2:17 PM ET Former junior middleweight world titleholder Erislandy Lara is as known a commodity as there is in boxing, having had a long reign and having had several significant fights, including against Canelo Alvarez, Austin Trout, Alfredo Angulo and Paul Williams. And, of course, there is also perhaps Lara’s most famous fight, which was

4:31 PM ET Eusebio Pedroza, one of the greatest featherweight champions in boxing history, died from pancreatic cancer at home in Panama City, Panama, it was announced on Friday. He was 62. Pedroza, who boxed professionally from 1973 to 1992 and was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1999, had a remarkable

11:13 PM ET Donnie Nietes has vacated his junior bantamweight world title, with the move coming ahead of a purse bid scheduled on Thursday for his mandatory defense against Filipino countryman Aston Palicte. Nietes, with belts in four divisions, is among his country’s all-time best. He decided he wanted to have a more meaningful fight

6:45 PM ET In July 2010, eight months before Canelo Alvarez won his first world title as a 20-year-old junior middleweight, he was ringside in Las Vegas as a spectator at the lightweight championship rematch between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz. On that night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, in one of the

11:13 AM ET Steve KimESPN They say that as one door closes, another one opens. And as the door was slammed shut on an immediate rematch between WBC heavyweight titlist Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury, it may have put Luis Ortiz — who faces Christian Hammer on Saturday at the Barclay Center —

4:36 AM ET Former world champion and Olympic gold medalist James DeGale has announced his retirement from boxing. DeGale’s decision comes 10 years to the day since making his professional debut, but he has now decided to hang up the gloves after suffering a unanimous points defeat against Chris Eubank Jr. at the weekend. The

5:26 PM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia will make his mandatory defense against Dennis Hogan on April 13 at the Arena Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez told ESPN on Wednesday. The fight, which will be streamed on DAZN in the United States, was due to be put up

2:05 PM ET Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said on Wednesday that despite the decision for lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to pass on an immediate rematch with world titleholder Deontay Wilder that would have taken place this spring or early summer, the goal remains to make the fight for this fall. “I’m assuring you

11:24 AM ET Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions sent a cease-and-desist letter to Floyd Mayweather Jr., according to the Los Angeles Times, following Mayweather’s offer of $200,000 to super featherweight Ryan Garcia if he can beat one of his fighters; the offer is seen as one of many instances of tampering by Golden

12:30 AM ET The World Boxing Super Series second-season cruiserweight tournament will set up its final with the two semifinals taking place on the same card. Tournament organizers announced on Tuesday that the semifinal between former world titleholder Yunier Dorticos and Andrew Tabiti has been added to the card headlined by the other semifinal between