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CBS Sports Illustration There was plenty of great action in the boxing ring in 2022. Along with great fights, there were many impressive performances from some of the best fighters in the sport. Among those great performances was a fighter knocking off the sport’s pound-for-pound king, a 22-year-old becoming boxing’s youngest active world champion and

Boxer Gervonta Davis was arrested on Tuesday afternoon after he allegedly struck a woman in the head in Parkland, Florida, according to ESPN’s Mike Coppinger. Davis was arrested just before 3 p.m. on Tuesday after he allegedly hit a woman in the side of her head with a “closed hand type slap.” The woman reportedly

File photo of Nikhat Zareen© Twitter Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain and reigning world champion Nikhat Zareen registered contrasting wins to clinch gold, while Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) lifted the team trophy with 10 medals at the Elite Women’s National Boxing Championships here on Monday. Assam’s Lovlina beat Arundhati Choudhary of the Services

Premier Boxing Champions The undisputed junior middleweight champion is on the mend. Jermell Charlo, holder of the WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF titles at 154 pounds, is expected to be sidelined at least two months after suffering a broken hand during a training session this week for his upcoming matchup with Tim Tszyu, which was

Dec 24, 2022 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

Dmitry Bivol (L) defeated Canelo Alvarez as part of a 2-0 year and is the Yahoo Sports male Fighter of the Year in boxing for 2022. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) To some, the race for boxing’s male Fighter of the Year ended on May 7 when Dmitry Bivol was announced as a unanimous decision

Katie Taylor versus Amanda Serrano made history as the first women’s boxing fight to headline Madison Square Garden in the venue’s history. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images) Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano received such a huge buildup for their April 30 bout in New York for the undisputed lightweight title that it was almost impossible

Dec 19, 2022 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

With a strong right jab to the face of her opponent, Elianni Garcia Polledo on Saturday won the first official women’s boxing match in sports-crazed Cuba. “It is a historic result for Cuban boxing,” said one of the judges over the loudspeaker when announcing the “unanimous” decision for Garcia, from Havana province, over Reynabell Grant,

Showtime Too often in boxing, fans are left to watch young, talented boxers take soft-touch fights, avoiding risks until the opportunity to fight for a title presents itself. That is not the case on Saturday as two undefeated lightweights go one-on-one in the biggest fight of their careers when Frank Martin battles Michel Rivera (10

CBS Sports Illustration Despite how crowded the top of boxing’s pound-for-pound rankings have been in recent years, with everyone from Canelo Alvarez and Vasiliy Lomachenko to Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford securing the top spot at various times, Japan’s Naoya Inoue continues to separate himself from the pack. The three-division champion became the first

Ace boxer Mary Kom’s husband Onler Karong has sparked a controversy after he expressed dissatisfaction over the looks of a statue of her wife, which was recently erected at a park in Manipur. Nineteen statues of the state’s Olympians, including that of Mary Kom, were recently installed at Manipur Olympic Park. Onler Karong, in an

The UFC gives us one more Saturday night of fights before it breaks for the holidays and gears up for 2023. Two hard-hitting middleweights, Sean Strickland and Jared Cannonier, headline UFC Vegas 66. Despite ranking third in the division and four spots higher than Strickland, Cannonier enters this bout as a slight (-105) underdog. Both

Dec 13, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN Naoya Inoue, ESPN’s No. 2 pound-for-pound boxer, has proved peerless through 24 fights as he cruised to another inside-the-distance victory on Tuesday in Tokyo. Paul Butler was no match. He really wasn’t ever expected to be. The Englishman was simply there to hand over his WBO belt to Inoue, who

Add undisputed champion to Naoya Inoue’s long list of accomplishments. The Japanese knockout artist stopped reluctant fellow 118-pound titleholder Paul Butler to win all four major belts Tuesday at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, becoming the first bantamweight and first Japanese fighter of any weight to do so. “It’s been a long journey but … I finally

Plan your fight nights ahead with our UFC fight schedule. Included below are all of the UFC’s upcoming Fight Night cards and pay-per-events with announced bouts. We’ll also include any odds that are posted at BetMGM. Check back often as this list will be updated as new fights are scheduled. Here are the major scheduled

2:31 AM ET Several major cards took place on Saturday, including a welterweight title defense for Terence Crawford, a homecoming for Teofimo Lopez and an upset loss for Josh Warrington. Mike Coppinger, Ben Baby and Nick Parkinson react to the action and try to make sense of three unique cards around the world. Well, here

Getty Images A loaded night of boxing was capped off with two of the sport’s most explosive fighters in dueling main events. Both Terence Crawford and Teofimo Lopez picked up wins, but wins of a very different nature. Crawford defended his WBO welterweight title against David Avanesyan in Omaha, and as a hard-fought first half