Boxing

Pay-per-view sales are, just like elections, all about name recognition. If a promoter is trying to sell a fight, it’s all about whether the public recognizes the fighters involved. Name recognition, or lack thereof, may explain why the second fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder on Feb. 22, 2020, did fewer than expected pay-per-view

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

1:38 AM ET Multiple Contributors It was a wildly busy night in the world of boxing, even with the postponement of the pay-per-view card centered around unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez and George Kambosos. IBF and WBA bantamweight world champion Naoya Inoue reminded the world of the otherworldy power he possesses at 118 pounds with

Japan’s Naoya Inoue knocked Michael Dasmarinas down three times in three rounds to easily retain his WBA and IBF belts in a bantamweight world title bout on Saturday night. Inoue knocked the challenger down once in the second and then twice in the third, forcing the referee to halt the onslaught at the Virgin Hotels

WBA/IBF bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue has his arm raised after stopping Michael Dasmarinas in the third round of their title fight at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas on June 19, 2021 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images) A superstar is developing in front of our eyes, and he’s doing it with some of the

Jermall Charlo and Juan Macias Montiel exchange punches during their WBC middleweight title fight at Toyota Center on June 19, 2021 in Houston. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) For most of the second half of his defense of his WBC middleweight title against Juan Macias Montiel on Saturday at the Toyota Center in Houston, Jermall

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Showtime Jermall Charlo hasn’t struggled much in his 31 trips to the ring as a professional. Based on the odds for Charlo’s fight with Juan Macias Montiel on Saturday (9 p.m. ET, Showtime), Charlo is expected to keep his undefeated record in front of a hometown crowd at Toyota Center in Houston. Charlo is the

Jermall Charlo sits in one of the strangest spots in all of boxing. He’s an unbeaten world champion with a 71 percent knockout ratio and a 9-0 mark in world title bouts. Yet, not only does he not have any of the game’s biggest stars clamoring to meet him, his name is rarely mentioned by

8:06 AM ET MIKAELA MAYER WAS backstage at a concert in Colorado waiting for her friend. It was 2018, before Mayer had become a world champion, before she started to become more of a face of women’s boxing. A man approached her and her best friend, Ginny Fuchs, also a fighter, and started offering boxing

LAS VEGAS — Bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue spent a little more than 10 minutes Monday chatting with a reporter, but said no more than ex-heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder did Tuesday when he left a news conference with Tyson Fury in Los Angeles without taking questions. But fans are excited not to hear Inoue speak; it’s

LAS VEGAS — Chan Sung Jung was 9-1 and well on the road to MMA stardom before Dan Ige finished high school in Hawaii. Though Ige himself has become an MMA star, he still geeks out a bit about getting to fight Jung, aka “The Korean Zombie,” in Saturday’s UFC main event at Apex (7

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

World champion Tyson Fury is promising to deliver a swift victory over Deontay Wilder next month when the two heavyweights resume their rivalry in a blockbuster trilogy fight in Las Vegas. Fury, the undefeated World Boxing Council champion, came face-to-face with a stony-faced Wilder at a Los Angeles press conference on Tuesday to hype the

For nearly six minutes, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder stood ramrod straight, staring into each other’s eyes. The current and former WBC heavyweight champion appeared at a news conference Tuesday in Los Angeles to promote the third bout between them, which will be July 24 in Las Vegas. Wilder chose not to answer questions, letting

By Rory Carroll LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury vowed to run Deontay Wilder down while the challenger said blood will be shed as the fighters came face-to-face in an odd press conference ahead of their July 24 trilogy fight in Las Vegas. Fury (30-0-1) first fought former long-time heavyweight champion Wilder

You have to deep pockets to take a shot at the boxing board on Saturday. Given that Mikaela Mayer is -4000 to win her fight and that both Jermall Charlo and Naoya Inoue are -3300 to win theirs, you’re going to have to bet a lot to win a little. With Teofimo Lopez’s bout in

7:51 AM ET Editor’s note: The Teofimo Lopez-George Kambosos Jr. lightweight title fight, and Franchon Crews-Dezurn’s super middleweight unification fight against Elin Cederroos were originally on this list before that card was postponed due to Lopez testing positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. Multiple title fights. Famous names in exhibitions. A bunch of younger fighters in