3:12 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Man’s most primitive endeavor came wrapped in the lavish and the absurd on Saturday night in Vegas. It was the biggest heavyweight fight in decades — a night the boxing folks hope is a prelude and not a throwback — and Tyson Fury owned every last inch of it.

2:30 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 LAS VEGAS — In what may go down as the biggest heavyweight fight of the past 20 years, Tyson Fury thoroughly dominated Deontay

8:19 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Saturday’s heavyweight championship fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury at MGM Grand Garden Arena broke the record for a heavyweight boxing gate in Nevada, Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN. According to duBoef, there were still “a couple more tickets” to be sold hours before Wilder and

11:24 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Rivals Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions, working together on Saturday night’s Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight championship rematch, have gotten additional business done during fight week, finalizing two more deals. They put the finishing touches on rescheduling unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez’s mandatory defense against PBC fighter

9:41 PM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Patrick Teixeira has signed an extension of his promotional agreement with Golden Boy Promotions, the company announced on Friday. “I am very happy to re-sign with Golden Boy,” Teixeira said. “Thanks to this great promotional company, I was able to achieve my dream of becoming a world champion,

7:43 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Hoping to avoid a repeat of the pushing and shoving that took place between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury at their final pre-fight news conference on Wednesday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission mandated that the big men would not be permitted to face off

7:55 AM ET There are a handful of unforgettable moments that are seared forever into the minds of boxing fans. There is a discombobulated Mike Tyson on all fours grasping for his mouthpiece and trying to shove it back in before he is counted out in his monumental upset loss to Buster Douglas. There is

8:49 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Junior welterweight contender Subriel Matias won’t forget what happened seven months ago, but he also doesn’t plan to let it dictate the rest of his career. Last July 19, Matias, a big puncher from Puerto Rico, stopped then-unbeaten rising contender Maxim Dadashev in the 11th round in a 140-pound

4:35 PM ET The Nevada State Athletic Commission has banned Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury from engaging in a faceoff after they weigh-in for their heavyweight championship rematch Friday afternoon, Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN’s Dan Rafael on Thursday. “In my 25 years in boxing I’ve never heard of an administrative body stepping