Boxing

9:14 PM ET The mandatory fight between junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia and Dennis Hogan, agreed to last month for April 13 at the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, has been finalized, Golden Boy Promotions announced Thursday. The fight, which will stream in the United States on DAZN, will be the fourth defense for
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Mar 13, 2019 Ireland’s featherweight prospect Michael Conlan returns to New York to face Mexico’s Ruben Garcia Hernandez in the main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. The undercard will air at 3 p.m. ET, with the main card scheduled for 6 p.m.
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1:15 AM ET Former two-division world titleholders Jessie Vargas and Humberto Soto will meet in a 10-round junior middleweight fight on April 26, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced Wednesday. The fight, which will be at contract weight of 151 pounds, has been added to the DAZN card at The Forum in Inglewood, California, that
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11:06 PM ET ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Errol Spence Jr. and Mikey Garcia, two of boxing’s top fighters pound-for-pound, are low-key guys not known for a lot of talk, preferring to let their fists do the talking in the ring. But while their respect for each other was mostly on display Wednesday at their final prefight
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9:49 PM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder, who has been vocal about his desire to make bigger money and to have bigger fights, could be on his way. Wilder, along with managers Shelly Finkel and Al Haymon and promoter Lou DiBella, met with DAZN executive chairman John Skipper and members of his staff in
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9:24 PM ET Junior lightweight Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez, one of Mexico’s most highly touted up-and-coming boxers, has signed a co-promotional agreement with Golden Boy Promotions, CEO Oscar De La Hoya announced Tuesday. Hernandez, who also is co-promoted by Promociones del Pueblo, one of Mexico’s leading promoters, will make his United States debut in his first
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12:29 PM ET Associated Press HUMBLE, Texas — A Texas medical examiner confirms that Freeda George Foreman, the daughter of former heavyweight champion George Foreman, died by suicide. Emergency crews found the 42-year-old woman while responding to a suburban Houston home Friday. The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences listed her official cause of death
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1:05 AM ET It took former unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin several months to make a decision on which offer to accept from a broadcaster when he became a free agent with the expiration of his HBO deal last fall. There was never a question that Golovkin would earn boatloads of money regardless of
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