11:51 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.

3:23 PM ET Featherweight Shakur Stevenson, the 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist and one of boxing’s elite prospects, will face Jessie Cris Rosales in a 10-round on Jan. 18, Top Rank announced Thursday. The fight, at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, will serve as the co-feature of the Top Rank Boxing

Jan 3, 2019 Steve KimESPN There’s already a full slate of fights on the boxing schedule as the calendar turns to 2019, but just how many of them are the ones fans are truly yearning for? The reality is that most contemporary matchups are ones that are made out of convenience more than public demand.

9:20 AM ET The start of 2019 in British boxing is amazingly bare with so few confirmed fights, so few actual dates and venues announced and at the same time dozens of crucial fights under secret negotiation. The clandestine deals are rampant and there will be a frantic flurry of announcements in the next two

7:24 AM ET Former IBF super-middleweight champion James DeGale will face British rival Chris Eubank Jr on Feb. 23 at London’s O2 Arena. DeGale (25-2-1, 15 KOs) vacated his IBF belt in June last year in order to pursue bigger fights, rather than facing a mandatory. The pair held talks over a fight in July,

5:05 PM ET Former unified junior featherweight world champion Guillermo Rigondeaux’s first fight in more than a year will come against journeyman Giovanni Delgado on Jan.13, Premier Boxing Champions announced on Wednesday. Rigondeaux will face Delgado in a 10-round junior featherweight bout on the undercard of super middleweight world titlist Jose Uzcategui’s mandatory defense against

1:54 PM ET For many years Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino legend, was one of the most fearsome punchers in boxing. He destroyed quality fighters such as Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya, Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera as he moved up the scale to win world titles in a record eight weight

3:25 PM ET Floyd Mayweather’s KO victory in Round 1 over kickboxing sensation Tenshin Nasukawa in a boxing exhibition on New Year’s Eve in Saitama, Japan, was as easy as it was effective. Mayweather dropped Nasukawa multiple times in the first of a scheduled three rounds to earn $9 million, according to the “Pretty Boy.”

11:38 AM ET All along Floyd Mayweather insisted his three-round welterweight boxing exhibition fight with Japanese kickboxing star Tenshin Nasukawa was supposed to be “all about entertainment.” Mayweather preached that line throughout the unusual build up to the bout that was first on with no rules announced, then off when Mayweather suddenly backed out and

12:00 AM ET Nick Parkisnon Floyd Mayweather dusted off the boxing gloves to deliver a boxing masterclass and stop Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in the first round on New Year’s Eve. The former five-division world champion — now 41 — floored Nasukawa three times before the end of the first round of a three-round welterweight