5:00 AM ET Michael Conlan has revealed he had a gun pulled on him while he was in Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games. Conlan (9-0, 6 KOs) was the world amateur champion at bantamweight coming into the 2016 Games but suffered a controversial defeat to Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin in the quarterfinals in

8:40 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Throughout the dealmaking process and the promotion of their fight, it is obvious that heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury like and respect each other. They don’t even deny it. But despite their positive feelings for each other, they are just days away from trying

12:00 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 Tyson Fury will try to become just the third British heavyweight to win a world title fight on American soil when he faces Deontay

10:08 PM ET BRISBANE, Australia — Anthony Mundine may be entering Friday night’s fight at Suncorp Stadium as a rank outsider, but the Australian boxing veteran insists not even a bare-knuckled Jeff Horn would be able to overcome him. Mundine (48-8-0) has always excelled in the trash-talking department and it was again on full display

8:07 PM ET A deal has been agreed to for the vacant junior bantamweight world title fight between Donnie Nietes and Kazuto Ioka, Tom Loeffler of 360 Promotions told ESPN on Tuesday night. Loeffler, who recently signed Ioka, said that while the fight is not yet signed, he, TLAROCK (the management company that represents Ioka)

10:43 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN LOS ANGELES — The bigger the fight, the more relentlessly produced is its prologue: tour, pressers, interviews, media days, an endless stream of snippets and bytes eventually blended into a video collage. No, it’s not the fight, merely a high-tech vaudeville, choreographed in the name of commerce. But it’s real.

1:46 PM ET The super middleweight fight between Mexican countrymen Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Alfredo Angulo, scheduled to take place Saturday at Staples Center in Los Angeles, was canceled Monday, Premier Boxing Champions announced. The scheduled 10-round fight was scheduled to air on Showtime as part of a telecast of preliminary bouts before the

2:17 PM ET Opening bell: Light heavyweight debate The light heavyweight division is one of the most interesting in boxing. It is loaded with talented fighters who make entertaining fights. And while there is no clear-cut No. 1 guy in the weight class, at least there is activity among the best, even if it seems

8:06 PM ET Former unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin, one of boxing’s biggest stars, will decide before the end of the year on his next broadcast partner, Golovkin promoter Tom Loeffler told ESPN on Sunday. Loeffler said Golovkin is being aggressively pursued by ESPN (in conjunction with its long-term deal with Top Rank) and

8:00 AM ET “DON’T DIE FOR your job, baby!” screams Deontay Wilder. A video crew member has unknowingly backed into the street while trying to get a shot of the champ. “Please don’t die for that money!” Wilder is surrounded by a small entourage of cameramen, associates and PR people as he walks a few