Boxing

Barring any unexpected late snags, Ryan Garcia (above with trainer Joe Goossen) will fight Gervonta Davis on April 15 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Tom Hogan/Golden Boy Promotions via Getty Images) On Nov. 17, both Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia took to social media to announce that they’d agreed to fight each other in what

Jan 13, 2023 It was the first major women’s fight of 2023 — and by the end of the year, it might be remembered as one of the best, too. Jessica Nery Plata, who entered the fight as the WBA junior flyweight champion, left the ring as the unified champion after beating WBC titleholder Kim

Gerrie Coetzee (left), who defeated Michael Dokes in 1983 for the WBA heavyweight title, died Thursday in South Africa at 67. (Photo by Getty Images) Gerrie Coetzee, a hard-punching South African who won a share of the heavyweight championship in 1983 when he knocked out Michael “Dynamite” Dokes, died Thursday following a short battle with

Getty Images Boxing is set to kick off 2023 with high hopes for some epic showdowns. Many think this is finally the year that we see some of the most highly anticipated matchups of this era, which includes unification bouts at welterweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. But even beyond those matchups, there are other clashes

Gervonta Davis celebrates after defeating Hector Luis Garcia at Capital One Arena on Jan. 7, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) There are always a lot of complaints surrounding the business of boxing, and on Saturday’s Showtime Pay-Per-View card in Washington, D.C., there was another glaring example of the type of things

5:15 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Errol Spence Jr.’s next fight won’t come against Terence Crawford, and it won’t even take place for Spence’s three welterweight titles. Instead, Spence will meet Keith Thurman in a junior middleweight bout that’s expected to take place in April, sources told ESPN. A matchup between Spence and Thurman was highly

Getty Images After a somewhat cool close to 202 where many of boxing’s top stars featured their talents in stay-busy fights, the New Year begins with hopes of some of the top stars facing off against other top opposition over the next 12 months. At least one fighter cleared his initial hurdle toward the biggest

Gervonta Davis handed Hector Garcia the first loss of his career Saturday at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) Hector Garcia fought Gervonta Davis about as well as anyone has fought him and he didn’t come close to winning. Davis, like he often does, started extremely slow against Garcia

Jaron Ennis punches Karen Chukhadzhian in their Interim IBF Welterweight Championship bout at Capital One Arena on January 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) It was hardly the performance Jaron Ennis was looking for on Saturday when he met Ukrainian Karen Chukhadzhian for the interim IBF welterweight title at the Capital

Showtime Over the past handful of years, Gervonta “Tank” Davis has become one of boxing’s biggest attractions and most exciting fighters. On Saturday night, Davis returns to the ring to face Hector Luis Garcia with a huge April bout against Ryan Garcia waiting for him with a win. Garcia, a champion at super featherweight, is

Gervonta Davis improved his record to 28-0 with a TKO of Hector Garcia on Saturday in Washington D.C. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) The first pay-per-view of 2023 featured undefeated Gervonta Davis against unheralded and unbeaten Hector Garcia at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. Davis once again proved he is one of the world’s

Showtime Of all the various pre-fight narratives entering Saturday’s Showtime pay-per-view card in Washington, D.C, headlined by the return of Gervonta “Tank” Davis, few have been able to find airspace following the power-punching star’s arrest for misdemeanor domestic battery just one week out from the fight.  Davis (27-0, 25 KOs), who is set to face

Jan 3, 2023 At long last, four years after their second bout, archrivals Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin met for a third time, but the September trilogy fight fell far short of the first two battles. It’s no surprise, of course, after boxing failed to deliver this matchup when both fighters were at their peak.

After winning gold medals in the Women’s World Boxing Championship in Turkey and Birmingham Commonwealth Games last year, Indian pugilist Nikhat Zareen’s next target is a medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Nizamabad (Telangana)-born boxer is only the fifth Indian woman to secure a gold medal at the World Boxing Championships after record six-time champion

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

Gervonta Davis has seen a litany of legal issues over the last few years, including one that still threatens him with years of jail time. (Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The mother of boxer Gervonta Davis’ daughter posted a statement Friday saying he did not hurt her after his arrest for

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