2:42 PM ET LAS VEGAS – Top Rank on Friday formally unveiled most of its loaded fall schedule of main events, which includes four consecutive weeks of world title bouts on ESPN or ESPN+. “This is a tremendous lineup of fights that Top Rank is bringing to ESPN and ESPN+ in the fall,” Arum said.
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1:17 PM 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 Middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez finally has an opponent to fight this fall, but it won’t be a title defense. Instead, Alvarez, who decided
8:49 AM ET LAS VEGAS — It seems Tyson Fury is trying to make up for lost time. The lineal heavyweight champion — the man, who beat the man, who beat the man, etc., regardless of belts — was idle for 31 months after outpointing Wladimir Klitschko in a huge upset to win three major
10:17 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Less than a month ago, junior featherweight world titleholder Emanuel Navarrete defended his belt, but in throwback fashion, he will be back in the ring Saturday night for another defense, this one against Juan Miguel Elorde. That sort of quick turnaround is generally unheard of in today’s era of
Sep 5, 2019 Steve KimESPN Ask Tyson Fury a question — any question — and he’ll answer it as bluntly as possible. It doesn’t matter the setting, the talkative heavyweight lineal champion never shies away from verbally letting his hands go. Back in June, Fury made his Las Vegas debut by stopping Tom Schwarz in
9:14 AM ET One evening long ago, as I peered at my Algebra 2 textbook, completely flummoxed, my father said, “If you can name every heavyweight champion of the world, in order, from John L. Sullivan to Sonny Liston, you should be able to memorize these formulas.” Dad made sense, but I couldn’t relate to
10:49 PM ET Unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez will be out of action for the rest of the year because of a left hand injury that required surgery combined with a packed fall schedule that left him without a date when he would able to return. Ramirez had surgery on his hand in
8:22 AM ET Heavyweight lineal champion Tyson Fury of England faces Sweden’s Otto Wallin in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday at 11 p.m. ET. The undercard will air at 7:30 p.m. ET, also on ESPN+. Fury (28-0-1, 20 KOs), 31, scored a
8:20 AM ET In 1959, Ingemar Johansson traveled to New York and upset Floyd Patterson to win the heavyweight championship, knocking him down an astonishing seven times en route to a third-round TKO victory at Yankee Stadium. Although Patterson regained the title by fifth-round knockout in an immediate rematch with Johansson and then knocked him
10:42 PM ET Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury sure knows how to entertain. When the British big man came to the ring for his Las Vegas debut on June 15 for what turned out to be a second-round knockout of then-undefeated Tom Schwarz, he did so wearing a black robe and hood to somber music