11:48 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Maurice Hooker, with a smile on his face the whole time, seemed as relaxed as could be without care in the world when asked for his feelings about defending his junior welterweight world title in his opponent’s hometown. Hooker has made the trip from his home in Dallas across
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11:08 AM ET Unretiring former two-division world titleholder Robert Guerrero, former heavyweight title challenger Chris Arreola, a strawweight world title fight and up-and-coming light heavyweight Anthony Yarde will highlight the non-televised undercard of the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight title fight on Dec. 1 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The main event and three
Nov 14, 2018 Jonathan SelvarajESPN Spectators walking into New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Stadium for the Women’s Boxing World Championships will be greeted by hoardings featuring the ambassador of the event – MC Mary Kom. Such is the incredible longevity of Mary Kom that this isn’t even the first time that the now 35-year old will
Nov 15, 2018 Jonathan SelvarajESPN As World Championships debuts go, Elisa Williams made a pretty successful one at the AIBA Worlds on Thursday. The Panamian boxer pulled out a wide 5-0 decision over another debutant, Hinami Yanai of Japan, early on the first day of competition at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi stadium. But it wasn’t
10:59 PM ET Steve KimESPN The World Boxing Association has suspended its “regular” heavyweight champion, Manuel Charr (31-4, 17 KO), for six months stemming from his positive drug tests prior to a scheduled bout against Fres Oquendo (37-8, 24 KO) on Sept. 29. Epitrenbolone and drostanolone, two anabolic steroids, were found in Charr’s system, leading
8:06 AM ET Steve KimESPN Abel Sanchez — who leads Alex Saucedo into battle this Friday night as he challenges WBO junior welterweight champion Maurice Hooker (24-0-3, 16 KO) — has a simple prerequisite for boxers who’d like for him to be their trainer. Lou Mesorana won’t be ringside as Alex Saucedo faces Maurice Hooker
8:26 PM ET Premier Boxing Champions and Fox, which announced a four-year rights deal in September, on Tuesday unveiled their first 10 cards — and the rest of their dates for the year — at a news conference at the Fox Studios in Los Angeles. In all, they announced 14 bouts through April that will
5:15 PM ET Longtime British rivals Amir Khan and Kell Brook have made one thing clear — they want to fight each other in what has been a much-anticipated match for years. Everything appears lined up for them: They are on roughly the same schedule, they are both now with the same promoter in Matchroom
3:41 PM ET The rematch between super middleweight world titleholder Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez and Jesse Hart was made official on Tuesday. They will meet in a sequel of their action-packed collision in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card on Dec. 14 (ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET) at the American Bank Center
3:31 PM ET Light heavyweight contender Sullivan Barrera has become a promotional free agent after his contract with Main Events expired and the company did not move to re-sign him. Barrera (22-2, 14 KOs), 36, a former amateur standout in Cuba who fights out of Miami, challenged for a world title in March but suffered