Aug 24, 2022 In honour of Women’s Month in South Africa, fan favourites Smangele Hadebe and Ellen Simwaka headline an all-female main fight card at ESPN Africa Boxing 20 in Johannesburg on Thursday August 25. The main event is a battle for the ABU Flyweight Title over 10 rounds between ‘Smash’ Hadebe (11-3-2) and Stumai

Aug 24, 2022 Pumeza Zinakile, who will referee the co-main event at ESPN Africa Boxing 20 on August 25, has gathered a following with her expressive, no-nonsense refereeing style, but her personality in the ring was borne out of a traumatic event earlier in her career. Zinakile, who has become known for shouting mom-like admonishments

10:34 PM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — George Kambosos Jr. hopes the referee will limit the amounting of “holding” in his rematch with Devin Haney on October 16th [AEST; Oct. 15 ET on ESPN Top Rank], saying he wants to give the fans a better fight than their first meeting from earlier this year. Kambosos surrendered

Aug 20, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN Oleksandr Usyk proved once again that he’s arguably one of the best fighters in the world with a gutsy victory over Anthony Joshua on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to retain his three heavyweight titles. Now, he’s only one belt short of being called the undisputed heavyweight champion — a

7:17 AM ET Tyson Fury is interested in a heavyweight unification bout against Oleksandr Usyk, his promoter Frank Warren said on Monday, despite the British fighter repeatedly saying he is retired from professional boxing. Usyk retained his WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight titles with a split-decision win over Anthony Joshua on Saturday, before calling out

2:25 PM ET Anthony Joshua has said he has the “hunger” to fight again and plans to return to the ring in December following a second straight loss to Oleksandr Usyk on Sunday. Usyk retained his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles with a split-decision win over Joshua, who fared better in the rematch

1:07 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Dmitry Bivol and Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez have agreed to a deal for a WBA light heavyweight title fight that will take place Nov. 5 in the United Arab Emirates, the organization announced. The rights to the fight were scheduled to be auctioned off at a purse bid on Sunday afternoon

4:29 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 Anthony Joshua’s career has recovered before from a world title defeat and it may do so again, but the former heavyweight champion will likely

12:27 AM ET Emanuel Navarrete looked like he was about to be in a fight. One shot to the body of Eduardo Baez ended any thought of that. It was a technically beautiful setup by Navarrete, who knocked out Baez in the sixth round to retain his WBO featherweight title and defend his belt for

Aug 20, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN Oleksandr Usyk retained his three heavyweight titles with a split-decision victory over Anthony Joshua in a rematch on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. One judge scored the bout for Joshua, 115-113, but was overruled by tallies of 115-113 and 116-112 in favor of Usyk, who defeated Joshua for a second