3:27 PM ET Junior bantamweight world champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, one of boxing’s pound-for-pound best, will make his mandatory defense against Juan Francisco Estrada in a much-anticipated rematch on April 26. They will return to the same location where they waged an action-packed fight on Feb. 24, 2018, The Forum in Inglewood, California, in the
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9:54 PM ET Super middleweight world titleholder Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez, who is moving up to the light heavyweight division, announced on Monday that he will head into his new weight class with a new trainer in Julian Chua. Ramirez not only has parted ways with Hector Zapari, who had trained him since he was 12
5:27 PM ET Featherweights Bryan De Gracia and Eduardo Ramirez will meet in world title elimination bout announced Monday that is a late addition to Saturday’s Brian Castano-Erislandy Lara card at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. De Gracia-Ramirez will open the Showtime-televised tripleheader (9 p.m. ET). The fight was added to the card when
9:22 AM ET LONDON — Anthony Joshua has vowed to reconstruct Jarrell Miller’s face and take on a new profession as his surgeon when they meet in New York on June 1. After last week’s bad-tempered press conference in New York where Miller pushed Joshua in the face-off, this was a more cordial affair in
2:58 PM ET The World Boxing Super Series, which has been hampered by serious financial issues and the prospect of having No. 1 junior welterweight seed Regis Prograis pull out of the tournament, has worked out a deal to keep him in and scheduled his semifinal bout against world titlist Kiryl Relikh. They will meet
1:35 AM ET If Anthony Dirrell indeed decides to retire from boxing, as he spoke openly about doing following his fight Saturday night, he can walk away with a world title, but one he obtained with mild controversy. Dirrell won a super middleweight world title for the second time as he claimed a 10-round technical
12:31 AM ET Steve KimESPN In a battle of former lightweight belt holders past their physical primes, Humberto Soto defeated Brandon Rios over 12 rounds by unanimous decision Saturday in Tijuana, Mexico. The scores were 119-111, 118-112 and 118-112 in the junior middleweight contest. Soto (69-9-2, 37 KOs), a grizzled veteran, showed at age 38
11:46 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 LONDON — When Chris Eubank Jr. fell off his chair before the post-fight press conference, it was about the only mistake he had made
7:41 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 LONDON — Chris Eubank Jr. erased doubts over whether he could beat elite-level super middleweights by scoring a unanimous-decision victory over James DeGale on
7:34 PM ET When Top Rank promoter Bob Arum announced that he had signed lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to a co-promotional deal with Frank Warren on Monday to bring his fights to ESPN platforms it changed the dynamic of the possibility for a rematch with world titleholder Deontay Wilder. Wilder and Fury were already