5:13 PM ET Former cruiserweight unified champion Oleksandr Usyk makes his heavyweight debut against Chazz Witherspoon on Saturday in the main event of Saturday’s DAZN card at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. But before that, two title fights will take place on the undercard In the co-main event, light heavyweight world titlist Dmitry Bivol takes on

Oct 12, 2019 Junior middleweight Patrick Day, who required emergency brain surgery after suffering a 10th-round knockout at the hands of prospect Charles Conwell on Saturday night, remains in a coma and is in extremely critical condition, according to a statement released Sunday evening by promoter Lou DiBella. “Patrick Day suffered a traumatic brain injury

4:57 PM ET Middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez is preparing for his move up to light heavyweight to challenge for a world title in a fourth weight division, but he did take time out to watch rival Gennadiy Golovkin’s recent fight and came away unimpressed. Golovkin won a disputed unanimous decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko —

6:04 PM ET Last October, Oleksandr Usyk, the undisputed cruiserweight world champion at the time, found himself surrounded by boxing greats during the WBC’s 56th annual convention. Usyk, in a hotel in his hometown of Kiev, Ukraine, was like a kid in a candy story. Usyk was giddy as he sat with heavyweight royalty in

3:01 PM ET LAS VEGAS — WWE’s next big show is going to have some serious combat sports flavor. Boxing heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez have signed to perform in WWE Crown Jewel on Oct. 31 in Saudi Arabia, it was announced Friday at a news conference at T-Mobile

12:46 PM ET Middleweight world titlist Jermall Charlo will make his second defense against Dennis Hogan on Dec. 7 in the main event of a Showtime-televised card, Premier Boxing Center announced on Friday. The fight will take place at Barclays Center in New York with the fighters scheduled to appear at a news conference on

7:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Unified welterweight world titlist Errol Spence Jr. was in stable condition Thursday evening at a Dallas hospital after being involved in a serious one-car accident. “Spence is awake and responding and is listed in stable condition,” his representatives said in a statement. “He didn’t sustain any broken bones or

11:47 AM ET Showtime’s Premier Boxing Champions card on Oct. 26 has undergone a radical change with a main event fighter dropping out and the opening bout of the tripleheader being replaced entirely. Junior middleweight Erickson Lubin will face new opponent Nathaniel Gallimore in the main event of the card (Showtime, 9 p.m. ET) at

9:15 PM ET Heralded light heavyweight prospect Joe Ward, a 2016 Irish Olympian, is scheduled to have surgery on his injured left knee on Friday in New York, co-promoter Lou DiBella told ESPN on Wednesday night. Ward, 25, is expected to be sidelined for at least four months. Ward made his pro debut on last

3:41 PM ET The United States debut of super middleweight world titlist Billy Joe Saunders will come against Marcelo Esteban Coceres. For weeks, Saunders has been ticketed to make his first 168-pound title defense on the undercard of the six-round novelty cruiserweight fight between YouTube stars KSI and Logan Paul on Nov. 9 (DAZN) at