11:58 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Super middleweight world titlist Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez made the move up to the light heavyweight division and turned in a dominating performance on Friday night at the Staples Center. Ramirez, who still holds the 168-pound belt he has defended five times, laid a beating on Tommy Karpency before Karpency’s

12:53 PM ET Former junior middleweight world titleholder Austin Trout and former title challenger Terrell Gausha would each like another opportunity at the belt but will have to go through each other to get closer to one. They will fight each other in a 10-round bout in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions

6:01 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Unified lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and former titlist and mandatory challenger Anthony Crolla both made weight with seeming ease on Thursday. They will square off in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card on Friday (ESPN+, 11 p.m. ET main card, 8 p.m. ET

8:32 AM ET Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko has always been vocal about the kinds of fights he wants: big ones. He wants to win as many belts in as many divisions as he can, and he wants title unification fights. In just 13 professional bouts, Lomachenko, a two-time Olympic gold medalist from Ukraine and viewed

9:41 PM ET At this point, it’s the only question worth asking: Who will win Friday night’s lightweight title bout between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Anthony Crolla at Staples Center in Los Angeles? Our experts make their picks. Dan RafaelESPN.com Lomachenko by decisionCrolla is a solid pro and former world titlist who has faced good opposition

8:48 PM ET LOS ANGELES — When pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko’s next lightweight title defense was being planned he thought it would be a three-belt unification fight with Richard Commey, who had won a vacant belt on Feb. 2. But when Commey injured his right hand during a second-round knockout of Isa Chaniev in the

12:43 PM ET Former middleweight world titleholder David Lemieux, who has had multiple fights canceled because of his issues making weight, will officially move up to super middleweight for his next bout against John Ryder, which Golden Boy Promotions announced on Wednesday along with the rest of the Canelo Alvarez-Daniel Jacobs undercard. The card, headlined

11:26 AM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian boxer Tamir Galanov has been banned for two years for doping. Galanov won a bronze medal at the 2017 world amateur championships and is Russia’s current national flyweight champion. Galanov tested positive for furosemide, a banned diuretic that can be used by boxers to make weight but

Apr 8, 2019 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 Former lightweight world titleholder Anthony Crolla’s nickname might be “Million Dollar,” but that is only because it rhymes. There is nothing flashy about Crolla,

1:38 PM ET Unified world lightweight champion and ESPN’s No.1 pound-for-pound fighter Vasiliy Lomachenko, of Ukraine, faces England’s Anthony Crolla in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Friday at 11 p.m. ET. The undercard will air at 8 p.m. ET, also on ESPN+.