9:40 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez sat just a few feet from each other at Wednesday’s final news conference inside the KA Theater at the MGM Grand, but they might as well have been a million miles away from each other. There will be no shortage

3:57 PM ET Junior welterweight world titleholder Jose Ramirez’s second chance to make his first title defense is at hand. Ramirez, the Central California star, was gearing up to make his first defense against Danny O’Connor in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN card on July 7 at the Save Mart

10:25 AM ET When Bernard Hopkins, the legendary former undisputed middleweight world champion and former light heavyweight champion, who is now a partner in Golden Boy Promotions, takes his seat at ringside, he naturally roots for his company’s fighters to win. But Hopkins will have a special reason to root extra hard when he takes

11:06 PM ET Oscar De La Hoya has gone from Olympic gold medalist to six-division world boxing champion to Hall of Famer to head of his own promotional firm. Now he says he would consider a run for president of the United States. There will be no shortage of action when unified middleweight champion Gennady

2:34 PM ET One day after Manny Pacquiao threatened to sue Top Rank for failing to pay him money he claimed it owed him for the United States broadcast rights of his last fight, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum told ESPN on Tuesday the issue was being handled. The Philippines’ Pacquiao, 39, the only fighter

11:00 AM ET When Top Rank and ESPN announced their new seven-year rights deal in August that called for 54 live boxing events per year, one of the key elements was that Top Rank would secure American rights to 24 international cards annually to stream them on ESPN+. Top Rank has picked up cards from

2:22 PM ET Opening Bell: Porter proves point Shawn Porter won’t dazzle anyone with his speed or power. But there are few fighters around who are in better condition and who have gotten more out of their ability than him. He’s the ultimate grinder, who has learned well from his father/trainer Ken Porter and now

1:56 AM ET Junior bantamweight contender Juan Francisco Estrada badly wanted a knockout victory Saturday night, but he had to settle for a unanimous decision in his scheduled 12-round bout with Felipe Orucuta at the Forum in Inglewood, California. The judges scored it 118-110, 117-111 and 117-111 for Estrada. Orucuta (36-5, 30KOs) proved a much

2:00 AM ET NEW YORK — Conventional wisdom said Shawn Porter and Danny Garcia, both former welterweight world titleholders with massive experience against many of the best fighters in their division, were about as evenly matched as one could hope. Former junior welterweight world titleholder Amir Khan showed his speed and timing are still there

12:14 AM ET NEW YORK — Welterweight contender Yordenis Ugas won his eighth fight in a row and earned a mandatory world title opportunity as he easily outpointed Cesar Barrionuevo in a dreadful fight on Saturday night in the co-feature of the Shawn Porter-Danny Garcia card at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Ugas’ victory put him