1:15 PM ET Flyweights Julio Cesar Martinez and Cristofer Rosales will square off for a vacant world title on Dec. 20, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn said on Friday. The fight will take place at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix and serve as the co-feature for the DAZN card scheduled to be headlined

9:06 AM ET At this point, it’s the only question worth asking: Who will win Saturday’s heavyweight world title bout between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas? Wilder (41-0-1, 40 KOs), who holds the WBC world title, defeated Ortiz by 10th-round TKO in March 2018. Since then,

8:43 PM ET Junior welterweight Ryan Martin has been suspended for four years by UK Anti-Doping because he tested positive for two banned substances following his fight with Josh Taylor on Nov. 3, 2018. Taylor knocked out Martin in the seventh round of their quarterfinal bout in the World Boxing Series tournament at the SSE

4:28 PM ET Floyd Mayweather says he’s definitively done with his in-ring boxing career, citing health concerns and recent deaths in the sport. The undefeated boxing legend has returned from retirement in the past, most recently for a 2017 blockbuster fight against UFC star Conor McGregor. But Mayweather said at the opening of his Mayweather

4:37 AM ET Boxing referees and judges involved in the Rio Olympics, who were all suspended following the Games, will not be allowed to officiate at Tokyo 2020, an International Olympic Committee (IOC) task force said on Wednesday. All 36 referees and judges from Rio 2016 were suspended in the wake of the Games as

11:15 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and challenger Luis “King Kong” Ortiz may differ on who they believe will win their rematch, but one thing they did agree on when they met on Wednesday for the final pre-fight news conference inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena was how the fight

4:30 PM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia, who all along planned to move up in weight in 2020, will do so for his next fight. Munguia, one of boxing’s most crowd-pleasing battlers, will move up to the 160-pound middleweight division to fight Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan, a fellow brawler but prohibitive underdog, in a

2:58 PM ET Light heavyweight contenders Jesse Hart and Joe Smith Jr. will square off on Jan. 11 in the main event of the first Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card of 2020, Top Rank announced on Tuesday. Hart and Smith will meet in a scheduled 10-round bout at Etess Arena at the Hard Rock

3:03 PM ET Welterweight world titlist Manny Pacquiao plans to be back in the ring in the first third of 2020, his closest adviser told ESPN. Pacquiao, who serves as a senator his native Philippines, will next fight in “in late March or April” in the United States, said Sean Gibbons, the president of MP

3:20 AM ET Logan Paul will launch an official appeal against his split decision defeat to KSI after a two-point penalty cost the American a victory on the cards in their rematch. Paul was docked two points for hitting KSI on the canvas after knocking down the Englishman in the fourth round during the fight