Boxing

7:01 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 Promoter Eddie Hearn has said that Anthony Joshua’s fight against Tyson Fury is bigger than the Olympics and has no concern about the undisputed

4:45 PM ET Elwin Soto will defend his WBO flyweight world title against former strawweight champion Katsunari Takayama on the Canelo Alvarez-Billy Joe Saunders undercard on May 8 at AT&T Stadium, multiple sources told ESPN on Friday. Soto (18-1, 12 KOs), 24, of Mexico, will be making the first defense under the Matchroom Boxing banner,

The Youth Boxing World Championships is taking place in Kielce, Poland.© AFP India’s Poonam entered the semifinals of the featherweight (57kg) category while five of her compatriots advanced to the quarterfinals of the Youth Boxing World Championships after securing comfortable wins in their last-16 stage bouts in Kielce, Poland. Poonam, who has never lost a

2:18 AM ET As a DJ spun music above the ring, Jake Paul stood bouncing around, posing for photographs and dancing with his team. About 10 minutes earlier, he landed a single straight right hand to the face of Ben Askren, knocking him out in the first round. It was a short end to a

1:12 AM ET Jake Paul took less than two minutes to knock out Ben Askren and claim his third pro boxing win on Saturday night. In the main event of a Triller card inside of Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Paul, a social media standout who made his name on YouTube and a variety of other platforms,

1:38 AM ET It took Jake Paul less than two minutes to win his third professional fight. Paul, the YouTube star-turned boxer, sent Ben Askren to the canvas with a straight right hand midway through the first round of their cruiserweight fight. Even though Askren got up, referee Brian Stutts decided Askren couldn’t go on,

Getty Images For yet another fight, Jake Paul secured himself a knockout against a former professional athlete who claimed that he would wipe the floor with the YouTube personality-turned-boxer. Paul knocked out former UFC fighter Ben Askren in the first round of their pseudo-celebrity bout.  While his boxing career is still young, some on social

LAS VEGAS — On a night when a social media star knocked out a former MMA champion in a ridiculously one-sided fashion, Robert Whittaker reminded the world what a true fighter is all about. The former UFC middleweight champion put on a master class Saturday at Apex, beating Kelvin Gastelum in every area and scoring

Jake Paul is 3-0 as a boxer. He remains 0-0 against actual boxers. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images for Triller) Jake Paul’s boxing career keeps on growing, and now he has his fastest win yet. The YouTube star defeated UFC fighter Ben Askren by knockout in the first round of a Triller Fight Club event

Getty Images Jake Paul makes his return to the boxing ring on Saturday night for his PPV main event against former MMA fighter Ben Askren. The two are set to throw down inside the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta atop a four-fight card as part of Triller Fight Club. The card is also set to have

Getty Images Combat sports’ long history of circus sideshow fights has received a modern wrinkle in recent years, with social media influencers leading a new wave of “outsiders” stepping into the fight game. That continues on Saturday night when YouTube star Jake Paul steps into the boxing ring for the third time as a professional

USATSI Relative newcomers to the sport of boxing meet when internet personality and YouTuber Jake Paul meets retired professional MMA and amateur wrestler Ben Askren in a scheduled eight-round cruiserweight bout on Saturday. Their showdown tops the four-flight boxing card from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The main card is slated for 9 p.m. ET. Paul

Getty Images Jake Paul and Ben Askren are set to square off on Saturday night in Atlanta in a sanctioned boxing match. While that sentence may surprise you a bit, the money both are set to make should not. Triller Fight Club is set to hand out some hefty checks to its combatants that will

Abid Khan trained Army personnel in boxing for five years.© Twitter Former national boxer and a qualified coach from the National Institute of Sports (NIS), Abid Khan might have turned into an autoloader and driver with sacks in Chandigarh grain market but he vows to train underprivileged children in the local area free of cost.

Ben Askren sat at a podium for about a half-hour on Thursday, discussing his fight with Jake Paul in the main event of a Triller Fight Club pay-per-view card Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. He spoke of his desire to urinate in his own backyard, his body odor, how Dana White finally came to

Jake Paul was cleared to fight Ben Askren on Friday by a doctor for the Georgia Athletic Commission, despite his comments Thursday at a news conference to promote Saturday’s fight at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta that he has early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Matt Woodruff, the executive director of the George Commission,

Getty Images Internationally renowned DJ and producer Diplo is taking the plunge into combat sports. Triller Fight Club is set to announce on Saturday that he will make his debut in less than a couple months not as a promoter, nor as a ringside DJ, but rather an actual fighter. On June 5, Diplo will

LAS VEGAS — When he is introduced publicly, Jake Paul is almost always referred to as “a YouTube sensation,” even though, by his own admission, Paul is no longer a YouTuber. After thinking about it for a while, Paul said he prefers to be referred to as an athlete, or a boxer, because that’s what