Boxing

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

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

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,

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

Unbeaten slugger Gervonta Davis’ bid for a world title in a third weight class against Mario Barrios on June 26 headlines a strong spring/summer boxing schedule announced Thursday by Showtime. Davis (24-0, 23 KOs) will challenge unbeaten Mario Barrios (26-0, 17 KOs) in a bid for Barrios’ WBA super lightweight title. If successful, it will

Getty Images Triller returns to pay-per-view on Saturday with another celebrity-driven boxing card. In the main event from Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, YouTube star Jake Paul will look to improve to 3-0 as a professional boxer when he faces former UFC star Ben Askren. The event is certainly appealing to a different crowd than the standard

Indian Boxers enjoyed a successful second day at Youth World Championships in Poland.© AFP It was a second successive all-win day for the Indian boxers at the youth world championships in Kielce, Poland with two from the women’s contingent advancing to the quarterfinals after clinching dominating triumphs. Poonam (57kg) and Vinka (60kg) won their bouts

Jake Paul, whom Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach refers to not-so-lovingly as “The YouTube Boob,” is a significant favorite over Ben Askren when they meet Saturday (9 p.m. ET, Triller/PPV) in the main event of a Triller Fight Club card at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Paul is 2-0, with wins against another YouTube star

Indian women’s boxing’s High Performance Director Raffaele Bergamasco and head coach Mohammed Ali Qamar are among 21 campers who have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi but none of the infected pugilists are bound for Olympics. The Sports Authority of India (SAI) issued a statement to confirm the

The Daily Beast Prince Harry Is Having a Very Weird Week Back in the U.K. Chris Jackson/GettyHis grandfather’s funeral isn’t until Saturday, but this is shaping up to be, even by his extravagant standards of non-normalcy, a pretty extraordinary week for Prince Harry.As he sits in splendid isolation in Frogmore Cottage, Harry could be forgiven