6:30 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 Victory over England’s Tony Bellew on Saturday will not only boost Oleksandr Usyk’s profile, it will also take him a step closer to a

5:50 PM ET Lightweight Teofimo Lopez Jr., one of the elite prospects in boxing, has been pleading with his promoter, Top Rank, to step up the level of his competition, and it has agreed to do so. Lopez will take on the most notable opponent of his career when he fights Mason Menard in a

3:15 PM ET Former welterweight world titleholder Kell Brook’s return to the ring on Dec. 8, which follows a layoff because of an ankle injury, will come against Michael Zerafa, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced on Monday. The 12-round junior middleweight bout will headline a card at Sheffield Arena in Brook’s hometown of Sheffield,

12:38 AM ET In the lead-up to their fight, Miguel Berchelt and Miguel “Mickey” Roman excitedly talked about producing the kind of battle on Saturday night that would go down in Mexican boxing lore alongside revered fights involving their famed countrymen Erik Morales, Marco Antonio Barrera and Juan Manuel Marquez. And just as they promised,

9:47 PM ET It was a triumphant occasion for Nonito Donaire, who captured the WBA bantamweight title and moved on to the semifinals of the World Boxing Super Series by defeating Ryan Burnett by fifth-round TKO at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, on Saturday. But the fight’s conclusion was certainly anticlimactic as Burnett (19-1,

6:45 PM 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 Whatever the outcome next Saturday, Tony Bellew is hoping for a slugfest when he takes on undisputed cruiserweight king Oleksandr Usyk in order to

10:04 AM ET Associated Press MOSCOW — An Uzbek businessman who has been accused of ties to organized crime was elected president of the amateur boxing federation on Saturday, putting the sport on a collision course with the International Olympic Committee. The IOC criticized Gafur Rakhimov’s bid to become head of AIBA, and it has

The WBO took care of several pieces of business at its annual convention, which ended on Friday in Panama City, Panama. The sanctioning body ordered some mandatory title bouts as well as title elimination fights meant to produce mandatory world title challengers. Here’s a look at the moves that were made: The fight between former

8:59 PM ET Rene Alvarado and Carlos Morales will meet in a junior lightweight world title elimination fight on Dec. 8, Golden Boy Promotions announced on Friday. The bout will headline a “Golden Boy Fight Night” card on Facebook Watch at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. Alvarado (29-8, 20 KOs), 29, of

1:08 PM ET Standing nowhere near each other at a recent press event conducting interviews about their upcoming fight, junior lightweight world titleholder Miguel Berchelt and mandatory challenger Miguel “Mickey” Roman had an identical take on what their showdown would look like. “It’s going to be memorable, like Erik Morales-Marco Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez.