Boxing

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

Asian Games-bound woman pugilist Nikhat Zareen says she has evolved as a “technical boxer” after analysing her past performances over the years. Nikhat, a part of the TOPS development team, is looking forward to an impressive show at the elite Women’s World Boxing Championship in Turkey, scheduled from May 6 to 21. A total of

Getty Images Boxing continues to deliver some massive moments and fights in 2022. The first three months of the year have seen some incredible action and valiant returns to the ring, but the upcoming stretch of fights this spring may rival any stretch in recent history. Things continued to heat up in April with Errol

7:00 AM ET 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 In front of approximately 200 people, Dillian Whyte had his arm raised in victory. Inside the Chadwell St Mary Working Men’s Club, just 40

It is less than five days before he walks to the ring at Wembley Stadium in London to defend his titles against Dillian Whyte and heavyweight champion Tyson Fury still has not disassociated himself from alleged mobster Daniel Kinahan. Promoter Frank Warren told the BBC Monday that Kinahan, whom the U.S. government contends runs one

If Al Haymon, Tom Brown, Stephen Espinoza and whoever else may be involved in the negotiations to put Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford in the ring against each other in their next bouts screw this up, may they be damned to watching “Ishtar” for the next 20 years with only limited bathroom breaks. This

Premier Boxing Champions A massive welterweight unification bout is finally set. Three of the four recognized titles at 147 pounds will be at stake when IBF and WBC champion Errol Spence Jr. takes on WBA titleholder Yordenis Ugas in the main event from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on April 16. The action all goes

7:45 AM ET Ismael Salas remembers the first time Yordenis Ugas caught his eye. Just three weeks after Ugas started training with Salas, he had a sparring session with Gabriel Rosado, one of boxing’s top action fighters. Until that moment six years ago, Salas had never seen Ugas, who was in the midst of an

Perspective is something that, sadly, not a lot of elite boxers possess. They make money by the boatloads, sometimes enough in a couple of fights to match the GDP of a few small countries. There’s always a but, though, and yes, sadly, there is a but with Errol Spence Jr. He’s held a version of