12:06 PM ET Steve KimESPN A rematch of one of the better heavyweight battles of recent years takes place between Dillian Whyte and Dereck Chisora at the O2 Arena in London, England on Saturday. For all the talk of how the recent bout between WBC champion Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury — which ended in

5:28 PM ET The Boxing Writers Association of America has finalized the ballot for its 2018 awards in eight categories. The nominees for the organization’s most prestigious award, the Sugar Ray Robinson Fighter of the Year award, are: • Undisputed cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs), who won the eight-man World Boxing Super

Dec 17, 2018 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 Josh Warrington believes Carl Frampton is past his best ahead of their world featherweight title fight Saturday. IBF champion Warrington was unimpressed by Frampton’s

8:18 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 Josh Warrington, once known as the boxing tooth fairy, hopes people will begin to believe in him as one of the world’s best featherweights

7:24 PM ET Manny Pacquiao tuned 40 on Monday, the same day his team announced the three fights that will serve as the televised undercard for his secondary welterweight title defense against Adrian Broner on Jan. 19 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The co-feature of the Showtime PPV card will be a vacant

4:10 PM ET Claressa Shields, the three-belt unified women’s middleweight world titleholder, added another significant line to her growing resume Monday when the Boxing Writers Association of America named her as the recipient of the 2018 Christy Martin Award for female fighter of the year. Shields, 23, of Flint, Michigan, won the second annual award

11:54 AM ET Jermall Charlo will defend his interim middleweight belt against late replacement Matt Korobov on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Premier Boxing Champions announced on Monday. Charlo was due to make his first defense against Willie Monroe Jr. in the main event of the PBC on Fox card, the

7:05 AM ET Carl Frampton has not had an alcoholic drink for nearly a year and he believes it will help him win a world title again when he fights Josh Warrington at the Manchester Arena on Saturday. The former world featherweight and super-bantamweight champion made a New Year’s resolution to stay teetotal and insists

12:52 AM ET NEW YORK — Saturday night was about more than what happened in the ring for Canelo Alvarez. Sure, if Rocky Fielding had pulled a Rocky Babloa and scored one of the biggest upsets in boxing history by defeating Alvarez it would have changed everything but that was never close to becoming a

12:30 AM ET NEW YORK — Canelo Alvarez kicked off the richest athlete contract in sports by doing just what was expected on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Heavy favorite Alvarez, the unified middleweight world champion and boxing’s biggest star, moved up one weight class and destroyed the game Rocky Fielding with a heavy