Boxing

Caleb Plant celebrates a vicious knockout of Anthony Dirrell. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images) Boxers very often are given too much credit before they’ve really proven their skills. They run off a couple of victories in a row over second-rate competition and they’re often hailed as the second coming. The opposite has been the case

David Benavidez feels he is set to give his best performance Saturday when he meets Caleb Plant at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for the interim WBC super middleweight championship. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/The Associated Press) David Benavidez was still three months shy of his 21st birthday when he won his first world title. He’s

Tokyo Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain made a winning start to her campaign as she and Sakshi Chaudhary moved to the quarterfinals of the Women’s World Championships with dominant victories in New Delhi on Monday. Both Sakshi (54kg) and Lovlina (75kg) notched identical 5-0 unanimous decision wins respectively. While Lovlina out-punched Mexico’s Vanessa Ortiz, Sakshi

Getty Images 2023 has been a great year for boxing, with a Fight of the Year list that has grown seemingly every weekend. But alongside the heaps of all-action battles, there have been some big-time knockouts. From championship-winning shots to lesser-known fighters making a name with serious one-shot power, there have been plenty of knockouts

Mar 14, 2023 Mike CoppingerESPN Manny Pacquiao, who announced his retirement in August 2021, plans to fight again, MP Promotions President Sean Gibbons told ESPN on Tuesday. Pacquiao, who turned 44 in December, is engaged in talks for a welterweight fight against U.K. star Conor Benn, Gibbons said. That fight is being eyed for June

Canelo Alvarez will fight at home once again. (Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports) Canelo Alvarez is scheduled to defend his undisputed super middleweight championship on May 6 against interim WBO champion John Ryder in his native Guadalajara, Mexico. The fight will mark Alvarez’ first match there since stopping Ryan Rhodes. Five months later, he defeated Kermit

Showtime At the midway point of March, the year’s boxing calendar continues to come together. With that schedule filling up has finally come the confirmation that Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Ryan Garcia will meet on April 22. Though that is not the only massive fight set for the first half of the year. Davis announced

Racing against time to get fit, six-time world champion boxer MC Mary Kom is targeting the Asian Games as her swansong in the ring before she is “forced” to retire next year. The veteran pugilist, who had torn her anterior cruciate ligament after twisting her left knee during the Commonwealth Games selection trials last year,

9:33 AM ET Following the big fights to start the year, the boxing schedule has plenty of storylines to follow this spring, including, most recently, Tim Tszyu’s knockout win over Tony Harrison for the interim WBO junior middleweight title. After the big win, how would Tszyu match up with undisputed junior middleweight champ Jermell Charlo?

Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Ryan Garcia face off at a news conference Thursday in New York to kick off promotion of their April 22 fight in Las Vegas. (Amanda Westcott/Showtime) Calvin Ford, the trainer of unbeaten Gervonta “Tank” Davis, didn’t have much to say at Wednesday’s kickoff news conference in New York designed to promote

Tim Tszyu, the son of Hall of Famer Kostya Tszyu, learned about the inner workings of boxing by being in a boxing family. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images) On Nov. 3, 2001, Kostya Tszyu delivered what may have been the greatest performance of his Hall of Fame boxing career when he knocked out Zab Judah

Mar 7, 2023 Timothy Bradley Jr. In his first fight against a “real boxer,” Jake Paul failed to emerge victorious, falling by split-decision loss to Tommy Fury on Feb. 26 in Saudi Arabia. After building his record to 6-0 with victories over a fellow YouTuber, a former NBA player and three former UFC fighters, critics

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

Getty Images Naoya Inoue has his next title fight set. The long rumored and discussed matchup with Stephen Fulton Jr. is now official as the two will meet on Sunday, May 7 in Yokohama, Japan, Top Rank Boxing announced. Inoue, who achieved undisputed status at bantamweight, will move up to 122 pounds in pursuit of

File image of Nikhat Zareen© Twitter Nikhat Zareen, who is all set to spearhead India’s campaign in the forthcoming IBA Women’s Boxing world championship in Delhi, has exuded confidence about her chances. The Commonwealth Games gold medalist stated that she is confident going into the IBA Women’s Boxing world championship and will try to bring

Japan’s Naoya Inoue will fight for two world titles in his super-bantamweight debut when he takes on American Stephen Fulton in Yokohama in May, the boxer nicknamed “Monster” said Monday. The unbeaten Inoue became the first undisputed world bantamweight champion in half a century when he beat England’s Paul Butler in December to add the

Showtime 2023 has already been a tremendous year for action fights inside the boxing ring. Brandon Figueroa figures he’ll add to the fast-growing list of Fight of the Year contenders on Saturday when he clashes with Mark Magsayo for the interim WBC featherweight championship (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET). “This could be another Fight of the

Mar 2, 2023 Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show There has been a significant shift in the schedule and plans for once-undisputed junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor. After progress in negotiations and multiple