6:07 PM ET Junior welterweight undisputed champion Josh Taylor returns to the ring for the first time since winning all the belts in an upset victory over Jose Ramirez in May 2021, to face Jack Catterall in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing card at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday

2:08 AM ET Sibusiso Zingange claimed the South African Junior Lightweight belt at Africa Boxing on Feb. 24, beating four-time defending champion Phila Mpontshane by unanimous decision over 12 rounds. It wasn’t the only title bout of the night though, as South Africa’s Smangele Hadebe dominated from start to finish to beat Tanzania’s Halima Vunjabei

5:31 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, plans to take up arms to defend against Russia’s invasion, which began in the early hours Thursday. “It’s already a bloody war,” Klitschko, a Hall of Fame boxer, said Thursday on ITV’s “Good Morning Britain.” “… I don’t have

10:00 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 Jack Catterall might be the lesser-known name as he prepares to fight Scotland’s undisputed world champion Josh Taylor on Saturday, but the challenger has

7:48 PM ET Terri Harper will need a new opponent for her return to the ring March 12. The former WBC junior lightweight champion made the decision to move to lightweight and was set to face American veteran Heather Hardy. But Hardy posted to Twitter on Wednesday that she is pulling out of the fight

8:10 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 Josh Taylor owns all the world titles at junior welterweight, but he insists he is hungry for more as he targets the welterweight division

7:51 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Josh Taylor returns home to Scotland to make his first title defense as boxing’s undisputed junior welterweight champion of the world at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow (Saturday on ESPN+, 2 p.m. ET). Taylor (18-0, 13 KOs) faces undefeated Englishman Jack Catterall (26-0, 13 KOs), who previously stepped aside

1:12 AM ET NEW YORK — Amanda Serrano is preparing for the biggest fight of her life and at the same time she has also begun to take steps for the next part of her career. Serrano is putting the finishing touches on signing her first client as a boxing manager, Nicole Ocasio, in conjunction

6:56 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Bantamweight titleholder John Riel Casimero has been accused of sexual abuse, according to a Feb. 11 complaint filed by the Women and Children Protection Desk in Taguig City, Philippines. The complaint says the 33-year-old inappropriately touched a 17-year-old girl while she was sleeping in his hotel room on June 7,

11:05 AM ET Savannah Marshall’s defense of her WBO middleweight title will have to wait a few more weeks. BOXXER, which is putting on Marshall’s fight against Femke Hermans, announced Tuesday that Marshall will now fight Hermans on April 2 in Newcastle, England, after being previously scheduled for March 12. This is the latest move