11:35 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Teofimo Lopez is on the comeback trail. The former lightweight champion and Mexico’s Pedro Campa have agreed to a deal for a 140-pound bout on Aug. 13, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The Top Rank Boxing on ESPN main event will mark Lopez’s junior welterweight debut and will likely take
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7:49 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Muhammad Ali. Floyd Mayweather. Manny Pacquiao. Likenesses of those fistic titans peered at Devin Haney from the walls of the Top Rank Gym, where the budding star prepared for the fight of his life just days before he set off for Melbourne, Australia. That’s where Haney will
5:30 AM ET World championship medallists, Amit Panghal and Shiva Thapa, claimed berths in the Indian boxing team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games (CWG) after emerging victorious in the trials, held in Patiala on Thursday. While Panghal, the 2019 world championship silver medallist, secured his place in the 51kg division, Thapa clinched the 63.5kg spot
3:23 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Danny Garcia is ready to chase a title in a third weight class. The former two-division champion has agreed to a deal with Jose Benavidez Jr. in a junior middleweight bout on July 30 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, sources tell ESPN. The PBC on Showtime main event
7:50 AM ET Boxing’s top stars are easy to spot. Canelo Alvarez, Tyson Fury and Errol Spence Jr. are just a few of the names that are recognized in and out of the sport. Gervonta “Tank” Davis is also entering that category after carrying another big event this past weekend virtually on his own. To
10:14 PM ET Tim Tszyu is a step closer to a unified mega-fight with Jermell Charlo after the WBO ordered the American to defend his belt against the undefeated Australian. Tszyu has been the WBO’s No.1 mandatory challenger at super-welterweight for more than a year, prompting the sanctioning body to intervene following Charlo’s victory over
Sydney boxing promoter Paul Nasari knew early on he had a good fighter in George Kambosos Jr. “George had his first professional fight on one of my cards, and then he won his NSW and Australian titles on [another one of my shows],” Nasari told ESPN. “And after he won his NSW title I said
3:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Anthony Joshua will be trained by Robert Garcia for his heavyweight title rematch with Oleksandr Usyk on July 23 in Saudi Arabia, sources told ESPN. Garcia, the boxing writers’ 2012 Trainer of the Year and a former 130-pound champion, coaches out of Robert Garcia Boxing Academy in Riverside, California, but
1:42 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Ryan Garcia and Javier Fortuna will meet in the ring after all. The fighters have agreed to a deal for a 135-pound fight on July 16 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on DAZN, sources told ESPN. Garcia and Fortuna were set to fight last July, but Garcia withdrew to
1:10 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN NEW YORK — Gervonta Davis wasn’t letting his hands go, and Rolando Romero took advantage. He stalked “Tank” Davis and even forced him to hold on at times after he connected with a couple of power shots. But, as he always does, Davis found a way with his devastating left
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