11:32 PM ET The first thing Caleb Plant would see every morning when he woke up and the last thing he would see each night before going to sleep was a giant photo of an IBF world title belt that he had affixed to the ceiling over his bed. That is how focused he was

3:54 PM ET Former junior lightweight world titlist Francisco Vargas will have a chance to regain the belt from the man who took it from him, Miguel Berchelt. Mexican countrymen Berchelt and Vargas will meet in a rematch on March 23 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, in the main event of a Top Rank

6:30 AM ET Lightweight Devin Haney and featherweight Ruben Villa, two of ESPN.com’s top 15 boxing prospects, cruised to lopsided unanimous decisions against previously undefeated opponents expected to provide competition on Friday night at StageWorks in Shreveport, Louisiana. Headlining on Showtime’s “ShoBox: The New Generation,” Haney (21-0, 13 KOs) dropped Xolisani Ndongeni (25-1, 13 KOs)

5:18 PM ET Welterweight world titlist and pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford and former unified junior welterweight titleholder Amir Khan are scheduled to appear at a news conference on Tuesday at a London hotel to announce they will meet this spring. Top Rank, Crawford’s promoter, sent out a media advisory on Friday afternoon saying that “WBO

2:16 PM ET The opportunity for super middleweight contender Caleb Plant to fight for a world title has been a long time coming. Plant earned the mandatory title shot with a one-sided unanimous decision victory over Rogelio “Porky” Medina in their title elimination fight last February and he was supposed to challenge 168-pound titlist Jose

8:38 AM 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 Tyson Fury — and not Anthony Joshua — will fight Deontay Wilder at a U.S. venue in the first half of 2019, promoter Frank

5:26 PM ET Adrien Broner has won world titles in four weight classes from junior lightweight to welterweight, but his three defeats, all by decision, each came when he stepped up to face the best opponents of his career: Mikey Garcia, Shawn Porter and Marcos Maidana. But with an upset victory against legendary eight-division world

3:52 PM ET Ryan Songalia LOS ANGELES – What was supposed to be a joint media day on Wednesday for Manny Pacquiao and Adrien Broner at the Wild Card Boxing gym turned into a mad scramble for reporters when Broner abruptly announced he would be holding his session separately on the other side of town

10:18 PM ET The time is near for undisputed cruiserweight champion and 2018 ESPN.com fighter of the year Oleksandr Usyk to make a decision on what comes next for him, and it is not necessarily the move up to heavyweight that most expected. After Usyk, the 2012 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist for Ukraine, won the

6:53 PM ET As two-division world titleholder Badou Jack prepares for his next fight, he can’t help but think of the opponent from his last fight, former light heavyweight world champion Adonis Stevenson, who remains hospitalized following a catastrophic brain injury suffered in a fight last month. On May 19, in Toronto, Jack challenged then-champion