1:34 PM ET Bantamweight world titlist Zolani Tete has recovered from his shoulder injury and is ready to return to the ring. The South African southpaw will make his fourth title defense when he clashes with mandatory challenger and former flyweight and junior flyweight world titleholder John Riel Casimero on Nov. 30 (ESPN+) at Arena
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9:48 PM ET Junior middleweight Charles Conwell understandably has the injured Patrick Day on his mind day and night. Conwell knocked Day out in the 10th round of their bout on Saturday night’s Oleksandr Usyk-Chazz Witherspoon undercard at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. Day, who had been knocked down twice earlier in the fight, did not
11:03 AM ET Former featherweight world titleholders Oscar Valdez and Carl Frampton will make their ring returns on the same Nov. 30 card against separate opponents and in a new weight class, Top Rank announced Tuesday. Valdez, who gave up his featherweight belt earlier this year in order to move up in weight, will make
9:21 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Artur Beterbiev faces Oleksandr Gvozdyk on Friday night in a highly-anticipated WBC/IBF light heavyweight unification fight. Beterbiev (14-0, 14 KOs) has become a superstar on his own, but the guidance and friendship of MMA legend Georges St-Pierre has led him to greater heights. Mark Kriegel sat down with Beterbiev and
6:48 PM ET Pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford will make the mandatory defense of his welterweight world title against “Mean Machine” Egidijus Kavaliauskas on Dec. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York in the main event of a loaded tripleheader. The fight, finalized when Crawford signed a contract Monday, will headline a Top Rank Boxing
12:46 PM ET At its best, boxing is the most exhilarating sport in the world. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, as great as a big fight night, especially when the bout delivers the kind of excitement and drama we hope for. And then there are those awful nights, rare as they are, when
3:31 PM ET Middleweight world titlist Gennadiy Golovkin, fresh from winning a vacant belt last week, could make his first defense against unbeaten but largely unknown mandatory challenger Kamil Szeremeta on Feb. 29 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn said. “Feb. 29 is the date we’re looking at here. We have
12:15 AM ET 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 Steve Kim Former undisputed cruiserweight world champion and 2018 fighter of the year Oleksandr Usyk made his heavyweight debut against late-replacement opponent Chazz Witherspoon on
12:40 AM ET Oleksandr Usyk, the former undisputed cruiserweight world champion and the 2018 consensus fighter of the year, made a successful move to the heavyweight division to begin his chase of titles in that division also on Saturday night at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. Aiming to follow in the footsteps of his idol,
5:13 PM ET Light heavyweight world titlist Dmitry Bivol, unable to land a major fight in the talent-rich 175-pound division, stayed busy with the expected romp over Lenin Castillo on Saturday night at the Wintrust Arena in Chicago. Fighting in the co-feature of former undisputed cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk’s heavyweight debut against Chazz Witherspoon,