9:57 PM ET NEW YORK — Heavyweight contender Adam Kownacki, with his legion of Polish fans decked out in the red and white of their flag and going mad for his every move, rewarded them with a punishing second-round knockout of Gerald Washington on Saturday night. The Poland-born, Brooklyn-based Kownacki, who could be a close

10:44 AM ET Former light heavyweight world champion Adonis Stevenson, who suffered a catastrophic brain injury in a knockout loss on Dec. 1, has begun to walk with assistance and speak, according to Simone “Sisi” God, Stevenson’s girlfriend and the mother of his daughter. “Last month, I disclosed that Adonis had woken up and was

4:21 PM ET Welterweight world titleholder Shawn Porter’s mandatory defense against Yordenis Ugas on March 9 is on the move and the undercard is also set. The fight, initially announced for an undermined venue in Las Vegas, has been moved to the Dignity Health Sports Park (formerly the StubHub Center), in Carson, California, Premier Boxing

1:41 PM ET As frustrating as it was for welterweight world titlist Keith Thurman to be sidelined for the past 22 months because of injuries, and as hopeless as he sometimes felt, there were also moments of good humor. Throughout his layoff, Thurman, known as “One Time” because of his ability to end a fight

12:14 PM ET Associated Press UVALDE, Texas — Police say a 12-year-old boy has been charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a boxer at the victim’s South Texas home. Uvalde police said Thursday that the boy is charged in the slaying of John Duane VanMeter and is being held at a juvenile

6:32 PM ET Junior lightweight world titlist Tevin Farmer traveled to Billy Dib’s turf in Australia, where he won a vacant world title last summer. For his third defense, Farmer will be the one who gets to have a world title fight at home. Farmer will defend his 130-pound belt against Ireland’s Jono Carroll on

1:37 PM ET Featherweight world titleholder Leo Santa Cruz has a new opponent for his third defense: Rafael “Big Bang” Rivera. Santa Cruz (35-1-1, 19 KOs), 30, of Los Angeles, was scheduled to fight Miguel Flores in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on Feb. 16 (Fox, 8 p.m. ET) at the

4:16 PM ET Steve KimESPN As Jaime Munguia makes the third defense of his WBO junior middleweight title against Takeshi Inoue (13-0-1, 7 KOs) Saturday night at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, a familiar face will be leading him into battle. Robert Alcazar, for years the lead trainer of Hall of Famer Oscar De

10:14 PM ET Manny Pacquiao can still draw a pay-per-view audience. Pacquiao’s dominant unanimous decision victory over Adrien Broner to retain his secondary welterweight world title for the first time Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas generated a robust 400,000 buys on Showtime PPV, a source with knowledge of the

7:05 PM ET Despite suffering one of the most horrendous cuts in recent ring history, former two-division world titlist Badou Jack laughed it off a few days later. “It might not look pretty, but I’m a fighter not a model,” Jack said on a call with a few boxing reporters to discuss his gruesome injury