3:15 PM ET Bitter rivals Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin will meet for a third time, but just not right away, sources have told ESPN. After weeks of arduous negotiations that nearly collapsed multiple times, a deal was finally completed under which Alvarez would face Billy Joe Saunders on May 2 with the stipulation that

1:24 PM ET Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions, following the guidelines announced by the British government and the British Boxing Board of Control, has followed other United Kingdom promoters and, as of Tuesday, postponed its upcoming events. “Queensberry Promotions feel it would be inappropriate to proceed with any forthcoming boxing promotions in front of live audiences

Mar 17, 2020 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 It was a hard deal to get done, but Canelo Alvarez has agreed to square off against middleweight titlist Gennadiy Golovkin for the

Mar 16, 2020 Steve KimESPN A full slate of boxing cards scheduled over the next couple of weeks was wiped clean in a few days as various commissions decided to cancel events throughout the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. As of now, nobody really knows when fight cards will resume in the United States.

12:19 PM ET Steve KimESPN While boxing events throughout the United States were being postponed and cancelled this past weekend amid the growing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, one nationally televised card did take place this past Friday night at the Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota — the latest installment of “ShoBox”, which

7:39 PM ET Promoters of the April 22nd Jeff Horn vs. Tim Tszyu fight have postponed the event, hours after communicating it was going ahead as scheduled. The U-turn comes as the coronavirus pandemic grips the world and just two days after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison banned mass gathering of 500 or more people

2:09 PM ET The slew of boxing postponements due to the coronavirus pandemic, including multiple world title fights, continued Monday. Top Rank postponed three events, most notably an ESPN card due to take place on March 28 at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada, headlined by unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev’s mandatory

9:30 AM ET A European qualifying event for this year’s Tokyo Olympic boxing tournament will be closed to spectators from Monday due to the coronavirus outbreak, organisers said. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) boxing task force which is organising the event in the Copper Box at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park said the decision was

5:55 PM ET The Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) on Saturday voted to suspend all combat sports events in the state until March 25. The emergency meeting was called in order to address the coronavirus outbreak that has affected many sports worldwide. The next NSAC meeting is scheduled for March 25, and that is when

1:33 PM ET In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Boxing Super Series on Saturday announced that the final of its second-season cruiserweight tournament has been postponed. World titleholder Yunier Dorticos and former world titlist Mairis Briedis were due to meet in the already long-delayed final of the eight-man tournament on March 21 in