3:47 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall have agreed to terms for a Feb. 4 rematch in the U.K. for Taylor’s WBO junior welterweight championship, sources told ESPN. Taylor (19-0, 13 KOs) retained his four 140-pound titles via a controversial split decision when he faced Catterall in February in his native Scotland.

Oct 17, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN David Benavidez and Jose Uzcategui are finalizing a deal for a super middleweight bout slated for January, sources told ESPN. The pair were set to square off in November 2021 before Uzcategui tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug rEPO (recombinant erythropoietin), a synthetic version of EPO. Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs)

12:36 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Devin Haney picked up in the rematch where he had left off, with another unanimous-decision victory over George Kambosos to retain the undisputed lightweight championship Sunday afternoon at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia. Haney, who also routed Kambosos in June in Australia, won via scores of 118-110, 119-109 and

12:43 AM ET Former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder marked his much-anticipated return to the boxing ring with a thunderous knockout punch that stopped Robert Helenius in the opening round of their bout at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Saturday night. A punch like that one declared Wilder’s intentions to

1:25 AM ET Mike Coppinger Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Devin Haney showed once again this weekend why he deserves pound-for-pound consideration, while Deontay Wilder’s right hand was back in action, finishing Robert Helenius in Round

Oct 15, 2022 Mike Coppinger Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate Devin Haney picked up where he left off in the rematch with a second unanimous-decision victory over George Kambosos Jr. to retain the undisputed lightweight championship

Oct 15, 2022 Alycia Baumgardner was saying for months she would dominate Mikaela Mayer. While that didn’t happen, Baumgardner did do enough on Saturday in London to become the unified junior lightweight champion. In a fight that could have gone either way after months of trash talking between the two, Baumgardner won on two of

6:42 PM ET Claressa Shields jumped up and down in the ring, having gone to the United Kingdom to fight a British fighter and still come out of the toughest fight of her career as the undisputed middleweight champion of the world. Again. Shields beat Savannah Marshall by unanimous decision, 97-93, 96-94, 96-94, in London

11:41 AM ET UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) is investigating Conor Benn after he failed a drugs test ahead of his highly anticipated fight with Chris Eubank Jr., the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) said on Friday. The bout between welterweight Benn and super middleweight Eubank Jr., set at a catchweight of 157 pounds, was called

7:47 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Deontay Wilder returns to the ring on Saturday for the first time since his knockout loss to Tyson Fury in their trilogy fight a year ago. He’ll face Robert Helenius at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York (Fox PPV, 9 p.m. ET). Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) possesses a powerful