3:51 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 The World Boxing Council (WBC) is advising promoters and national or state commissions to put boxers and their teams into 14 days of isolation
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1:52 PM ET Steve KimESPN A card featuring boxing, kickboxing, MMA and bare-knuckle fighting has been scheduled for June 6 at Forbes Field in Topeka, Kansas. “We’re going to have a ring and a cage side-by-side,” said John Carden, the head of Carden Combat Sports, which is staging the event. He said that the venue
10:33 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 Promoter Frank Warren hopes to stage professional boxing events behind closed doors at hotels, television studios or purpose-built venues around Britain by early July.
8:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Boxers are always thinking about fighting, whether it’s the previous bout or the next one. Those who step into the ring rarely get the chance to take a step back and understand all they’ve been through. However, with the sport on hold, many world-class fighters have had a chance to
7:55 PM ET Steve KimESPN A short training clip of Mike Tyson recently went viral, and according to the man who was catching the former champ’s punches, the iconic heavyweight still has some fight left in him at age 53. “I didn’t know what to expect,” trainer Rafael Cordeiro told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani on Monday.
8:29 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN May 5, 1862: The French were heavy favorites that day, as it was long before they went on their losing streak in international competition. Sportsbooks don’t keep odds that far back, but the troop ratio was probably about two-to-one. Still, Mexico won the Battle of Puebla in just a matter
7:05 PM ET Steve KimESPN WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury said he no longer plans to retire after two more fights and instead hopes to keep boxing until age 40. “I’m going to fight on till I’m 40 years old,” he told ESPN on Thursday. “I’ve been thinking about it, and there isn’t much else
8:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN Tyson Fury’s team might be hard at work trying to make a late 2020 fight against Anthony Joshua a reality, but Fury, the lineal heavyweight champion and WBC titleholder, has had his focus centered on home. He’s been making the most of his time the past six-plus weeks as the
12:26 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN A FEW WEEKS ago Paul Armendariz, an air conditioning mechanic from California’s Central Valley, was talking to his aunt Yolanda, who had just received her $1,200 federal stimulus check. Aunt Yolanda, now 74, was the 11th of 12 children from Fresno by way of Mexico, part of an immigrant generation
4:39 PM ET While a third bout between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former titleholder Deontay Wilder is contractually agreed upon, there is a chance that Fury could instead face Anthony Joshua — who has possession of the other three major belts — in what would be an all-British battle for supremacy of the