Boxing

There is boxing on your television or available streaming almost every weekend. Many times they’re good, intriguing and entertaining fights. But Terence Crawford versus Errol Spence wasn’t shaping up to be just another good, intriguing, entertaining fight. It was a generational fight between two of the three or five best fighters in the world. It

Getty Images Fans waiting to see WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford and IBF, WBC and WBA champion Errol Spence Jr. face off in a bout to crown an undisputed champion will have to continue waiting. Despite months of talk that Crawford and Spence were nearing a deal for a long-awaited fight, Crawford told ESPN that

Oct 21, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford were on the verge of a deal for an undisputed welterweight championship fight in November, but with talks stalled, and Crawford agreeing to a fight against David Avanesyan on Dec. 10, it’s unclear if they’ll ever meet in a ring, let alone next. Tyson

Tyson Fury will defend his world heavyweight title in an all-British trilogy fight against Derek Chisora in London on December 3 after the collapse of negotiations for a prospective showdown with Anthony Joshua. The bout against Chisora, whom Fury beat in 2011 and 2014, will take place at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and will be

Getty Images Jake Paul, for the first time in his professional boxing career, will exchange blows with a fighter boasting a winning boxing record. Paul is set to fight former UFC middleweight champion and all-time MMA great Anderson Silva on Saturday, Oct. 29, in a Showtime pay-per-view main event. Paul (5-0, 4 KO) is finally

Serhii Bohachuk celebrates a victory over Tyrone Brunson. (Courtesy 360 Promotions) When Serhii Bohachuk, a promising super welterweight prospect, left the United States where he trains for his boxing career, to return to his native Ukraine to renew his work visa, never did he expect the twists and turns his life would take. When he

Oct 16, 2022 Mike Coppinger Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Devin Haney showed once again this weekend why he deserves pound-for-pound consideration, while Deontay Wilder’s right hand was back in action, finishing Robert Helenius in Round

Deontay Wilder added KO No. 42 to his record with a vicious right hand Saturday in Brooklyn. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images) The history books are going to be kind — very kind — when Deontay Wilder finally decides to hang up his gloves and await the countdown to his induction into the International Boxing

Claressa Shields punches Savannah Marshall in their fight for the undisputed middleweight title Saturday in London. (Photo by James Chance/Getty Images) On the Chinese calendar, 2022 is the Year of the Tiger. In boxing, it’s the Year of the Woman. Women boxers have broken through the glass ceiling in a resounding way in 2022, and

USATSI Last October, following the conclusion of his violent knockout loss to Tyson Fury in their all-action heavyweight championship trilogy bout, Deontay Wilder believed in his heart he was 85% ready to retire.  Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs), with a career knockout percentage just over 91% and a reputation as possibly the greatest right-handed knockout threat

7:47 AM ET Deontay Wilder is not a big fan of roller coasters, but that didn’t stop him from enjoying a vacation to Universal Studios in Southern California following the epic trilogy that was his last fight against Tyson Fury. It was a group outing that featured his fiancée, Telli Swift, eight kids, a nanny

In the mid-1990s, Christy Martin led a surge of interest in women’s boxing. She was regularly appearing on the pay-per-view portion of Mike Tyson cards and was becoming a can’t-miss fighter. Martin was a legitimate talent and was deservedly inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame for her efforts earlier this year. But in

A year and a day ago, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder put on one of the great heavyweight title fights in recent memory. Wilder hasn’t fought since that memorable night in Las Vegas, when Fury won by 11th round stoppage in a classic battle that had more momentum shifts than a grandfather clock. But in

Showtime Sports Sebastian Fundora would stand taller than many boxers in the heavyweight division as he carries around that 6-foot-6 frame. Fundora is no heavyweight, however — he’s the current WBC interim junior middleweight champion and will put that belt on the line against Carlos Ocampo on Saturday night (Showtime, 10 p.m. ET). Despite towering

7:49 AM ET COACHELLA, Calif. — Two flags fly atop a pole in front of a single-story home in the Coachella Valley. The Fundora family chose to live here, in the shadows of mountains encasing the horizon in every direction, because of the familiarity it offers and the peacefulness they can find. Those flags —

Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao on Friday won a years-long court battle to avoid paying tens of millions of dollars in extra taxes after an appeals court dismissed the case against him. Pacquiao and his wife Jinkee had been accused by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in 2012 of owing more than 2.2 billion pesos

Sebastian Fundora has a two-inch height and reach advantage on Oleksandr Usyk, who holds the IBF-WBA-WBO heavyweight titles. Fundora, who is 24, holds the interim WBC super welterweight title. He’s been the biggest matchup problem in boxing for years now. On Saturday, when he meets Carlos Ocampo at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California,

Former bantamweight and featherweight champion Eder Jofre, being honored by the WBC at its 2019 convention in Cancun, Mexico, died Sunday at 86 in Brazil. (Photo courtesy of WBC) Eder Jofre, arguably the greatest Brazilian boxer whose skills and punching power helped land him in the International Boxing Hall of Fame, died Sunday in Brazil