Boxing

Getty Images In the past two years, NASCAR has seen a major infusion of new and famous blood into the ranks of the sport’s car owners. And just ahead of the 2022 season, one more new face has entered the ring: Hall of Fame professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. On Tuesday, Mayweather announced the launch

8:55 AM ET Women’s boxing has grown from a niche sport into something a bit larger in recent years. It became an Olympic sport in 2012. Women’s fights have headlined main event cards in big venues, and slowly, the top women’s boxers have started to seep into the consciousness of those who watch fights. Last

Top Rank and Queensbury Promotions jointly bid a record $40 million to win the right to promote a WBC heavyweight title fight between champion Tyson Fury and interim champion Dillian Whyte. Top Rank president Todd duBoef told Yahoo Sports the fight would be April 23 in the United Kingdom. Frank Warren of Queensbury Promotion said

Getty Images WBC champion Tyson Fury may only hold one of the four recognized world championships at heavyweight, but he’s universally accepted as the top man in the sport’s most prestigious division. With being “the man” comes a host of complications, however, and Fury’s immediate future is one loaded with possibilities and obscured by potential

2:12 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte will meet in the ring after all. There was an agreement in principle for both Whyte and Anthony Joshua to step aside and forego planned bouts with Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, respectively, in exchange for millions of dollars, but the deal fell apart after parties

LAS VEGAS — The news that the WBC delayed until Friday its purse bid for a mandatory heavyweight title fight between champion Tyson Fury and Dillian Whyte was probably seen by most as insignificant in the grand scheme of things. But that would be, oh, so wrong. This is a hugely significant development, particularly given

Johannesburg: Khalila Camacho Ali, former wife of legendary world boxing champion Muhammad Ali, has advised Muslim women to follow the principles laid down in Islam for how they should live and work, and not what she called “Hislam” which is a prejudiced point of view. Ali was speaking at an event hosted by the Spiritual Chords Foundation,

12:48 AM ET The longest active run by a male titleholder in boxing is over. Mark Magsayo upset Gary Russell Jr. by majority decision on Saturday night — 114-114, 115-113 and 115-113 — to claim the WBC featherweight title in Atlantic City, New Jersey, taking away Russell’s title after almost seven years with the WBC

Showtime Gary Russell Jr. is set to return to the ring and defend his WBC featherweight championship when he faces Mark Magsayo in the main event of Showtime Championship Boxing on Saturday night. It is Russell’s first fight in nearly two years. Inactivity has become something of a hallmark of Russell’s career. He has not

The days and weeks prior to UFC 263 were filled for Deiveson Figueiredo. There were the usual obligations of a UFC champion, interviews, personal appearances and the like, as well as training for a rematch with Brandon Moreno. But there was more, so much more. Figueiredo was still managing his gym in Souré, Brazil. His

It’s been easy in the past to get frustrated, or even angry, with Gary Russell Jr.  The WBC featherweight champion has long been one of the most gifted boxers in the world, but it often seems he fights less frequently than a solar eclipse. He’s set to defend his title on Saturday (9 p.m. ET,

2:37 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Shakur Stevenson and Oscar Valdez are in the process of finalizing a deal for a 130-pound title unification fight on April 30 in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN on Sunday. Sources said no financial agreement has been reached for the proposed ESPN main event. After Valdez (30-0, 23 KOs) scored

Joe Smith Jr. had to be relieved as much as anything else. The light heavyweight titleholder, facing his third scheduled opponent for his first defense, stopped Steve Geffrard in the ninth round Saturday night at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Geffrard, a former amateur standout who took the fight on eight days

Getty Images 2021 was a wild year in the boxing ring with some shocking upsets and iconic moments that will live forever in the sport’s lore. 2022 is shaping up to provide more of the same. Two world title bouts will round out the January schedule with Joe Smith Jr. defending the WBO light heavyweight

When Callum Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 a week ago and had to pull out of his fight with WBO light heavyweight champion Joe Smith, the man most impacted by it was Smith’s promoter, Joe DeGuardia of Star Boxing. DeGuardia knew Smith would want to fight and would willingly face any opponent he could find.

India is reportedly pulling out of the Asian U-22 Boxing C’ships.© Instagram The Boxing Federation of India has decided to pull out of the Asian Under-22 Championships for men and women in Tashkent, Uzbekistan due to the global surge in COVID-19 cases but is willing to participate if the tournament is rescheduled to a time

There has been a surge in Covid-19 cases in NIS, Patiala.© AFP Eight more boxers tested positive for COVID-19 in the ongoing men’s national camp at NIS, Patiala on Thursday, taking the total number of cases to 26 but all those infected are complaining of “relatively mild symptoms”. After 18 campers, 12 boxers and six

There are a lot of people involved in boxing who will eagerly say a lot of unflattering things about Bob Arum, the founder and chairman of Top Rank, the sport’s most prominent promotional company. Terence Crawford, the No. 2 pound-for-pound fighter in the world and the world’s best welterweight, is among them. Crawford filed a