Boxing

6:50 PM ET Floyd Mayweather isn’t just planning for another fight with Manny Pacquiao in a rematch of their record-setting 2015 welterweight title unification bout, he is planning for a tuneup fight first — in Japan. Mayweather, who has been on a trip to Japan, on Saturday announced that he was coming out of yet
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7:15 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 Luke Campbell insists he feels no jealousy towards fellow 2012 Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua as the heavyweight world champion prepares for another high-profile
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12:27 AM ET Super middleweight contender Chris Eubank Jr. will face JJ McDonagh in the reserve match for the World Boxing Super Series super middleweight tournament final on Sept. 28 at The Indoor Sports Hall at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, WBSS officials announced Tuesday night. Eubank-McDonagh is a scheduled 10-round fight
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1:49 PM ET World middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders has been charged with misconduct by the British Boxing Board of Control [BBBofC] following an explicit social media post. In a video posted on Instagram, the WBO belt holder is seen in his car, offering a woman drugs in exchange for a sexual act. Saunders is
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1:51 AM ET Teddy Atlas is returning to the gym to train a fighter again. Atlas told ESPN that he has accepted an offer to train interim light heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Gvozdyk for his shot at world champion Adonis Stevenson in a fight scheduled for Dec. 1 in Quebec City. It wasn’t an easy decision
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8:01 PM ET Enzo Calzaghe — who had no previous experience in boxing, yet trained his son, Joe Calzaghe, to world titles in two divisions and an undefeated record — has died, the family announced on Monday. He was 69. No cause of death was announced, but the family said in a statement, “The family
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12:50 PM ET Opening Bell: Be careful what you wish for Throughout the lead-up to the rematch between Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez for GGG’s unified middleweight world title in the year’s biggest fight, Golovkin trainer Abel Sanchez criticized the way Alvarez fought in their first fight, a massively controversial draw last September. Alvarez ran,
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12:49 PM ET LAS VEGAS — The biggest day in boxing this year and the biggest in 12 months began as many other big days the sport has had over the past 12 years: with Floyd Mayweather dominating the headlines. The problem was Mayweather wasn’t fighting Saturday. He’s retired, hasn’t fought in over a year
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9:53 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Jaime Munguia retained his junior middleweight world title for the second time as he easily disposed of Brandon Cook in a third-round knockout victory on Saturday night on the Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez II undercard at T-Mobile Arena. Munguia hurt Cook with a left to the body in the opening
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