Boxing

8:41 PM ET Associated Press VERONA, N.Y. — Reduced to tears at a banquet on the eve of his big day, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Sunday, just a tinge of emotion in his voice as he accepted the honor. “I done a lot in my career,

“As an athlete I’m here to represent India. For me, Hindu-Muslim doesn’t matter. I’m not representing a community but my country,” world champion boxer Nikhat Zareen said on Monday when asked about people talking more about her religious background than her achievements. “I am happy to win a medal for my country,” the 25-year-old pugilist

Joe Tessitore (left) and Timothy Bradley (center) had an unfortunate moment on Saturday at Berlanga-Angulo. (Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images) Edgar Berlanga’s attempted bite wasn’t the only ugly moment of Saturday’s Top Rank card. ESPN broadcasters Joe Tessitore and Timothy Bradley found themselves issuing a quick apology after humorously discussing a

Edgar Berlanga’s career so far: 16 straight first-round KOs, four straight unanimous decisions, one attempted bite. (Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images) Edgar Berlanga, one of boxing’s fastest-rising stars, nearly went full Mike Tyson. The NABO super middleweight champion, who gained fame with a string of 16 consecutive first-round KO wins to

Getty Images Sometimes a red-hot start to a career can backfire on a fighter. In the case of Edgar Berlanga, starting his career off with 16 consecutive first-round knockouts set expectations that were always going to be hard to live up to. Now, he enters a fight with Roamer Alexis Angulo on Saturday (11 p.m.

Six-time world champion boxer MC Mary Kom has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury and will require a reconstructive surgery, scans revealed on Saturday. The veteran Indian boxer’s bid to compete at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games ended in a heartbreak here on Friday as she was forced to withdraw midway from the selection trials

Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain sealed their births in the Indians for the CWG.© PTI Reigning world champion Nikhat Zareen and Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain on Saturday sealed their berths in the Indian team for the Commonwealth Games with dominating wins in the selection trials. While Nikhat, the two-time Strandja Memorial gold medallist, blanked Haryana’s

The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports has released the cash award for boxers Manisha, Nikhat Zareen and Sonia Chahal for winning medals at the 2019 Asian Boxing Championship. The awards were released dated June 9th, 2022, according to a statement from the ministry. Boxer Sonia Chahal, who spoke to NDTV on June 9th and 10th, informed

Getty Images Oscar De La Hoya appears to be all-in on the highly anticipated fight between undefeated lightweights Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia. De La Hoya said he is prepared to make a fair, valuable deal to book a bad blood battle pitting Davis against Garcia. De La Hoya drew eyes over the weekend during

7:56 AM ET At long last, Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford are closer than ever to fighting for welterweight supremacy this fall, and unlike Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, this matchup is materializing while both are still in the prime of their careers. All four 147-pound titles would be on the line in the

There are three undisputed champions and nine unified champions across boxing’s 17 weight classes. None of those elite fighters is quite like the guy known by his fans as “The Monster.” Naoya Inoue defeated a surefire Hall of Famer in devastating fashion on Tuesday in Saitama, Japan, knocking Nonito Donaire down twice and stopping him

It was a coming out party of sorts for Naoya Inoue on Nov. 7, 2019. Inoue had been built up as some sort of boxing superhero with Tyson-like power and Mayweather-like boxing skills. He fought veteran Nonito Donaire on that night in Saitama, Japan, for the IBF-WBA bantamweight belts. Donaire was a measuring stick, of

Getty Images A rare pairing of undefeated champions squaring off for a unified title takes place Saturday as lightweight titleholders Devin Haney and George Kambosos Jr. meet in a 12-round boxing championship main event. Their showdown tops the main fight card (9 p.m. ET) from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. The 50,000-seat venue is expected

Winning a major world championship fight is a career highlight for most boxers. Doing it the way Joe Cordina did against Kenichi Ogawa Saturday in their bout for the IBF super featherweight title in his hometown in Cardiff, Wales, put it into the history books. Cordina viciously knocked Ogawa out in the second round with

7:51 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN MELBOURNE, Australia — Devin Haney isn’t merely presumed to be a transcendent talent. He’s a bright, sincere, impossibly likable (for a fighter, at least) 23-year-old who suddenly finds himself in hostile environs 8,000 miles from home. What’s more, he’s here without the father who not only raised him but painstakingly

George Kambosos is an underdog again but at this stage of his career, it should come as no surprise. The unified lightweight champion was a 6-1 underdog when he fought Teofimo Lopez last year, but won the title via a split decision. He’s now an underdog to Devin Haney when they meet on Saturday (Sunday

World Championship medallists Amit Panghal and Shiva Thapa claimed berths in the Indian boxing team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games after emerging victorious in the trials, held here on Thursday. While Panghal, the 2019 world championship silver medallist, secured his place in the 51kg division, Thapa clinched the 63.5kg spot in the trials held at

Devin Haney stole a page from the boxing playbook of the 1940s last December. Moments after successfully defending his WBC lightweight title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas against Joseph “JoJo” Diaz, Haney called out unified champion George Kambosos Jr. A week earlier, the virtually unknown Australian upset Teofimo Lopez to become the unified