Boxing

12:09 PM ET Featherweight prospect and two-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan, a popular draw in New York’s Irish community, will fight at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on St. Patrick’s Day weekend for the third year in a row, Top Rank made official on Wednesday. Conlan will take on Ruben Garcia Hernandez in
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3:44 PM ET Former middleweight world titlist Billy Joe Saunders had his six-month suspension for a failed drug tested lifted by the WBO and the sanctioning organization named him its 160-pound mandatory title challenger in a ruling it issued Tuesday. Despite a Round 1 TKO loss in his last bout and not much success as
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11:15 PM ET Manuel Charr, who holds a secondary heavyweight world title, had his suspension for a failed drug test lifted by the WBA and was ordered to make a mandatory defense against Fres Oquendo within 60 days, according to a resolution the sanctioning body issued on Monday. In November, the WBA suspended Charr for
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2:56 PM ET Opening Bell: What now, Pacquiao? LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao’s return to fight in the United States for the first time in 26 months went exactly how I and most expected it go. He easily outpointed the perennially underachieving Adrien Broner via unanimous decision on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden
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2:51 PM ET Manny Pacquiao suffered a scratched cornea in his left eye during his lopsided unanimous decision over Adrien Broner in defense of his secondary welterweight world title on Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The injury, which his team has deemed minor, did not, however, come from one of the
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1:50 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao vowed to show that in his first fight since turning 40 last month that he was still a force to be reckoned with in boxing. He is. While he might not be the overwhelming force he was in his electrifying prime, boxing’s only eight-division world champion showed
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1:10 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Marcus Browne, the younger, fresher man, took it to Badou Jack throughout the fight. Jack never found a rhythm and suffered a horrendous cut. The result: Browne claimed a one-sided unanimous decision and a vacant interim light heavyweight world title in the co-feature of the Manny Pacquiao-Adrien Broner card
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5:39 PM ET Former four-division world titlist Adrien Broner has always been confident, almost to the point of cockiness, going into his fights and nothing appears to have changed as he prepares for the biggest fight of his career. Broner challenges legendary eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao for his secondary welterweight belt on Saturday (Showtime
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Jan 16, 2019 Ryan Songalia LOS ANGELES — Manny Pacquiao was slipping around the floor outside the ring of the Wild Card Boxing club earlier this week, the result of downpours and a brand new pair of shoes which had not yet been broken in. “What size shoe are you?,” Pacquiao asked sparring partner Arnold
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