8:02 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 Former world lightweight champion Anthony Crolla was left relieved to end his career on a high note after he salvaged a majority decision win

10:09 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has been temporarily suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission, putting his proposed super middleweight bout with Daniel Jacobs on Dec. 20 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in jeopardy. Bob Bennett, the executive director of the Nevada commission, told ESPN on Friday that Chavez

9:02 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez didn’t seem to have any worries at all after light heavyweight world titleholder Sergey Kovalev was initially overweight for their bout at the weigh-in Friday inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Alvarez, the reigning middleweight world champion, is moving up two weight classes from 160 pounds to

9:11 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Many boxing fans would have liked to have seen middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star, face rival and former unified titleholder Gennadiy Golovkin for a third time after two highly entertaining but disputed bouts — a draw in 2017 and a majority decision win for Alvarez in

9:10 AM ET Steve Kim 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 There’s a big fight taking place Saturday in Las Vegas that features boxing’s biggest star, middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez, going up in weight

12:13 AM ET Steve KimESPN Top Rank announced on Thursday that Mexico’s Jonathan Rodriguez was unable to obtain a visa to enter the United States, which has caused the postponement of his bout against junior bantamweight world titlist Jerwin Ancajas on Saturday at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. “This is a weird

2:55 PM ET Heavyweights Alexander Povetkin has fought for a heavyweight world title and Michael Hunter would like to. The former Olympians will square off in an elimination bout with the winner putting himself in position to get that eventual opportunity. Povetkin and Hunter will meet in the co-feature of the rematch between unified heavyweight

8:17 AM ET WBC junior lightweight world titleholder Miguel Berchelt will face former junior featherweight titlist Jason Sosa in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing card Saturday night at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. The fight will air live on ESPN at 10:30 p.m. ET, with undercard bouts on ESPN+

10:37 PM ET LAS VEGAS — As the fighters and their teams settled into their seats on the stage at the KA Theater at the MGM Grand for the final prefight news conference Wednesday afternoon ahead of the fight between Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star, and light heavyweight world titlist Sergey Kovalev, there seemed to

10:54 PM ET The representatives for unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez and former titleholder Viktor Postol came to terms for the mandatory fight Wednesday just before a purse bid was scheduled to take place in Los Angeles. Carl Moretti, vice president of Top Rank, which promotes Ramirez, and Tom Brown of TGB Promotions,