Boxing

9:50 PM ET Associated Press QUEBEC CITY, Quebec — Oleksandr Gvozdyk stopped Adonis Stevenson at 2:49 of the 11th round Saturday night to take the WBC light heavyweight title from the Canadian. Gvozdyk, from the Ukraine, improved to 16-0 with the victory at Videotron Centre. The 41-year-old Stevenson dropped to 29-2-1 with his first loss
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12:53 AM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury fought to a split-decision draw Saturday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles. The judges scored the bout 115-111 for Wilder, 114-110 for Fury and 113-113. Wilder, who retained his WBC heavyweight belt, knocked Fury down in Rounds 9 and 12. Wilder (40-0-1, 39
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2:28 PM ET On a Saturday highlighted by college football conference championship games, the heavyweight title fight between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury was generating the most buzz — and the biggest bets — around Las Vegas. MGM’s sportsbook reported taking a $170,000 bet on the favored Wilder at -170 odds, and Caesars Palace said
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8:48 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder was so animated and emotional during the traditional faceoff with lineal champion Tyson Fury that the two wound up scuffling at the end of the final prefight news conference Wednesday. But at Friday’s weigh-in outside the Los Angeles Convention Center, next to Staples Center,
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3:50 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder was so animated and emotional during the traditional faceoff with lineal champion Tyson Fury that the two wound up scuffling at the end of the final prefight news conference Wednesday. But at Friday’s weigh-in outside the Los Angeles Convention Center, next to Staples Center,
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9:07 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Junior lightweight world titleholder Gervonta Davis and former three-division titlist Abner Mares are nearing a deal that would see them meet in February in a Showtime-televised main event, Showtime Sports president Stephen Espinoza told ESPN on Thursday. Floyd Mayweather will repay more than $600,000 as part of a settlement
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7:43 PM ET ESPN News Services Floyd Mayweather agreed to repay more than $600,000 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he failed to disclose payments he received for promoting investments in digital-currency securities. The settlement of civil charges for violating rules on touting investments in so-called initial coin offerings,
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2:53 PM ET BRISBANE, Australia — A fight against Anthony Mundine would have been the furthest thing from Jeff Horn’s mind after he sensationally upset Manny Pacquiao to become the WBO world welterweight champion in July, 2017. Horn (18-1-1) put his name up in lights and suggested he could be one of the greatest fighters
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