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12:29 PM ET As disappointed as junior welterweight Batyr Akhmedov was when he heard the scores for his vacant secondary world title bout against Mario Barrios on Saturday night’s Errol Spence Jr.-Shawn Porter undercard, it is worse now that he has viewed a video of the bout. Even after scoring knockdowns in the fourth and
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2:56 AM ET Joseph Parker is out of his scheduled bout with Dereck Chisora at the O2 Arena in London on Oct. 26, Eddie Hearn has confirmed. The New Zealander (26-2, 20 KOs) is suffering from illness, Matchroom Boxing promoter Hearn said. Hearn took to Twitter to announce the development, adding: “We are working on
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6:04 PM ET Bantamweight contender Joshua Greer Jr. will take on former world title challenger Antonio Nieves in his next fight. Top Rank announced Greer-Nieves as the co-feature on Tuesday for the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ show headlined by the Shakur Stevenson-Joet Gonzalez vacant featherweight world title fight on Oct. 26 (ESPN+, main card
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1:21 PM ET The International Boxing Hall of Fame, which in July reduced the wait for eligibility to three years, released the ballot for the 2020 election cycle and it is loaded with superstar fighters whose last fights were not only in 2014 but also 2015 and 2016. Leading the way for the 12 newcomers
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6:20 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 Golden Contract, a new eight-man elimination tournament, begins with its featherweight quarterfinals at the atmospheric York Hall in East London on Friday and will
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4:17 PM ET Welterweight contenders Radzhab Butaev and Alexander Besputin are headed for Monte Carlo when they meet for a vacant secondary world title. Promoter Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing, which does not promote either boxer, on Monday won the purse bid for the bout with a winning offer of $505,555 at the WBA offices in
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2:00 AM ET Steve KimESPN LOS ANGELES — It was a welterweight unification clash that won’t soon be forgotten. Errol Spence Jr. added the WBC belt to go along with his IBF title with his victory over Shawn Porter at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The scores read 116-111 twice for Spence, and 115-112 for
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1:41 AM ET Errol Spence Jr. unified two welterweight world titles with a split-decision victory over Shawn Porter on Saturday. Judges Steve Weisfeld and Ray Danseco had the fight for Spence 116-111 and judge Larry Hazzard had it for Porter 115-112. It was a back-and-forth bout and a clear leading candidate for fight of the
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