12:51 AM ET BOSTON — Tevin Farmer, with a massive speed and skill advantage, retained his junior lightweight world title for the first time with a one-sided, fifth-round destruction of James Tennyson on the Demetrius Andrade-Walter Kautondokwa undercard Saturday night at TD Garden. Farmer found a home early and often for his left hand, while

1:28 AM ET BOSTON — Demetrius Andrade was facing the ultimate unknown opponent in Walter Kautondokwa, but he figured him out quickly and had no issues. Andrade scored four knockdowns and cruised to a blowout decision to win a vacant middleweight world title against the late replacement before 6,874 on Saturday night at the TD

11:41 AM ET BOSTON — Throughout his 10-year professional career, major fights had eluded Demetrius Andrade until he landed a significant one as the mandatory challenger to middleweight world titleholder Billy Joe Saunders. Andrade was excited for the fight, excited that his new promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing, had worked out a deal to

2:40 AM ET Former heavyweight world titlist Joseph Parker, aiming to end a two-fight losing streak, has an opponent for his homecoming fight on Dec. 15 at Horncastle Arena in Christchurch, New Zealand. Parker will face Alexander Flores, a Roy Jones Jr.-promoted fighter, Duco Events announced Thursday. Flores (17-1-1, 15 KOs) 28, of Rowland Heights,

1:30 AM ET Jason Quigley emerged still undefeated after a grueling 10-round middleweight bout with Freddy Hernandez on Thursday via unanimous decision, perhaps the toughest fight of his professional career. The spirited bout highlighted a Golden Boy on ESPN card at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. Quigley, 29, of County Donegal, Ireland,

8:01 PM ET Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino legend who has not boxed in the United States since 2016 because of an eight-figure debt to the IRS, plans to return to the U.S. to defend his secondary welterweight world title against Adrien Broner in January. Pacquiao made the announcement Thursday during an appearance at a news

3:18 PM ET Middleweight contender Rob Brant learned a hard lesson last October, when he moved up to the super middleweight division to participate in the World Boxing Super Series and was humbled in a one-sided decision loss to aging former light heavyweight titlist Juergen Braehmer in Germany. “I learned if I don’t do everything

Oct 18, 2018 WBO “regular” world titleholder Ryota Murata of Japan faces Rob Brant in a fight that will air live on ESPN+ in the United States at 10:30 p.m. ET on Saturday from the Park Theater at Park MGM in Las Vegas, Nevada. Murata won the title with a TKO victory in the rematch

12:44 PM ET Former cruiserweight world titlist Yunier Dorticos, known as “The KO Doctor,” was one of the participants in the first season of the World Boxing Super Series and he is back for the second season, hoping to advance deeper than he did last time. In the first season, Dorticos retained his title in

3:19 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 Tony Bellew insists Billy Joe Saunders — banned from making a world title defence this Saturday — is not a drugs cheat, telling ESPN