Oct 18, 2020 Steve KimESPN We have a new lightweight king. At just 23 years old, Teofimo Lopez became the undisputed lightweight champion of the world by dethroning Vasiliy Lomachenko over 12 tense rounds inside the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Lopez becomes the youngest fighter to become a four-belt
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3:00 PM 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 will end a year out of the ring when he defends his WBA, IBF and WBO world heavyweight titles against Kubrat Pulev
6:13 PM ET Steve KimESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. came in at the lightweight limit of 135 pounds on Friday’s official weigh-in for their anticipated lightweight unification fight at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Saturday (ESPN, 7:30 p.m. ET). There was palpable tension as Lomachenko and Lopez engaged in
6:47 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko’s famously idiosyncratic training regimen is less an athletic endeavor than a series of survivalist exercises, designed to exceed the ostensible limits of his mind, body and soul. He will hold his breath in excess of four minutes. Spar 15 consecutive 4-minute rounds with 30 seconds of rest in
10:29 PM ET Steve KimESPN The lightweight title unification fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. is tantalizingly close, and there are just a few small hurdles left to clear before we reach Saturday night. Both fighters need to pass a final COVID test and, of course, they need to make weight. After years
5:18 PM ET Steve KimESPN WBO middleweight champ Demetrius Andrade will face Dusty Hernandez Harrison in a 10-round non-title fight on Nov. 27 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The card, which also features former two-time titlist Daniel Jacobs vs. Gabe Rosado, will take place without fans in attendance due
8:26 AM ET Steve KimESPN The moment has finally arrived. Through years of conflict and antagonization, individual paths to titles and finally a global pandemic, on Saturday, Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr. will step between the ropes to battle for lightweight world titles from all four major sanctioning bodies at the MGM Grand Convention
6:13 PM ET Steve KimESPN The rematch between WBA junior bantamweight titlist Joshua Franco and Andrew Moloney will take place on Nov. 14, in Las Vegas. The fight will be the co-main event of Terence Crawford’s welterweight title defense against Kell Brook (ESPN, 10 p.m. ET). On June 23, Franco (17-1-2, 8 KOs) won the
11:14 AM ET Associated Press The women’s world middleweight title fight Saturday between Savannah Marshall and Hannah Rankin in England has been called off after a trainer tested positive for the coronavirus. The trainer is Peter Fury. He is the uncle of heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. Peter Fury is Marshall’s trainer. Marshall, 29, was scheduled
7:13 AM ET Teofimo Lopez Sr. was in a hotel lobby in New York City in December 2018. The world didn’t know it yet, but when he ran into Vasiliy Lomachenko — the two-time Olympic gold medalist, three-division world titlist and boxing’s pound-for-pound king — and extended his hand, Lopez’s plan for his son was