5:02 PM ET Junior featherweight world titlist Rey Vargas’ mandatory defense against interim titlist Tomoki Kameda has been finalized. The fight will take place July 13 (DAZN) at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, Golden Boy Promotions announced on Thursday. Vargas (33-0, 22 KOs), 28, of Mexico, who is coming off a one-sided

4:09 PM ET Heavyweight contender Adam Kownacki will face three-time world title challenger Chris Arreola in a battle of brawlers on Aug. 3, Premier Boxing Champions announced Thursday. The 12-round fight will headline a PBC card (Fox and Fox Deportes, 8 p.m. ET) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where Kownacki, a native of Poland who

10:35 PM ET Monday morning quarterbacking, perhaps, but former unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin said he was not all that surprised that unheralded Andy Ruiz Jr. defeated Anthony Joshua last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Ruiz authored one of boxing’s greatest upsets when he knocked Joshua down four times and

6:16 PM ET Undefeated junior welterweight world titleholders Jose Ramirez and Maurice Hooker, both of whom have been pressing their handlers for a major fight, have one. Ramirez and Hooker will meet to unify their 140-pound world titles on July 27 (DAZN) after a deal was finalized on Wednesday. They will meet at the 7,000-seat

9:25 AM ET Steve KimESPN As WBO featherweight champion Oscar Valdez prepares to face the undefeated Jason Sanchez on Saturday at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada, his days as a 126-pounder are numbered, regardless of the result. “I am struggling a little more to make weight and definitely my plans are to move

5:08 AM ET Anthony Joshua has denied reports he suffered a panic attack before his defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr., admitting he will “have to take my loss like a man”. The former unified world heavyweight champion suffered an enormous upset at Madison Square Garden Saturday night when unheralded Mexican Ruiz knocked him out in

3:43 PM ET Lightweight Teofimo Lopez, the 2018 ESPN Prospect of the Year, and junior welterweight Maxim Dadashev, also one of boxing’s top rising talents, will have the chance to earn world title opportunities by winning their next fight. Lopez will fight Masayoshi Nakatani in a 135-pound world title elimination bout in the main event

2:20 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Anthony Joshua’s promoter says a rematch will take place between the British fighter and new world heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr. Eddie Hearn says on Twitter that the contracted rematch clause was triggered Tuesday following talks with Joshua, his management team and his trainer, Rob McCracken. Hearn says

6:12 PM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Tony Harrison has suffered an ankle injury, forcing him to withdraw from his upcoming rematch with Jermell Charlo, Premier Boxing Champions announced Monday. Harrison and Charlo were due to meet on June 23 in the main event of a PBC on Fox card at the Mandalay Bay Events

2:55 PM ET Opening Bell: Joshua-Ruiz autopsy NEW YORK — On an unforgettable night, Andy Ruiz pulled the gargantuan upset and turned the heavyweight division and boxing on its head with his stunning, shocking, utterly unexpected knockout victory over Anthony Joshua to take his three major world titles on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. It