Boxing

3:15 PM ET The date and location is set for two more quarterfinal bouts in the World Boxing Super Series’ second-season cruiserweight tournament. Former world titlist Mairis Briedis will fight Noel Mikaelian (formerly known as Noel Gevor), and former world titlist Krzysztof Glowacki will square off with Maksim Vlasov in a tournament doubleheader on Nov.
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12:04 AM ET Former welterweight world titleholder Victor Ortiz, who is scheduled to headline a Premier Boxing Champions card on Sunday night, turned himself into the Oxnard (California) Police Department on Tuesday and was booked on three felony sexual assault charges. His bail was set at $100,000. Ortiz is scheduled to fight John Molina Jr.
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7:21 PM ET Former light heavyweight world champion Jean Pascal, who came out of a brief retirement in July, will seek his second win in a row as a cruiserweight. Pascal will face Gary Kopas in a 12-round all-Canadian fight on Nov. 9 at the Centre 200 in Sydney, Nova Scotia, promoter Yvon Michel announced
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12:55 PM ET Pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko has done so much in his brief but brilliant professional boxing career, including tying the record for fewest fights needed to win a world title (3) and setting the record for fewest fights needed to win titles in two divisions (7) and three divisions (12). Now lightweight world
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1:01 AM ET In an action-packed slugfest that will be a contender for fight of the year, Kosei Tanaka won a majority decision to take a flyweight world title from Japanese countryman Sho Kimura on Monday at the Takeda Teva Ocean Arena in Nagoya, Japan. Tanaka won 116-112 and 115-113 on two scorecards, while the
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8:51 PM ET The rematch between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin on Sept. 15 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas sold approximately 1.1 million pay-per-view buys, multiple industry sources have told ESPN. That means the fight, a razor-close majority decision victory for Alvarez (50-1-2, 34 KOs) to lift the unified middleweight world title from
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12:26 PM ET Opening Bell: Don’t get your hopes up Unified heavyweight world titlist Anthony Joshua did what he was supposed to do. He drew some 80,000 to Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday, put on a show, scored an exciting seventh-round knockout of Alexander Povetkin, retained his three major belts and kept alive the
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6:45 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 LONDON — Here are some thoughts of what we learned from WBA-IBF-WBO world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua’s seventh-round stoppage win over Alexander Povetkin at
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9:32 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 LONDON — Anthony Joshua has given Deontay Wilder a deadline of December to agree terms to face him on April 13. The WBA-IBF-WBO world
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