3:45 PM ET While unified middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez is set to get back to business by fighting secondary super middleweight world titlist Rocky Fielding on Dec. 15 armed with a brand new record-breaking contract with sports streaming service DAZN, his rival and former champion, Gennady Golovkin, is taking his time figuring out his

10:42 PM ET The world title fight between Filipino boxer Randy Petalcorin and Nicaragua’s Felix Alvarado is set for October 29 at the Solaire Resort and Casino in Parañaque City. The match will be for the vacant IBF world light flyweight title and is being promoted by ESPN5 Boxing, MP Promotions, Sanman Promotions and Peter

4:26 AM ET As the old saying goes, as one door closes, another one opens. Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions stable of fighters, including Canelo Alvarez, the unified middleweight world champion and boxing’s biggest superstar, have long been stalwarts of HBO. But with the premium cable network’s recent announcement that after 45 years

7:22 PM ET Former two-time world title challenger Miguel Marriaga will go for his second win in a row when he takes on Jose Estrella in a featherweight fight on Nov. 3 on a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card, Top Rank announced on Tuesday. The scheduled eight-round fight will be on the undercard of

8:48 PM ET Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced ages ago that he would put on his third “Monte Carlo Boxing Bonanza” on Nov. 24 at the famed Le Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco, but on Monday he announced the fights that will be featured on the show. Headlining the card, which will stream live

8:39 PM ET Light heavyweight world titleholder Artur Beterbiev will defend his title for the second time when he takes on contender Joe Smith Jr. later this year, their promoters told ESPN on Monday. The fight comes as a surprise because Smith had been close to finalizing a deal to challenge Dmitry Bivol for his

3:50 PM ET Opening Bell: Here we go again We’ve been through it all before — the agony and misery as fans of watching big fights get made (or not made in some cases) wait and hope for something to happen. The seemingly never-ending talks for Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao were horrendous

2:19 PM ET Deontay Wilder has issued an apology to the man inside the mascot costume he punched while appearing on an ESPN show. World heavyweight champion Wilder was encouraged to demonstrate his punching power by striking the mascot on ESPN Nacion. Heavyweights Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury nearly came to blows Wednesday while wrapping

11:34 PM ET OMAHA, Neb. — Blue-chip prospect featherweight prospect Shakur Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, has been asking for Top Rank to step up his competition. He got his wish and looked sensational on Saturday night at the CHI Health Center. Stevenson scored three knockdowns in a spectacular first-round knockout performance against

1:54 AM ET OMAHA, Neb. — As welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford continued to take the trash talk, disdain and knockout threats from Jose Benavidez Jr., he had one constant response: Wait for the fight, and he would shut him up. That’s just what Crawford did — and in style — as he outclassed Benavidez