8:38 AM ET Anthony Joshua is “very likely” to scrap his world heavyweight title defence scheduled to take place at Wembley Stadium on April 13, promoter Eddie Hearn has said. WBA-WBO-IBF-IBO champion Joshua was due to step into the ring for the second bout in a two-fight deal at England’s national stadium this spring, but

4:49 PM ET Richard Commey, who won a vacant lightweight world title on Saturday night, has his next fight already signed for April 12, and it’s a big one, as long as his sore right hand is healthy. Commey is supposed to fight pound-for-pound king and two-belt lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko to unify their

10:23 PM ET The purse bid scheduled on Tuesday for the mandated rematch between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury has been postponed for one week. The sides have been negotiating the bout, but a purse bid had been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at WBC headquarters in Mexico City in the

6:08 PM ET When former three-division world titleholder Abner Mares withdrew last Wednesday from his shot at junior lightweight world titlist Gervonta Davis, he cited an elbow injury he had suffered in a sparring session as the reason. While Mares did indeed have discomfort in his right elbow, Mares has admitted that the real reason

2:28 PM ET Opening Bell: Kovalev reassessment FRISCO, Texas – As recently as 2016, Sergey Kovalev, then with three major light heavyweight world title belts and an impressive resume that included lopsided wins against Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal (twice), was viewed by most as an unstoppable force and one of boxing’s elite pound-for-pound talents.

3:32 AM ET Steve KimESPN It was an eventful night of fights on Super Bowl eve at the Star in Frisco, Texas, capped off by Sergey Kovalev regaining the WBO light heavyweight title by conclusively outboxing Eleider Alvarez over 12 rounds. So what did we find out on Saturday night? Kovalev is still a force

Jan 31, 2019 Former world titleholders Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and Humberto Soto will square off on Feb. 23 at the Municipal Auditorium Fausto Gutierrez Moreno in Soto’s adopted hometown of Tijuana, Mexico, in the main event of the first card promoted by Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing in Mexico. Rios and Soto, while long past

5:01 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Six months after Sergey Kovalev lost his light heavyweight world title by upset knockout to Eleider “Storm” Alvarez, he regained it in clear unanimous-decision fashion in the main event of the Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card Saturday night. Kovalev, who called the first loss “an accident” and said

1:36 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Lightweight Teofimo Lopez Jr., the dynamic 2018 ESPN prospect of the year, continued on Saturday night what he calls his “takeover” and his insistence that he will win a world title this year. Lopez destroyed former lightweight and junior lightweight world title challenger Diego Magdaleno by seventh-round knockout in