5:57 PM ET Unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua isn’t the only significant Matchroom Boxing fighter headed to the United States for his next bout. Also on the way are undisputed cruiserweight world champion and consensus 2018 fighter of the year Oleksandr Usyk and former welterweight world titlist Kell Brook, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn

2:43 PM ET Featherweight world titleholder Leo Santa Cruz has enjoyed a great deal of success. He’s won world titles in three weight classes, had major fights with Abner Mares and Carl Frampton — each of whom Santa Cruz faced twice — and he’s made several million dollars over the course of his career. But

12:02 PM ET Steve KimESPN Technically, while the main event on Saturday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles is the WBA featherweight title tilt between Leo Santa Cruz and Rafael Rivera, it is the co-feature between welterweights John Molina Jr. and Omar Figueroa Jr. that could steal the show. If you go by

5:18 PM ET Heavyweight Filip Hrgovic, one of the best prospects in boxing, signed a co-promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn on Thursday. Team Sauerland, which signed Hrgovic after he claimed a bronze medal for Croatia at the 2016 Rio Olympics, had been talking to various promoters to gauge their interest in a

4:12 PM ET Rob Brant certainly knows his way around the Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota, a venue in his home state where the St. Paul native has boxed 11 times in his 25 career fights. He knows where to park, where the dressing rooms are and where the news conference will be. He knows

12:20 PM ET WBA “regular” middleweight titleholder Rob Brant faces Khasan Baysangurov in a fight that will air live on ESPN in the United States at 9 p.m. ET on Friday from the Grand Casino in Hinckley, Minnesota. Brant (24-1, 16 KOs), of Minnesota, won the title by defeating Ryota Murata by unanimous decision in

12:02 AM ET Former two-time light heavyweight world title challenger Andrzej Fonfara has announced his retirement from boxing, withdrawing from a cruiserweight bout with Edwin Rodriguez in the process. The 31-year-old Fonfara (30-5, 18 KOs) was due to fight fellow former title challenger Rodriguez (30-2, 20 KOs) in the 10-round co-feature of a Premier Boxing

10:11 AM ET The deal is done and unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua is coming to the United States. Joshua, the British superstar, will make his American debut by defending his three major world title belts against top contender Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York in