8:59 AM ET Who’s the best fighter in the smaller divisions? You can make a case for Mexico’s Julio Cesar Martinez or South Africa’s Moruti Mthalane at flyweight, or Kenshiro Teraji in the junior flyweight division and the 54-0 strawweight machine Wanheng Menayothin. With no live boxing for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus
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5:35 PM ET Four-time world titleholder Erik Morales will donate three months’ salary to be used on groceries for communities in need in his native Baja California during the COVID-19 pandemic. Morales, of Mexico, said he began distributing groceries in Mexicali, Tecate, Ensenada and Rosarito on Monday, and he hopes to expand to more affected
9:00 AM ET Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim There have been attempts at tournaments in boxing through the years, to varying degrees of success. Over the past 20 years, a few
7:00 AM ET Devin Gordon IF THIS STORY WERE a prizefight, Bruce Buffer would get introduced first. He’s the challenger, after all, the baby brother by 13 years. Coming up in the shadow of a legend drove him to find his own voice, conquer his own sport, be his own Buffer. And so he should
12:18 PM ET Mark KriegelESPN As favored nephew and apprentice of the late, great trainer, Emanuel Steward, SugarHill Steward had been prepared for just about any measure of absurdity boxing could offer – except this: A magic carpet. No. Really. It seemed to come out of the ceiling, enshrouded in smoke, at the old Joe
5:34 PM ET Steve KimESPN WBC/IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence said Monday he is hoping to return to the ring by September or October and would like to fight Manny Pacquiao or Terence Crawford. Spence, 29, has been sidelined since he was involved in a horrific, one-car accident on Oct. 10. He crashed his Ferrari
9:17 AM ET For the next few months, there won’t be any boxing as the coronavirus pandemic has essentially brought this once non-stop sport to a halt. During this lull in the action, Dan Rafael takes a look at the bantamweight and junior bantamweight divisions. Bantamweight What’s the biggest question you have about this division?
12:51 PM ET There are no live boxing events for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus pandemic, but boxing fans will have a chance to revisit some of the best heavyweight fights in history on Tuesday, starting at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN2. The “Thrilla in Manila,” the third fight between Muhammad Ali and
2:16 PM ET The IBF’s mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev said he will donate half of his purse from the world heavyweight title fight against Briton Anthony Joshua to help medical workers fight the “devilish” coronavirus. The 38-year-old Bulgarian is expected to earn around $5 million from the fight, which has been postponed due to the