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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

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