8:39 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor has headlined MGM Grand Garden Arena several times. He has been the main event at T-Mobile Arena, too. And now he could be eyeing a massive bout at Allegiant Stadium, where the Las Vegas Raiders are due to begin playing next season. McGregor said Thursday at a

2:57 PM ET Former pound-for-pound king and four-division world champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez will get a chance to win another title next month. Gonzalez will challenge junior bantamweight world titlist Kal Yafai on Feb. 29 (DAZN) at the Ford Center at The Star, the Dallas Cowboys training facility in Frisco, Texas, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie

9:59 AM ET If heavyweight Andy Ruiz Jr. is a recent example of how a fighter should not handle things after a huge victory, then Julian “J Rock” Williams appears to be the polar opposite. Ruiz scored a monumental upset on June 1 by knocking out Anthony Joshua in the seventh round to take his

11:55 AM ET The potential move for women’s boxing champion Claressa Shields to mixed martial arts is “100 percent real,” her manager, Mark Taffet, told ESPN on Thursday — although he also made clear such a move wouldn’t mean the three-weight-class champion would give up boxing. Instead, he said, they have visions of being able

7:49 AM ET Steve Kim 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 Josh Taylor recently signed a multifight deal with Top Rank, leaving his former promoter, Barry McGuigan’s Cyclone Promotions. The move means Taylor

7:23 PM ET Steve KimESPN Alexander Besputin has been notified by the Monaco Boxing Federation of an ”abnormal test result” in the wake of his victory over Radzhab Butaev on Nov. 30, which was contested for a version of the WBA welterweight. The two met in Monte Carlo in what was a fast-paced affair that

12:11 PM ET With unified welterweight world titlist Errol Spence Jr. sidelined until at least the spring following an Oct. 10 car accident and due to make a mandatory defense of his WBC belt, the IBF has ordered Kudratillo Abdukakhorov and Sergei Lipinets to meet for its interim title. After Abdukakhorov, Spence’s IBF mandatory challenger,

11:51 AM ET ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — This seaside home to several resorts and casinos was a boxing hotbed for much of the 1980s through the 2000s. From 2000, when I began covering boxing full time for USA Today, through 2014, I covered dozens of fight cards in Atlantic City, including the final nine bouts

8:30 PM ET Steve KimESPN WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury met face-to-face for the first time in Los Angeles on Monday to discuss their long-awaited rematch Feb. 22 in Las Vegas. On Dec. 1, 2018, Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs) and Fury (29-0-1, 20 KOs) fought to a disputed draw at Staples Center