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(Reuters) – Richard McLaren, who has led investigations into Russian doping and corruption in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), has been put in charge of an investigation into international boxing, the Canadian law professor said on Monday. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) has brought in McLaren Global Sport Solutions to investigate mismanagement and corruption as

12:25 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Shakur Stevenson said his shutout victory over Jeremiah Nakathila wasn’t good enough by his standards but that he is confident he has more than enough to beat WBO junior lightweight champion Jamel Herring. Moments after his win, Stevenson was asked about Herring, shown on the screen, and he didn’t

You can’t beat what you can’t hit. Even when you don’t get hit much yourself. That was Jeremiah Nakathila’s fate on Saturday at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, where the gifted Shakur Stevenson outclassed the Namibian in every way to win a shutout decision in a 12-round junior lightweight bout. Stevenson (16-0, 8 KOs) probably didn’t

Getty Images The problem isn’t a lack of want to match himself against the best fighters on the planet. For unbeaten Shakur Stevenson, the issue has become more about his opposition’s unwillingness to do the same.  Stevenson (15-0, 8 KOs), the sensational 23-year-old native of Newark, New Jersey, returns Saturday for what best can be

Lamar Odom had little trouble with Aaron Carter. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images) Lamar Odom was once a professional basketball player and Aaron Carter was once a pop star. The pair spent Friday taking part in the most present of trends, a celebrity boxing match. To the surprise of few, the bout ended with the

8:01 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Shakur Stevenson nonchalantly sat on the stage rocking a gray Nike hoodie, black basketball shorts and a New York Yankees hat cocked to one side at his prefight news conference, when his opponent on Saturday — Jeremiah Nakathila — said something that made Stevenson quickly turn his head in

Carlos Balderas, a 2016 U.S. Olympian who was regarded as one of the hot prospects at the Rio de Janeiro Games, has signed a multi-fight deal with Top Rank. Balderas, 24, hasn’t panned out as expected as a professional and his career has been slowed by management and other issues. He’s 9-1 with eight knockouts,

Legendary boxer Dingko Singh is also a Arjuna Awardee.© Twitter Former India boxer Ngangom Dingko Singh died on Thursday aged 42 after a prolonged illness. A Padma Shree awardee, who ended India’s wait of 16 years for Asian Games gold in bantamweight category at 1998 Games in Bangkok, lost his fight to liver cancer, which

Asian Games gold medal-winning former boxer Dingko Singh died on Thursday after a long battle with liver cancer. He was 42 and had been fighting the disease since 2017. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to pay tribute to Dingko Singh. “Shri Dingko Singh was a sporting superstar, an outstanding boxer who earned several laurels

LAS VEGAS — It wasn’t a shock when Oscar Valdez defeated Miguel Berchelt to capture the WBC super featherweight championship on Feb. 20 at the MGM Grand. After all, Valdez was 28-0 entering the fight and had been the featherweight champion before moving up in weight. What was stunning was the vicious way that Valdez

7:30 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 Anthony Joshua could defend his world heavyweight titles against Oleksandr Usyk at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, in September, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn confirmed to

The exhibition boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and YouTuber Logan Paul generated plenty of conversation among other professional fighters. A big topic of the conversation among them was the amount of money the fighters earned. Mayweather told Yahoo Sports before the bout that he expected to make between $50 million and $100 million for the

In the mid-to-late 1990s, Top Rank produced a series of pay-per-view events headlined by Oscar De La Hoya that included on the undercards the modern-day equivalent of Logan and Jake Paul. We saw it on Sept. 18, 1999, during the so-called “Fight of the Millennium” between De La Hoya and Felix Trinidad. We saw it

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

Getty Images Former NFL All-Pro wide receiver Chad Johnson’s boxing debut was a roller coaster on Sunday that finished with him standing on his feet.  Johnson, 43, survived a knockdown in the final round after largely controlling the action against Brian Maxwell in a four-round exhibition bout that kicked off the Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul pay-per-view

Getty Images On Sunday night in Miami Gardens, Florida, Floyd Mayweather outboxed Logan Paul over eight rounds in an exhibition bout that, by rule, had no official winner. For all the expectations of a wild clash between the boxing legend and the YouTube star, the fight looked like most of Mayweather’s fights have: Mayweather proving

Floyd Mayweather predictably dominated YouTube star Logan Paul on Sunday night in an eight-round exhibition fight in Miami before admitting it could have been his final performance. Floyd Mayweather, who weighed in at 155 lbs with his opponent tipping the scales at 189.5 lbs, produced a slick performance much to the delight of the crowd

1:21 AM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — Somewhere in Miami, Floyd Mayweather is laughing. A lackluster eight-round exhibition that went the distance with no official winner was an appropriate end for Sunday night’s Mayweather-Logan Paul showcase. Everything about this bout was a circus, and the redeeming hope of a viral knockout to make it all