1:27 PM ET Ryan Songalia LOS ANGELES — Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. met again Tuesday, though briefly, at Staples Center. Pacquiao was in attendance to take part in the Clippers’ Filipino Heritage Night festivities and Mayweather was courtside to watch the Clippers face the Hornets. Pacquiao was invited on court to throw t-shirts

2:11 PM ET Steve KimESPN With an increasing number of networks and online platforms investing millions in boxing, the business of the sport has never been so robust and vibrant. It’s also never been as divided as it is at this very moment. There are more ways to watch fights and view boxing content than

10:45 PM ET A deal for a fight between welterweight world titleholder and pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford and Amir Khan is close to being finalized, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum told ESPN on Tuesday night. “Everything looks good,” Arum said. “Hopefully, we’ll be able to make an announcement next week. It’s not done until it’s

9:47 PM ET The WBC, which has long been at the forefront of drug testing and fighter safety among boxing’s major sanctioning organizations, is stepping up its commitment to making sure fighters safely make weight. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman on Tuesday unveiled a series of initiatives the sanctioning body has instituted beyond its already long-established

4:42 PM ET Super middleweights Ronald Ellis and Deandre Ware will square off in the 10-round main event of a Feb. 1 tripleheader on Showtime’s “ShoBox: The New Generation,” the network announced on Tuesday. The card (10 p.m. ET/PT) will take place at the Main Street Armory in Rochester, New York. Ellis (15-0-2, 10 KOs),

12:07 PM ET Junior lightweight world titleholder Alberto Machado and junior featherweight world titlist Rey Vargas will defend their belts on the same card next month, Golden Boy Promotions announced Friday. Machado will make his third defense when he faces Andrew Cancio in the main event and Vargas will make his fourth defense against Franklin

On that note, fights between the best fighters from the Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions stables. Make some trades if necessary but stop depriving the fighters and the fans of many of the best fights. New announcing gigs for the great Jim Lampley and Roy Jones Jr. in the wake of HBO’s sad boxing

8:38 AM ET Anthony Joshua’s camp have so far had “no response” from Deontay Wilder’s representatives despite renewed efforts to set up a heavyweight unification fight, according to head of Matchroom Sport Barry Hearn. WBA-WBO-IBF champion Joshua has repeatedly stated that WBC titlist Wilder is his No. 1 target for his next fight, which is

8:50 PM ET Steve KimESPN Badou Jack (22-1, 13 KOs) faces Marcus Browne (22-0, 16 KOs) for the WBA interim title on January 19th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as the featured undercard bout on the Manny Pacquiao-Adrien Broner card. Jack and Browne, ranked first and second, respectively, in both the WBC and

4:48 PM ET Two days before Jarrett Hurd and Erislandy Lara were to meet in an April 7 junior middleweight world title unification fight at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, at the prefight press conference, Hurd uttered words that were prophetic. “There’s a storm coming,” said Hurd, predicting an exciting fight.