4:41 PM ET Josie Harris, the former longtime girlfriend of Floyd Mayweather, with whom she has three teenage children, was found dead in her car outside her home in Valencia, California, on Tuesday night. She was 40. Homicide investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department responded to a report and at approximately 10 p.m.
Boxing
9:03 PM ET The Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame on Tuesday unveiled the 2020 induction class — the Las Vegas shrine’s eighth — and it includes 10 fighters and four non-boxers, all of whom had fights in Nevada or were connected to the sport in the state during their careers. Among the fighters to be
4:49 PM ET Former junior featherweight world titlist Scott Quigg has announced his retirement from boxing. Quigg hinted that he would think about retirement following a hard-fought 11th-round knockout loss to Jono Carroll in their junior lightweight main event on Saturday at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. After some thought, Quigg, of England, made it
4:14 PM ET Light heavyweight contender Maxim Vlasov has signed with Top Rank in a deal announced Tuesday. The signing means that Top Rank now has promotional ties to all four fighters slated to participate in the four-man box-off ordered by the WBO in January to fill the 175-pound world title Canelo Alvarez vacated in
4:35 PM ET Super middleweight world titlist David Benavidez will have a homecoming fight for his first title defense. Benavidez will square off with Roamer Alexis Angulo on April 18 in the main event of a tripleheader on Showtime (10 p.m. ET) at the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, Premier Boxing Champions and TGB Promotions
3:15 PM ET The fight between unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez and mandatory challenger Viktor Postol was officially rescheduled on Monday. The fight will headline a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on May 9 (ESPN and ESPN Deportes, 10 p.m. ET with preliminary bouts streaming on ESPN+ beginning at 7 p.m. ET)
1:42 PM ET Another boxing event has been knocked out by the coronavirus outbreak. Promoters Matchroom Boxing and OPI Since 82 announced on Monday that their DAZN show scheduled for March 27 at the AGSM Forum in Verona, Italy, has been postponed “due to the recent ban by the Italian government of all sports events
11:05 PM ET NEW YORK — Heavyweight Robert Helenius, a big underdog, who had taken a beating for most of the first three rounds, rallied for a shocking fourth-round technical knockout of contender Adam Kownacki in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions on Fox card on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
12:47 AM ET Steve KimESPN In a fight that was presumed to be an afterthought for Adam Kownacki, Robert Helenius earned a TKO victory in Saturday night’s heavyweight title eliminator at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, and likely set himself up for at least a few significant fights to come. To put this fight