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Nick ParkinsonDec 12, 2024, 05:14 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Natasha Jonas hoped to be enjoying retirement by now, but instead she goes into a world title unification fight on Saturday with unfinished business. Jonas delivered a career-best performance

Jaime Munguia faces Bruno Surace on Saturday. (Cris Esqueda/Golden Boy/Getty Images) The stakes have been raised for Jaime Munguia’s return on Saturday in Tijuana, Mexico. Representatives for the World Boxing Council (WBC) confirmed Wednesday at their 62nd annual convention that No. 2 super middleweight contender, Munguia, will be ordered to face the No. 1 contender,

Tyson Fury battles Oleksandr Usyk in a heavyweight world title rematch this month. The Gypsy King was handed a first defeat by the Ukrainian, who became the division’s first undisputed champion since Lennox Lewis in 2000. His reign as the undisputed champion did not last long, though, with Usyk opting to drop the IBF belt

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderDec 8, 2024, 01:47 AM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Emanuel Navarrete floored Oscar Valdez three times en route to a

Andres Ferrari, ESPN EditorDec 6, 2024, 07:37 AM ET Close Andres Ferrari is ESPN.com’s boxing and MMA editor. Open Extended Reactions Emanuel Navarrete puts his WBO junior lightweight world title on the line in a rematch against Oscar Valdez on Saturday at Footprint Center in Phoenix (ESPN/ESPN+, 10:30 p.m. ET, with prelims on ESPN+ at

Nathan Heaney will be formally inducted into the Stoke-on-Trent Sporting Hall of Fame in January [BBC] Mid-November marked a year since Stoke-on-Trent boxer Nathan Heaney beat Denzel Bentley to win the British Middleweight Championship. He recently announced his next fight would take place at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in February, and he has also been told

ESPN News Services Dec 3, 2024, 08:25 AM ET Israel Vazquez, Mexico’s three-time junior featherweight world champion, has died after a battle with cancer, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said Tuesday. He was 46. Known for his punching power and hand speed, Vazquez was one of Mexico’s most celebrated boxers and shared a rivalry with compatriot

Daniel Dubois will face Joseph Parker in Saudi Arabia on 22 February in the next defence of his IBF heavyweight world title. Dubois’s first title defence came in September, when he knocked out British rival Anthony Joshua inside five rounds at Wembley Stadium. The 27-year-old won the interim title by beating Filip Hrgovic and he

Nick ParkinsonNov 30, 2024, 06:50 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Galal Yafai proved he was more than ready for Sunny Edwards as he stormed to a sensational sixth-round stoppage win over the former world flyweight champion, who afterwards announced

You can listen to Sunny Edwards v Galal Yafai from 22:00 GMT on BBC Radio 5 Live on the BBC Sport website & app. [Getty Images] Sunny Edwards believes Saturday’s interim WBC flyweight contest against Galal Yafai is on another level due to the feud between the two families. The pair meet in Birmingham with

Taiwan sports chiefs said Wednesday that Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting had pulled out of a competition in Britain after her gender eligibility was questioned but organisers countered that she was not entered in the event. Lin, who along with Algerian boxer Imane Khelif was embroiled in a gender row at the Paris Olympics, was

Nov 27, 2024, 07:49 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Emanuel Navarrete will take on Oscar Valdez next week in a rematch of their August 2023 bout that ended in a one-sided decision victory for Navarrete. The fight on Dec. 7 (ESPN/ESPN+, 10:30 p.m. ET) will be contested for Navarrete’s WBO junior lightweight title. Navarrete (38-2-1,

Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions is once again not on the same page as Ryan Garcia. (Sam Hodde/Getty Images) Mere hours after the press conference launch for Ryan Garcia’s Dec. 30 exhibition match in Toyko with Rukiya Anpo, Garcia’s promoter, Golden Boy Promotions, has thrown the event into doubt. In a statement posted

Yoel Romero, 47, still doing what he does best. (Photo via Dirty Boxing Championship) Even at 47 years old, Yoel Romero under any rule set is a dangerous man. The Olympic silver medalist in boxing and three-time UFC title challenger was the surprise star attraction of Saturday’s debut of Dirty Boxing Championship, the new combat

Nov 22, 2024, 09:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Turkish light middleweight boxer Tugrulhan Erdemir has been banned for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for breaching anti-doping rules, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said on Friday. CAS had confirmed in July Erdemir’s provisional suspension, which had ruled him out of

Nov 21, 2024, 08:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano on Friday was another all-action fight that ended in a close unanimous decision in favor Taylor. Only one point separated the two fighters on each of the three judges’ scorecards (95-94, 95-94 and 95-94). Taylor (24-1, 6 KOs)

Derek Chisora could be one fight away from an unlikely title shot when he returns in 2025. (Zac Goodwin/PA Images via Getty Images) Two big-time bouts are being added to the boxing schedule for early 2025. Derek Chisora and Jarrell Miller, two heavyweights who rarely fail to entertain inside and outside of the ring, are

Jake Paul lands a hit against Mike Tyson during their bout on Friday. (Julio Cortez / Associated Press) Netflix looked for the silver lining in the technically flawed live stream of the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight on Friday. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming giant said 60 million households watched the bout between Paul, a fighter