8:58 AM ET It’s time. The Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr., eight-round exhibition will take place on Saturday at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Tyson, 54, hasn’t fought since 2005, while Jones, 51, hasn’t won a significant fight since he defeated Antonio Tarver in November 2003. He did beat Felix Trinidad in 2008, but

7:24 AM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A fundraising campaign has been launched in an effort to raise enough money to renovate and reopen a museum at Muhammad Ali’s childhood home in Louisville. The nonprofit Muhammad Ali Childhood Home Museum is trying to raise $5.8 million that would be used to build a welcome

1:06 PM ET A date has been finalized for the rescheduled vacant WBC title bout between Ryan Garcia and Luke Campbell. The two will fight on Saturday, Jan. 2, DAZN announced Friday. Garcia and Campbell were scheduled to fight on Dec. 5 in Los Angeles, but the fight was postponed after Campbell tested positive for

3:01 PM ET Bob Bennett was sitting ringside at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for an IBF super middleweight title bout between James DeGale and Caleb Truax. It was April 7, 2018. In the third round, a bad cut opened up just above DeGale’s right eye. In the ring, referee Robert

8:52 AM ET Katie Taylor, an Olympic gold medalist, two-weight world champion and current undisputed lightweight champion of the world, is now ESPN’s No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter. Taylor dominated Miriam Gutierrez to score a one-sided unanimous decision victory on Nov. 14. That win impressed most of our voters and pushed her past Claressa Shields for

10:50 AM ET The most important thing that happens in boxing in 2020 might be what occurs inside the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California, on Thursday night. The fabled gym founded by Freddie Roach and occupied by many boxing greats over the years, including Manny Pacquiao, will host the first three installments of

7:57 PM ET Andrew Moloney’s team has filed an appeal with the Nevada State Athletic Commission following a controversial conclusion in Saturday’s boxing match with Joshua Franco in Las Vegas, Moloney’s attorney, Josh Dubin, told ESPN on Wednesday. The fight, a rematch for Franco’s WBA super flyweight title at MGM Grand, was stopped by doctors

9:00 AM ET Terence Crawford scored his eighth consecutive stoppage victory with a tremendous fourth-round TKO of former welterweight world titlist Kell Brook to leave no doubt he’s the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Or is he? ESPN boxing writer Ben Baby believes that until Crawford faces the elite at welterweight, there’s another fighter

Nov 13, 2020 Canelo Alvarez’s fight against Callum Smith to unify the WBA super middleweight titles will take place Saturday, Dec. 19. Alvarez and Smith agreed to the fight last Wednesday but were still looking for a date. The bout will be televised on DAZN. Alvarez (53-1-2, 36 KOs) will face “Mundo” Smith (27-0, 19