Boxing

4:27 PM ET Top Rank made no secret when it signed lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to a co-promotional deal with Frank Warren in February that Fury’s first fight of the agreement would take place in Las Vegas and on be broadcast on an ESPN platform. Now the specific venue and platform are official for
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The Poptoss Batting Tee is a revolutionary hitting aid that develops a player’s swing, hand-eye coordination and timing unlike anything else on the market. It’s also completely self-contained so there is nothing to replace, recharge, or plug in. It uses a pneumatic timer which is adjustable from 4-15 seconds to allow a player to load
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4:47 PM ET Steve KimESPN Junior bantamweight contender Aliu Bamidele Lasisi defeated Ricardo Blandon by unanimous decision in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Friday night. The bout provided some compelling moments, as both fighters hit the canvas as they battled through 12 tough-rounds.
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3:26 PM ET The heavyweight debut of cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk is set. Usyk, the 2018 consensus fighter of the year, will make the move up in weight to face battle-tested former heavyweight world title challenger Carlos Takam on May 25 (DAZN) at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Matchroom Boxing promoter
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3:24 PM ET The former promoter of welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford has been awarded a judgment of more than $500,000 in a lawsuit against Top Rank that stemmed from a dispute over the percentage of money he was owed for four Crawford title defenses. Judge John M. Gerrard of the U.S. federal court for
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11:52 AM ET Former junior featherweight world titlist Scott Quigg, now campaigning at junior lightweight and targeting a fight with titleholder Tevin Farmer, will take on Jayson Velez on April 26, Matchroom Boxing announced Thursday. Quigg-Velez will be part of the card headlined by the rematch between junior bantamweight world champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai and
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10:37 AM ET Lightweight world titleholder Richard Commey has been cleared to begin training again with his right hand with a unification fight against Vasiliy Lomachenko probable later in the year. On Feb. 2, Commey won a vacant 135-pound world title in his second opportunity, knocking down Isa Chaniev three times in a one-sided second-round
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