2:55 PM ET Former pound-for-pound king Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez will end a 15-month layoff when he returns to the ring on Dec. 23. Gonzalez will take on Diomel Diocos in an eight-round junior bantamweight fight at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan. The bout will be part of the ESPN+ stream of the Teiken Boxing

9:40 AM ET Canelo Alvarez, who moved up two weight divisions and won a light heavyweight world title last month, vacated his 175-pound belt on Tuesday. Alvarez relinquished the WBO title in order to “comply with the World Boxing Organization’s prohibition against its champions holding titles from other sanctioning organizations in multiple weight classes.” Alvarez

2:56 PM ET The Boxing Writers Association of America has finalized the ballot for its 2019 awards in nine categories. In addition to handing out its most prestigious honor, the Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year award, the Joe Louis Fighter of the Decade will also bestowed. The nominees for fighter of the decade

11:49 AM ET NEW YORK — In the lead-up to welterweight world titlist Terence Crawford’s defense against “Mean Machine” Egidijus Kavaliauskas, the pound-for-pound star was asked about getting a big fight against one of the other elite fighters in his deep weight division almost as much as he was asked about Kavaliauskas. Weary of the

11:18 AM ET Katie Taylor has been selected as the 2019 Christy Martin award winner for female fighter of the year by the Boxing Writers Association of America, the organization announced on Monday. Taylor won over nominees Amanda Serrano and Mariana Juarez in the voting of the seven-person committee of made up of women’s boxing

8:07 PM ET Former four-division world titleholder Mikey Garcia used the occasion of his 32nd birthday Sunday to announce that he will return to the ring Feb. 29 to fight in the main event of a DAZN-streamed card under a deal he has made with promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing. Terms of the agreement

2:03 PM ET In a surprising development, lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and trainer Ben Davison have split. That leaves Fury in need of a new head trainer just as he begins to prepare for his mega pay-per-view rematch with world titleholder Deontay Wilder on Feb. 22. Davison announced his separation from Fury on Sunday

10:39 PM ET NEW YORK — Is Teofimo Lopez Jr. the real deal? That was the key question for the 2018 ESPN prospect of the year going into his shot at lightweight world titleholder Richard Commey, who was by far his most significant opponent, on Saturday night. The answer: A resounding yes. Lopez is for

12:59 AM ET Egidijus Kavaliauskas pushed Terence Crawford early and even buzzed him, but Crawford ultimately ran Kavaliauskas down and knocked him out. Teofimo Lopez Jr. stepped up to the biggest fight of his career and won a world title from Richard Commey with a clinical second-round knockout. It was a wildly entertaining night of

6:30 PM ET 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 Ricards Bolotniks stole the show with a first-round knockout of Steven Ward in the final quarterfinal of the Golden Contract light heavyweight tournament Saturday