11:49 AM ET Steve KimESPN WBC junior lightweight champion Miguel Berchelt of Mexico faces countryman Francisco Vargas Saturday night at the Convention Center in Tucson, Arizona, on ESPN (10 p.m. ET), in a rematch of their 2017 title bout. The first time around, Berchelt (35-1, 31 KOs) won the title from Vargas (25-1-2, 18 KOs)

3:51 AM ET Associated Press GOLD COAST, Australia — The head of the international boxing federation has criticized IOC president Thomas Bach’s comments that Olympic officials could organize the Tokyo 2020 boxing tournament if the sport’s federation can’t get its affairs in order. Bach said last weekend that the IOC wants the sport at next

5:56 PM ET The heavyweight debut of cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk will have to wait. Usyk, the consensus 2018 fighter of the year, suffered a torn right biceps on Monday during a training session, forcing him to withdraw from his first fight at heavyweight, manager Egis Klimas told ESPN on Tuesday. Usyk was scheduled

10:17 PM ET Former junior welterweight world titleholder Chris Algieri will fight Tommy Coyle in a 10-round bout on the undercard of the fight between unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr., Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has announced. The card is scheduled for June 1 (DAZN) at Madison Square Garden in

9:16 AM 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 Former unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin’s recent parting with longtime trainer Abel Sanchez due to a dispute over compensation meant GGG was

4:34 PM ET Opening Bell: The complete Canelo LAS VEGAS — It’s a measure of a top fighter when he can win against high-quality opponent — and do so without any controversy — on a night when he is perhaps not at his very best. That was the case with Canelo Alvarez, who unified three

LAS VEGAS — Reaffirming his status as the unified middleweight champion of the world, Canelo Alvarez defeated Daniel Jacobs by unanimous decision Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. With the victory, Canelo added a third title to his already vast collection of belts. Let’s break down the biggest questions that came from Saturday’s result. While Canelo

Apr 30, 2019 Steve KimESPN Former unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin is set to make his 2019 debut against Steve Rolls on June 8 at Madison Square Garden in New York. But who is Steve Rolls? And why is he facing Golovkin? The late Bert Sugar might have joked that Rolls isn’t even a household

11:54 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Vergil Ortiz Jr. continued to show why he is widely regarded as one of the best prospects in boxing on Saturday night. Ortiz destroyed Mauricio Herrera in the third round of the co-feature of the Canelo Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs middleweight title unification fight at T-Mobile Arena. Herrera had never previously

1:21 AM ET Artur Beterbiev (14-0) strengthened his status as one of the world’s top light heavyweights and a worthy foe for Sergey Kovalev with a fifth-round stoppage of Radivoje Kalajdzic (24-2) in the main event of the Top Rank card in Stockton, California, which aired on ESPN on Saturday night. It was Beterbiev’s 14th