Boxing

2:15 PM ET Former light heavyweight world champion Adonis Stevenson underwent emergency brain surgery following his knockout loss Saturday night and remains in a medically induced coma, his doctor confirmed Wednesday. “Mr. Stevenson underwent surgery on the night of Saturday to Sunday and has since been admitted to the intensive care unit,” Dr. Alexis Turgeon,
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5:25 PM ET The International Boxing Hall of Fame will make room for a Cobra, a Hawk and a Buddy this summer. Former welterweight and junior middleweight world champion Donald Curry, known as “The Lone Star Cobra,” Julian “The Hawk” Jackson, who won world titles at junior middleweight and middleweight, and James “Buddy” McGirt, who
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8:06 AM ET Steve KimESPN Jose Pedraza is tasked with one of the most difficult assignments in all of sports this weekend at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City: Figuring out a way to decipher Vasiliy Lomachenko. While this is a lightweight unification tilt, with Pedraza (25-1, 12 KO) coming
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8:51 PM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder forcefully said on Tuesday that he wants no other fight besides a rematch with lineal champion Tyson Fury in the wake of their epic draw. “It’s no secret that Joshua did not want this fight,” Tyson Fury said of countryman Anthony Joshua’s refusal to finalize a lucrative
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1:00 PM ET Unified women’s lightweight world titleholder Katie Taylor is headed stateside to defend her belts against Eva Wahlstrom, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced on Tuesday. The fight has been added to the undercard of unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez’s rise in weight to challenge Rocky Fielding for his secondary super middleweight
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8:40 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Long before the heavyweight world championship fight between titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury was made, Wilder’s team tried to finalize a deal for Wilder to face three-belt unified titlist Anthony Joshua for the undisputed crown. Wilder agreed to take a bad deal: a $15 million flat
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4:27 PM ET Welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford has been trying to land a fight with a big-name opponent and he just might get it for his next assignment, which is penciled in for March 23 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Top Rank, Crawford’s promoter, is negotiating the bout with Amir Khan, the
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8:34 PM ET Associated Press QUEBEC CITY — Canadian boxer Adonis Stevenson has been upgraded from critical to stable condition and remains in an induced coma Sunday after being knocked out Saturday night in his light heavyweight title fight. Boxing promoter Yvon Michel tweeted about the 41-year-old Stevenson’s condition. “The state of Adonis has gone
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3:59 AM ET Steve KimESPN In a decision that will forever be debated, WBC heavyweight titlist, Deontay Wilder retained his belt with a controversial draw versus the crafty, Tyson Fury on Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. While many believed Fury should have had his hands raised in victory, Robert Tapper had
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