Boxing

10:35 PM ET Lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is in Las Vegas to fight, but by the look of things Wednesday, he might as well have been auditioning for his own stage show. The larger-than-life Fury, who defends his crown against Germany’s unbeaten Tom Schwarz on Saturday (ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET, with preliminaries on ESPN2
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8:54 PM ET Junior bantamweight world titleholder Khalid Yafai will make his mandatory defense against Norbelto Jimenez on June 29 at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced Wednesday. The bout will be part of the DAZN-streamed card headlined by middleweight world titlist Demetrius Andrade defending against Maciej
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8:40 PM ET Claressa Shields will aim for another slice of boxing history in her next fight. Shields, the only American boxer, male or female, to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals, has already unified two belts at super middleweight before dropping down to middleweight, where she unified all four major belts to become the undisputed
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9:19 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN LAS VEGAS, NV. – For centuries now, fighting has been the Fury family business. A clan of Irish Travellers, the Furys were fighters – the bare-knuckle variety, mostly – the way other families were cobblers or farmers or blacksmiths. They’ve fought in mineshafts and quarries, in pubs and on street
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7:11 PM ET Former unified cruiserweight world titleholder Murat Gassiev’s debut in the heavyweight division will come against Joey Dawejko, who served as former unified heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua’s main sparring partner going into Joshua’s massive upset loss to Andy Ruiz Jr., Matchroom Boxing announced on Monday. Gassiev will face Dawejko in a 10-round bout
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2:22 PM ET Featherweight Shakur Stevenson, one of boxing’s fastest-rising prospects, is getting the homecoming fight he has wanted. Stevenson will take on Hairon Socarras in the 10-round main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on July 13 (ESPN and ESPN Deportes, 10:30 p.m. with preliminaries streaming on ESPN+ beginning at 7
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9:14 PM ET Former two-division world titleholder Zab Judah remained hospitalized at Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, New York, on Sunday after suffering bleeding on his brain during an 11th-round knockout loss to Cletus Seldin on Friday night. “[Judah is] awake, communicating with his family and doctors and making progress,” Star Boxing promoter Joe DeGuardia
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