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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 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 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 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

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

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

The Telegraph Anger grows at Jon Rahm’s treatment after positive Covid test at Memorial Sympathy for Jon Rahm turned into bafflement and, in some quarters, anger at the PGA Tour’s handling of the Spaniard’s coronavirus withdrawal when he was six shots clear at the Memorial tournament on Saturday. Even the eventual winner, Patrick Cantlay, recognised

Once again, a member of the Paul family is the center of attention in the boxing world Sunday night. This time, it’s older brother, Logan Paul, who is in the spotlight when he faces the legendary Floyd Mayweather in an eight-round exhibition match at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. Follow along here as Yahoo Sports will

USATSI The next major PPV event in boxing is set to commence on Sunday evening in Miami. Retired pound-for-pound legend Floyd Mayweather will make the walk to the ring for an exhibition bout with social media star Logan Paul. The pair of megastars will meet at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, atop a

His bout with Naoya Inoue was the 2019 Fight of the Year according to Yahoo Sports and several other outlets, but that was of little consolation to Nonito Donaire. He lost, and his dream of unifying the bantamweight title before he retired was slipping through his fingers. Losing to Inoue, one of the elite talents

7:33 AM ET Floyd Mayweather and Jake Paul stood face-to-face trash-talking, surrounded by cameras and phones, completely comfortable in their element. It was their first news conference in Miami in advance of Sunday’s exhibition bout between Mayweather — the retired and undefeated boxer considered by many to be one of the greatest of all time

USATSI One of the more unique events in the modern era of combat sports takes place on Sunday when retired boxing great Floyd Mayweather returns to the ring for an exhibition bout with social media influencer Logan Paul. The action goes down from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida and airs live on Showtime

Say what you will about him, Logan Paul is not a stupid young man. He’s already a multi-millionaire because of his social media savvy, and on Sunday, he’s going to add millions more to his bank account by doing something he’s not very good at. You have to be brilliant to pull that off, and

7:52 AM ET It was 10 days before his fight with Floyd Mayweather, and YouTube star Logan Paul was asked during a phone call about the rules of the exhibition boxing match scheduled for Sunday in Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. Will there be judges? Will knockouts be allowed? Will there even be a winner announced

They were just nine fights between four men over 10 years. But the bouts in the 1980s between Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns changed a sport and the way we judge it forever. They became known as “The Four Kings” and captivated the world with their talent, machismo, tenacity