Apr 23, 2022 LONDON — Tyson Fury announced himself as “The King.” He sat on a throne. And then he got it all done against challenger Dillian Whyte in six rounds and left undefeated with the British boxing public in his grasp. It was a job done just as he said it would go down.

12:54 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury returns to England to defend his WBC and lineal heavyweight titles against longtime mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte at legendary Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday (ESPN+ PPV, 2 p.m. ET with prelims at 1 p.m. on ESPN+). A U.K. record of 94,000 fans for a boxing event is

Apr 23, 2022 Heavyweights Joe Joyce and Joseph Parker are set to face each other in July, according to promoter Frank Warren. Warren announced that negotiations were in the final stages for a fight this summer. The promoter revealed the plans during an interview with BT Sport in the buildup to Tyson Fury’s bout with

10:36 AM ET The fighters have weighed in and all that’s left to do is make the walk and fight. WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury defends his belt against mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London (ESPN+ PPV, 2 p.m. ET with prelims at 1 p.m. on ESPN+). Fury (31-0-1,

10:40 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LONDON — Tyson Fury sauntered to the scale to Gala’s “Freed from Desire,” and was greeted by a raucous crowd of Englishmen who welcomed The Gypsy King on Friday ahead of his first-ever title fight on British soil. The heavyweight champion disrobed before he fired a big right hand into

6:47 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN MORECAMBE, UK — Even as a child, Tyson Fury never envisioned an occupation other than his present one: heavyweight champion of the world. In his marvelously grandiose way of thinking — something required of a real heavyweight champ, which is to say, a fighter for whom mythology and marketing are

7:50 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Tyson Fury defends the WBC and lineal heavyweight championship against mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte on Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London (ESPN+ PPV, 2 p.m. ET) in front of an expected 94,000 fans. Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs), 33, of Manchester, England, is coming off two impressive stoppages of Deontay

6:10 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Mike Tyson was involved in a physical altercation on an airplane Wednesday night, with an edited video obtained by TMZ Sports showing the Hall of Famer striking a passenger seated behind him. A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department told ESPN on Thursday that at approximately 10:06 p.m. local

4:01 AM ET Former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton has announced a shock return to boxing at the age of 43. Hatton said in a social media post that he plans to make the return in his hometown of Manchester in a bout against Marco Antonio Barrera of Mexico on July 2. The British fighter

7:52 PM ET Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has been accused of sexual assault in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles against him and his tequila brand, Casa Mexico, according to court documents obtained by ESPN. A woman who is a former employee of Casa Mexico alleges in the filing that De