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Canelo Alvarez dared to be great, but so did Dmitry Bivol. Bivol was surprisingly active, throwing far more punches than the Mexican superstar, and successfully retained his light heavyweight title in a shocking upset. Bivol won a unanimous decision Saturday at T-Mobile Arena Saturday, outworking, outlanding and outboxing Alvarez to retain his WBA championship. All

Indian men’s boxing team High Performance Director Santiago Nieva has stepped down from his role.© Twitter Indian men’s boxing team High Performance Director Santiago Nieva has stepped down from his role after serving for five years, the national federation said on Saturday. Nieva, who took charge of the national team in 2017, will take up

Getty Images Over the past seven years, in the immediate aftermath of former pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather’s retirement, boxing fans have become so accustomed to Canelo Alvarez daring to be great in terms of his matchmaking that his opponents can often get lumped together.   Alvarez (57-1-2, 39 KOs), whose lone pro defeat came against

LAS VEGAS — There are, as they say in the parlance, plenty of good seats still available for the WBA light heavyweight title fight on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena between Canelo Alvarez and Dmitry Bivol. That’s largely due to the lack of awareness Bivol has with the American fan base. Alvarez is one of the

7:49 AM ET Katie Taylor continues to lead the way in the ESPN women’s pound-for-pound rankings. But the battle for No. 2 continues after a great weekend of boxing. Taylor (21-0, 6 KOs) defeated Amanda Serrano (42-2-1, 30 KOs) by split decision in one of the best fights of the year. A back-and-forth battle in

LAS VEGAS — The script in nearly every Canelo Alvarez fight over the last several years is identical: He launches a withering body assault early in the fight. His opponent, fighting the biggest fight of his life, battles back hard. Eventually, the body shots begin to take their toll and Alvarez then targets the head.

LAS VEGAS — One of the things I guarantee will happen is if someone ever says a modern boxer would have been good in any era, a certain segment of the fan base will have a conniption and question your sanity. They’ll bring up a fighter from the 1930s that they never saw and insist

Getty Images The biggest fight in the history of women’s boxing is set to go down on Saturday night when undisputed lightweight champion Katie Taylor defends her four world titles against unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano. The showdown takes place at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the first time women have headlined a card from

7:00 AM ET Bob Arum at Top Rank headquarters in Las Vegas. Al Powers for ESPN ON THE SECOND FLOOR of the events center at Resorts World Las Vegas hotel and casino, Bob Arum takes small, careful steps. He moves slowly. His eyes look toward the floor with each step, as if the gravity of his

A bizarre series of social media call-outs and responses between UFC No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter Kamaru Usman and No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer Canelo Alvarez has taken yet another odd turn. The discussion began Wednesday when Usman’s manager Ali Abdelaziz, seemingly out of nowhere, called Alvarez “an absolute chicken” and accused him of fighting no-name boxers

The odds are astounding, at least on the surface. Shakur Stevenson is a -700 favorite to defeat Oscar Valdez on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden in their super featherweight unification bout. Valdez is an unbeaten world champion with a 77% knockout ratio, and the odds would suggest he’s little more than a tune-up. At

Tyson Fury retained his WBC heavyweight crown on Saturday, stopping Dillian Whyte in round six of an all-British bout at a delirious Wembley Stadium before repeating his suggestion that he would now retire. The win for the self-styled ‘Gypsy King’, fighting on UK soil for the first time in four years, was witnessed by 94,000

This version of Tyson Fury, the guy who knocked out Deontay Wilder twice and put Dillian Whyte to sleep Saturday with one of the best uppercuts you’ll ever see, would be a difficult out for any fighter in boxing history. Yes, that includes Muhammad Ali. And George Foreman. And Larry Holmes and Lennox Lewis and

7:32 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LONDON — Tyson Fury remained on top of the heavyweight division, if not the sport, with a picture-perfect right uppercut that sent Dillian Whyte crashing to the mat for a sixth-round TKO victory on Saturday before 94,000-plus at Wembley Stadium. The obvious next fight for Fury is a matchup with

Getty Images Tyson Fury may have just competed in his last professional boxing match. Fury outclassed Dillian Whyte for five full rounds before putting away the challenger in what may have marked the final reign of “The Gypsy King” with a sixth-round TKO. Fury teased that he would retire after Saturday’s fight while many critics

The incident took place on the flight from San Francisco to Miami. Mike Tyson punched a fellow passenger aboard a JetBlue flight because the “aggressive” man threw a bottle at him, the boxer’s representatives have said in a statement. The former heavyweight champion was caught pummeling the man on Wednesday night on a flight from

The first instinct upon hearing Tyson Fury say that he plans to retire after Saturday’s defense of his WBC and lineal heavyweight titles against Dillian Whyte at Wembley Stadium in London was to laugh and say, “Yeah, right.” I’ve heard it all before, and you have, too, if you’ve ever paid even a modicum of

Mike Tyson is a former heavyweight boxing champion.© AFP Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson repeatedly punched a passenger on a plane about to fly out of San Francisco after reportedly becoming irritated by the man’s attempts to talk to him. Cell phone footage showed Tyson leaning over the back of his seat and delivering