Boxing

LAS VEGAS — The one-time NFL coach Bum Phillips once said, “You fail all the time, but you aren’t a failure until you start blaming someone else.” Phillips last coached the New Orleans Saints in 1985, and he died at 90 in 2013, so I doubt he was talking about former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay

USATSI It’s nearly time to settle the score. After multiple delays and issues, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder will step into the ring inside the T-Mobile Arena on Oct. 9 to hopefully close their trilogy. The two were set to meet in July, but Fury and his camp contracted COVID-19 just two weeks before the

Sep 29, 2021 Tyson Fury will defend the WBC heavyweight championship against Deontay Wilder on Oct. 9 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (9 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV). Their third fight is almost three years in the making, and along the way, their teams, other fighters and the legal system have all played a part.

Three months after a resounding success promoting a Mike Tyson exhibition match with Roy Jones Jr., Triller Fight Club rocked the boxing world on Feb. 26 when it won the right to promote a Teofimo Lopez undisputed lightweight title defense with an astoundingly high bid of $6.018 million. On Saturday, nearly $10 million in the

Getty Images The saga to put unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez Jr. and mandatory title challenger George Kambosos Jr. in the ring together has contained more twists and turns than any writer in Hollywood would dare include in a film script. Now, after being asked to push the date of the fight yet again, Kambosos

10:00 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 Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao announced his retirement at age 42 to end a 26-year boxing career that saw him win world titles in an

We knew in August that it was over for Manny Pacquiao when he lost to Yordenis Ugas for the welterweight title. Ugas is a good fighter, but nowhere near Pacquiao’s caliber at the Filipino’s peak. Ugas is a guy who would have been pesky for a while before Pacquiao figured him out and stopped him

Philippine boxing legend and 2022 presidential hopeful Manny Pacquiao said on Wednesday that he is hanging up his gloves after a glittering decades-long career in the ring. The eight-division world champion and senator, who has his sights set on a high-stakes rumble to replace President Rodrigo Duterte, said quitting the sport that had lifted him

It took nearly a month, but Tyron Woodley has his promised “I love Jake Paul” tattoo.  Whether that means a rematch will happen between the former UFC welterweight champion and YouTube star turned boxer is now up to Paul. Woodley posted a picture of his new ink through Twitter on Monday. It indeed reads “I

Spectators will be allowed at next month’s men’s world boxing championships in Serbia, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced on Monday, making it the first major event in the sport to welcome back fans since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The AIBA, in a statement, said that tickets have gone on sale for the

There have been so many comparisons between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury through the years, because they’re both giant-sized men from the United Kingdom with a special skill in beating people up. But beyond their personalities — Fury is often outrageous and prone to wild mood swings, while Joshua is consistent and reserved — there

Oleksandr Usyk ended Anthony Joshua’s reign as world heavyweight champion in front of the Londoner’s home crowd with a stunning unanimous points decision victory on Saturday, scuppering hopes of a ‘Battle of Britain’ unification bout with fellow world title-holder Tyson Fury. Joshua ended the 12th and final round of the contest backed up on the

Getty Images Two of the best active boxers, pound for pound, meet when Anthony Joshua of Great Britain faces Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine in a scheduled 12-round bout on Saturday. It will be for the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight championship. Both fighters are coming off impressive showings. Joshua, rated the seventh-best boxer,

4:26 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Teofimo Lopez has signed a contract to allow Triller to move his lightweight championship fight with George Kambosos from Monday, Oct. 4, at New York’s Hulu Theater at MSG, to Saturday Oct. 16, at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Triller’s Ryan Kavanaugh and Teofimo Lopez Sr., the fighter’s father and trainer, both

Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has made incredible strides with his English in the past year or so. He regularly does interviews in English now and only uses his interpreter on rare occasions. But his inability to understand a curse word — motherf***er — hurled at him in his second language led to a brief scuffle in

Fight promotions are littered with obviously staged conflicts to ramp up interest.  This does not look like that.  Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant met face-to-face in a news conference on Tuesday to promote their Nov. 6 unification fight for the super middleweight championship. Things got violent.  The two exchanged some not-safe-for-work language as they faced

Getty Images Boxing continues to roll on in 2021. After a rough 2020 that saw many stars either not compete or compete just once, the new year has seen a handful of fighters already seen ring time with big success. Look no further than the pound for pound king himself, Canelo Alvarez. The Mexican superstar

Day 3 of the men’s National Boxing Championships saw lots of ups and downs.© Twitter Five-time Asian medallist Shiva Thapa (63.5kg) moved into the pre-quarterfinals with a knockout victory but former world championship bronze-winner Gaurav Bidhuri (57kg) exited after an opening round loss in the men’s National Boxing Championships on Friday. Representing Assam, Thapa knocked