Aug 10, 2021 The World Boxing Association, one of the sport’s four major sanctioning bodies, will start enforcing a reduction policy for its number of championships, WBA president Gilberto Mendoza told ESPN Knockout last week. Mendoza, who was in Mexico City to present the junior flyweight division belt to “regular” champion Esteban Bermudez, said the

Aug 9, 2021 Mike CoppingerESPN Former lightweight titleholder Robert Easter Jr. was charged with misdemeanor assault in connection with an alleged assault Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, according to a Toledo Municipal Court complaint obtained by ESPN. The 30-year-old is accused of punching a woman, rendering her unconscious. The officer observed that the woman had a

7:32 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Guillermo Rigondeaux has heard it all before. He’s boring. Unwatchable. The opposite of entertaining. The two-time Olympic gold medalist absorbed all the criticism even as he was boxing circles around his opponents. Nonito Donaire, then the reigning ESPN fighter of the year, was thoroughly outboxed by Rigondeaux in 2013. Despite

3:15 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Manny Pacquiao will still challenge for a welterweight title on Aug. 21 in Las Vegas — it just won’t be against Errol Spence Jr. The Filipino senator will now face Cuba’s Yordenis Ugas after a retinal tear in Spence’s left eye was discovered during a pre-fight medical exam, PBC announced

2:30 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The IBF ruled Monday that Triller must stage the undisputed lightweight championship fight between Teofimo Lopez and George Kambosos in a location that doesn’t require quarantine, according to the decision obtained by ESPN. That means Triller’s plan to reschedule the event on Oct. 17 in Sydney, Australia, is scrapped. The

8:34 AM ET Canelo Alvarez is still looking for an opponent to fight later this year, but the rest of the 2021 boxing schedule is quickly filling up with title fights. Shakur Stevenson will face a test in WBO junior lightweight champion Jamel Herring, Andrew Moloney and Joshua Franco will complete their trilogy, Josh Taylor

8:34 AM ET Canelo Alvarez is still looking for an opponent to fight later this year, but the rest of the 2021 boxing schedule is quickly filling up with title fights. Shakur Stevenson will face a test in WBO junior lightweight champion Jamel Herring, Andrew Maloney and Joshua Franco will complete their trilogy, Josh Taylor

Aug 8, 2021 Mike CoppingerESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko, one of the world’s best pound-for-pound boxers, is in advanced talks for a Dec. 11 lightweight fight with former titleholder Richard Commey, multiple sources told ESPN. And super middleweight prospect Edgar Berlanga is in talks to fight in the chief-support bout, according to sources. No matter whom he

10:25 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The IBF is expected to rule that Triller must stage the undisputed lightweight championship fight between Teofimo Lopez and George Kambosos in the United States rather than Australia, multiple sources told ESPN on Sunday. The decision is expected to be handed down as soon as Monday, sources said, while also

Aug 6, 2021 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 Michael Conlan increased his world title options with a unanimous points victory over TJ Doheny for the WBA interim featherweight belt in Belfast, Northern