8:47 PM ET OMAHA, Neb. — Welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford and challenger Jose Benavidez Jr. started their fight a tad early. After both made weight Friday, they went nose-to-nose for a face-off, which was a bit too close for comfort for Benavidez, who gave Crawford a two-handed shove in the chest. Crawford responded by

3:20 PM ET OMAHA, Neb. — After Terence Crawford, one of boxing’s elite fighters, gave up the undisputed junior welterweight world title and moved up to welterweight, where he laid waste to Jeff Horn in a one-sided ninth-round knockout win in June to claim a belt in a third weight division, the pressing question was

1:27 AM ET Anthony Mundine says Jeff Horn’s trainer may get the ex-world boxing champion hurt if they pursue plans to earn a re-match with American Terence Crawford. Horn’s trainer Glenn Rushton revealed their camp was still seething over the way the Australian lost his WBO world welterweight belt to Crawford in June, insisting the

3:00 PM ET Faced with the likelihood of being stripped of his middleweight world title for testing positive for a banned performance-enhancing drug, Billy Joe Saunders on Thursday vacated the 160-pound belt. On Tuesday, the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission rejected Saunders’ application for a boxing license for the positive test for the powerful banned stimulant

12:40 PM ET With only four professional fights under his belt, Russian bantamweight Mikhail Aloyan has by far the least experience of any of the participants in the World Boxing Super Series tournaments, be it the two that took place in the recently competed first season or the three just getting started in the second

10:04 PM ET Former welterweight world titleholder Victor Ortiz pleaded not guilty Wednesday to sexual assault charges, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. Ortiz, 31, had turned himself in last month and was charged with forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and forcible digital penetration. A woman had first contacted police in March and

9:00 AM ET Boxing promoter Frank Warren says Billy Joe Saunders plans to sue the Massachusetts State Athletic Commission over his cancelled fight with Demetrius Andrade. Saunders was denied a boxing license by the organisation on Tuesday after failing a voluntary drugs test and will miss out on the chance to defend his WBO middleweight

10:04 PM ET Featherweight Shakur Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist and one of boxing’s elite prospects, said on Wednesday that he is just rolling with the punches of a last-minute opponent change for his fight on Saturday night. While a bout between British rivals Amir Khan and Kell Brook is inching toward the

6:33 PM ET The long-awaited showdown between British rivals and former world titleholders Amir Khan and Kell Brook is being looked at for early next year, but there is still work to do to make it reality, Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn, who promotes both boxers, told ESPN on Tuesday. Through his many ups and

11:14 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Looking back, he understands the shooter had been waiting for him. Maybe it was the same guy who torched his Mercedes earlier that spring. Or not. Either way, it was pushing midnight, and his girlfriend was doing the dishes. So Jose Benavidez Jr. decided to walk his pets that night,