bout that produced boos from bell-to-bell for its lack of action. Two judges scored a shutout for Anderson, 100-90, while a third judge found one round

Ellie Scotney claimed her second world super-bantamweight title as she overpowered Segolene Lefebvre on a great night for British women’s boxing at Manchester Arena. Scotney added the WBO belt to her IBF title as she dominated her French opponent over 10 rounds, winning on the judges’ scorecards 99-91, 97-93, 96-94. The London-born fighter has now

World Championships silver medallist Amit Panghal has returned to the Indian squad, which saw wholesale changes for the final Olympic qualifying event, set to to be held in Bangkok from May 25 to June 2. After Indian boxers’ horrid run at the Olympic qualifiers in Italy last month, when not even one boxer could secure