7:52 PM ET Light heavyweight world titleholder Dmitry Bivol has had a nice break since his one-sided unanimous decision over Joe Smith Jr. on March 9 in Verona, New York, and returned to training this week in Los Angeles. Bivol, who has made five title defenses, has no particular fight lined up said but his
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3:22 PM ET Junior bantamweight world champion Juan Francisco Estrada has not boxed in his hometown of Hermosillo, Mexico, since a nontitle fight in 2014, but that will change when he defends his belt against Dewayne Beamon on Aug. 24, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced Wednesday. The fight, which will headline a card on
8:51 AM ET Former junior featherweight title challenger James “Jazza” Dickens faces Nathaniel May in a 10-round featherweight battle in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at the Liverpool Olympia in Liverpool, England, on Friday at 3 p.m. ET. Dickens (26-3, 11 KOs) lost his only title shot to Guillermo Rigondeaux
10:07 PM ET Junior lightweight world titlist Tevin Farmer will continue his extraordinary run of activity with his fifth fight in 11 months. Farmer will make his fourth defense when he takes on mandatory challenger Guillaume Frenois on July 27 (DAZN) at the College Park Center in Arlington, Texas, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn made
http://fitnesseggs.com/2019/07/08/health-club-news-gympass-raises-300-million-in-new-funding/ Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. has invested in Gympass, just one of a number of rapidly growing tech companies, including ride-sharing company Uber Technologies Inc., that it recently has invested in. Corporate fitness startup Gympass, New York, has raised $300 million through a new funding partnership with SoftBank Group Corp., Tokyo, the companies announced on
6:47 PM ET The WBO has ruled that Mairis Briedis intentionally fouled Krzysztof Glowacki in their cruiserweight world title bout and that referee Robert Byrd made multiple errors in officiating the fight, but it acknowledged that it is powerless to overturn the decision to a no contest as sought by Glowacki in his formal protest.
9:15 AM ET Steve KimESPN Back in January, we compiled a list of fights we would like to see this year. After six months, some have been made, and some have been announced, but most are not even in the works. Here are our thoughts on the biggest fights we’d like to see in the
12:55 PM ET Steve KimESPN Nordine Oubaali successfully defended his WBC bantamweight title, dominating Arthur Villanueva with a sixth-round TKO victory Saturday in Astana, Kazakhstan. From the onset, the hard-nosed Oubaali (16-0, 12 KOs) took control of this bout against the challenger from the Philippines, steadily outworking his opponent and fighting with more vigor and
8:51 AM ET WBC bantamweight champion Nordine Oubaali defends his belt against Arthur Villanueva in the co-main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at the Barys Arena in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET. In the main event, junior middleweight power puncher Zhankosh Turarov faces Mauro Maximiliano Godoy in a 10-round