9:28 PM ET Steve KimESPN A 13-fight hybrid card scheduled for Saturday in Topeka, Kansas, has been moved to Abilene and will not involve any testing for COVID-19 beyond temperature checks and questionnaires. A few weeks ago, fighters on the card — which will feature boxing, kickboxing, bareknuckle fighting combat, jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts

6:09 PM ET Steve KimESPN Floyd Mayweather will be paying for the funeral services for George Floyd, according to a Mayweather representative. Floyd, who was black, died last week in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes. Chauvin, fired last Tuesday, was charged Friday with

1:06 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 Bouts between British boxers have garnered international attention in recent years, and Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua is now the sport’s most sought after

8:21 PM ET Associated Press DALLAS — Curtis Cokes, the Hall of Fame welterweight who became Dallas’ first world champion in 1966, has died. He was 82. Erwin “Sparky” Sparks, Cokes’ partner at Dallas’ Home of Champions gym, told The Dallas Morning News that Cokes died Friday after a week in hospice. Cokes took the

5:37 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 Dereck Chisora is considering a mixed martial arts fight in July while he waits for a date for his heavyweight fight with Oleksandr Usyk.

4:18 PM ET Steve KimESPN With boxing set to resume in the United States in June, Top Rank has put forth an early summer schedule of bouts, the majority of which will take place at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas and be televised on ESPN platforms. “The goal was to start out

5:58 PM ET Steve KimESPN The California State Athletic Commission passed emergency regulations Friday with an eye to resuming combat events in the summer months. The commission met via video conference Friday morning and its guidelines were sent to the California Office of Administrative Law. “When that process is finished, we’ll start,” said Andy Foster,

9:28 PM ET Steve KimESPN A 10-round junior welterweight matchup between Ivan Baranchyk and Jose Zepeda has been finalized for July 7 in Las Vegas, sources told ESPN on Thursday. Baranchyk, 27, (20-1, 13 KOs), the former IBF junior welterweight titleholder, is coming off a fourth-round stoppage of Gabriel Bracero in October. His lone loss

3:35 AM ET Associated Press PARIS — Hassan N’Dam, former middleweight boxing champion of the world, wanted to repay the French hospital that cared for his father-in-law through his bout with the coronavirus. Perhaps with Champagne? Or chocolate? No, N’Dam thought: “These are things that won’t last. I wanted to leave something quite memorable.” It

8:35 AM ET Steve KimESPN A full slate of fight cards are being lined up as boxing is poised to resume June 9. One key issue fighters are facing amid the coronavirus pandemic is a new reality for the money they’ll earn each time they step foot in the ring. For the time being, fighters