9:53 PM ET Steve KimESPN LOS ANGELES — Oscar De La Hoya, founder of Golden Boy Promotions, said he was confident that a trilogy fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will happen. De La Hoya made the statement during a rare public appearance on Tuesday to announce the company’s Sept. 14 card that will

4:01 PM ET Fights involving a pair of boxers on the rise and two veterans seeking a notable win to push them closer to another title shot will highlight the undercard of the welterweight unification fight between Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter. Junior welterweight up-and-comers Mario Barrios and Batyr Akhmedov will meet for a

4:42 AM ET British super middleweight Billy Joe Saunders has signed with Matchroom Boxing. Matchroom, which is led by promoter Eddie Hearn, counts former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, Oleksandr Usyk and Dillian Whyte — who was at the centre of a doping controversy last month — among its fighters. Saunders last fought in May, defeating

4:04 PM ET Unified heavyweight world titleholder Andy Ruiz Jr. and former titlist Anthony Joshua were not in attendance but there will be plenty of time for them to discuss their Dec. 7 rematch in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Instead, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn and Omar Khalil, the managing partner of Skill Challenge Entertainment, the

11:51 AM ET Make no mistake: Featherweight Robeisy Ramirez’s loss in his professional debut was an abject disaster. There is no sugarcoating this train wreck. Ramirez, 25, was one of the most heralded fighters to turn pro in years. His fight Saturday in Philadelphia was designed to be a showcase, an absolutely nonthreatening fight. So

12:32 AM ET Steve KimESPN Vergil Ortiz continued his ascension as one of boxing’s young rising stars by stopping the experienced Antonio Orozco in the sixth round in front of his hometown fans in Grand Prairie, Texas on Saturday. This matchup for the 21-year-old Ortiz (14-0, 14 KOs) was considered a legitimate step up, given

12:40 AM ET Junior lightweight Jason Sosa relentlessly pounded Haskell Lydell Rhodes to the body and scored three knockdowns in a dominating seventh-round knockout victory in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card on Saturday at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia. Sosa, from nearby Camden, New Jersey, and the favorite of

9:30 AM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia knows the importance to Mexican fighters of boxing on the second weekend of September, which is Mexican Independence Day weekend and one of the biggest boxing dates of the year. With middleweight world champion and Mexican star Canelo Alvarez electing to move to a date late