1:35 AM ET Before Robert Easter Jr. and Rances Barthelemy met for a vacant secondary lightweight world title on Saturday night, Easter predicted, “This fight is going to be a lot of action and I don’t think it’s going to make it to the final bell.” He was wrong on both counts, as the former
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12:22 AM ET Steve KimESPN Regis Prograis captured the WBA junior welterweight title by halting the normally durable Kiryl Relikh in six rounds Saturday night and advanced to the final of the World Boxing Super Series 140-pound tournament with a TKO victory at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana. Prograis (24-0, 20 KOs) got to work
7:07 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Daniel Dubois notched another knockout victim with a fourth-round win over Richard Lartey on Saturday. The unbeaten British heavyweight contender extended his unblemished professional
Apr 25, 2019 Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Daniel Dubois will face Richard Lartey in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card (Saturday, 3 p.m. ET) at the The SSE Arena in Wembley, England. Dubois (10-0, 9 KOs), of London, is a 21-year-old power puncher. He has gone the distance just once, a one-sided
1:39 AM ET Steve KimESPN INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Juan Francisco Estrada defeated Srisaket Sor Rungvisai by unanimous decision to capture the WBC junior bantamweight title Friday night at the Forum in a rematch of last year’s battle that Sor Rungvisai won by majority decision. All three judges scored the fight for Estrada, 116-112 and 115-113
12:00 AM ET Steve KimESPN INGLEWOOD, California — WBA junior featherweight world titlist Daniel Roman defeated IBF world titleholder TJ Doheny by majority decision to unify two belts Saturday night at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Roman sent Doheny to the canvas twice during the fight but had to work for all 12 rounds to
8:00 PM ET BRISBANE, Australia — Former world welterweight champion Jeff Horn says he would relish an opportunity to fight Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez and prove to everyone he is no one-fight-wonder. Horn (19-1-1, 13 KOs), 31, famously defeated Manny Pacquiao in 2017 to become top dog in the welterweight division, but it didn’t last
1:31 AM ET BANGKOK — Amit Panghal (52kg) picked up his second successive gold medal of the year, while Pooja Rani (81kg) finished on top among the women to bring an end to India’s phenomenal campaign in the Asian Boxing Championships here Friday. India ended the event with 13 medals — two gold, four silver
4:33 PM ET Junior lightweight Masayuki Ito traveled from Japan to the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, and won a vacant world title last July, and he will return to that location to make his second defense. Ito will take on 2012 U.S. Olympian Jamel Herring there in the main event of a Top
3:38 PM ET Mikey Garcia, who has won world titles in four weight divisions and is regarded as one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best, vacated his lightweight belt on Thursday. The WBC, whose title Garcia held, also announced that it has given Garcia the rare designation of “champion emeritus,” meaning that should Garcia decide to return