7:34 AM 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 Rocky Fielding is aiming to prove he is not finished after losing to Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and is targeting a rematch with Callum Smith.
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12:04 PM ET World junior lightweight titleholder Jamel Herring, lightweight titlist Devin Haney and super middleweight beltholder Billy Joe Saunders all retained their belts in their first title defenses on Saturday night. Herring was in the best of the three fights, Haney won in the most dominant fashion and Saunders struggled before a late knockout
2:13 AM ET Steve KimESPN LOS ANGELES — KSI edged out his archrival Logan Paul in what was a closely contested fight that was ultimately scored a split decision after six rounds. It was hard-fought, if not well fought by the two combatants. Perhaps there will be another chapter to this rivalry, but KSI ruled
11:35 PM ET Steve KimESPN Devin Haney retained his WBC lightweight title by blanking Alfredo Santiago over 12 rounds, winning 120-107 on all three cards, but the talented youngster wasn’t able to make the statement he wanted to as the KSI-Logan Paul co-feature at the Staples Center in Los Angles on Saturday. Haney didn’t have
1:17 AM ET Steve KimESPN LOS ANGELES — In their second fight to resolve their online rivalry, KSI got the better of Logan Paul on Saturday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles. KSI defeated Paul by split decision, with two judges scored the bout 57-54 and 56-55 for KSI, while a third judge had
12:40 AM ET Junior lightweight world titlist Jamel Herring, a Marine veteran who served two tours of duty in Iraq, won his belt in May on Memorial Day weekend. In his first defense, Herring retained the belt on another weekend very meaningful to him: Veterans Day and the Marine Corps’ birthday as he outpointed mandatory
12:54 PM ET Naoya Inoue’s ambitious plans for 2020 under his new co-promotional deal with Top Rank may have to be tempered. While “The Monster” unified bantamweight world titles and won the eight-man World Boxing Super Series tournament by unanimous decision against Nonito Donaire on Thursday at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, the
2:42 PM ET As far as Andre Ward is concerned, it’s thanks, but no thanks. Ward, the former unified super middleweight and light heavyweight world titleholder, said on Friday that he is not interested in coming out of retirement to fight newly crowned light heavyweight titlist Canelo Alvarez. Since Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star, climbed two
1:29 PM ET Former middleweight world titleholders Daniel Jacobs and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will meet in a 12-round super middleweight bout Dec. 20, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced on Friday at a news conference in Los Angeles. The fight, expected to be finalized for weeks, will take place in Phoenix at the Talking
10:35 AM ET Love Island finalist Tommy Fury, brother of Tyson, will fight for the first time since appearing on the show in December on the undercard of Daniel Dubois’ contest with Kyotaro Fujimoto on Dec. 21. Fury, who is well-known in the UK for finishing runner-up of the reality show, has won both of