The fight is billed as “Hate Runs Deep,” and the feud between Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall has captured the imagination. More than 11,000 will pack the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England, for Saturday’s grudge match, which is two years in the making. The bad blood is legitimate. The two put hands on one
Mike Coppinger, ESPNMay 23, 2024, 01:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Star boxer Ryan Garcia’s B-sample returned an adverse finding for the banned substance ostarine, per a Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory report viewed by ESPN. The A-sample, which was collected the day before and the day of his upset win over Devin Haney
Congratulations on your new title. Now, fight this knockout machine. That’s what the IBF effectively said on Thursday, ordering its new junior lightweight titleholder Anthony Cacace of Northern Ireland to immediately begin negotiations with his mandatory title contender, Eduardo Nunez. The Matchroom-promoted Nunez (26-1, 26 KOs), of Mexico, is coming off a second-round TKO of
By: Sean Crose Ryan Garcia, who stunned the world last month by generally beating up lightweight kingpin Devin Haney in a career defining victory now finds himself in the spotlight for having had a banned substance in his system before the fight went down in Brooklyn. Weeks ago, an A-sample of a drug test Garcia
Following the news of Ryan Garcia’s B-sample also testing positive for banned substance Ostarine, both Devin and Bill Haney took to social media to publicly respond. First Devin would ridicule Garcia for a supposed test on a hair sample which showed no trace of banned substances. “Ryan & his team knew he would test positive
Nick ParkinsonMay 23, 2024, 07:52 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Jack Catterall was basking in what he assumed was the afterglow of victory following his undisputed junior welterweight title clash against Josh Taylor in February 2022. Catterall was being
Ryan Garcia’s B samples have both come back positive. Garcia’s VADA tests from the day before and the day of his April 20 fight with Devin Haney both tested positive for Ostarine and on Thursday it was confirmed that the B-samples, which were opened on Wednesday, were both also positive. What happens next will be
OF all the bizarre and shocking things Ryan Garcia did before, during and after his fight against Devin Haney last month, perhaps the least bizarre and shocking was the meetup he arranged with former American President Donald Trump during his post-fight victory lap. A natural meeting of minds, this union arrived before news broke that
A little over two years ago, Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall competed in one of the most controversial fights in recent memory, with Taylor getting split decision scores over Catterall in Glasgow, a decision bad enough — and in a big enough fight — that it sparked genuine disgust and outrage within the boxing world,
JOSH TAYLOR and JACK CATTERALL kept themselves calm and composed at today’s final press conference ahead of their rematch on Saturday at the First Direct Arena in Leeds. The rematch, two years in the making, is just a couple of days away. And while there was no verbal mud thrown or attempts to get physical
WHEN Joe Joyce and Derek Chisora were first linked it seemed a natural pairing and a sensible fight to make. It seemed a natural pairing and a sensible fight, one, because Joyce was on the way up and Chisora was on the way down, and two, because both men tended to absorb punishment in the
Andy Lee – the former WBO middleweight champion who is building a reputation as one of the best trainers in the sport – promises that his rising star, undefeated Irishman Paddy “The Real Deal” Donovan (13-0, 10 KOs), is not looking past his opponent this Saturday. Donovan meets former British lightweight champion Lewis “Sandman” Ritson
Nearly three years after parting ways with Top Rank, super lightweight contender Elvis Rodriguez has rejoined the promotion ahead of a June 29th return on the Teofimo Lopez vs Steve Claggett undercard. “It truly feels great to be back home. I have always felt like a Top Rank fighter,” Rodriguez said. “Top Rank made me
May 22, 2024, 12:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Joe Joyce and Derek Chisora will fight in London in July. James Fearn/Getty Images British heavyweights Joe Joyce and Derek Chisora will face off at London’s O2 Arena on July 27, Queensberry promotions announced on Wednesday. The pair have been on a collision course for some time,
Everybody loves an underdog story. Whatever the sport, there are few more engaging spectacles than watching a minnow put in a blood and guts, all-or-nothing effort to take advantage of a complacent, under-prepared favorite or cling on for an unlikely victory after riding their luck throughout a one-sided contest. That isn’t Lee Beard’s style. Having
Boxing usually has a fairly clear pound-for-pound ruler, but Naoya Inoue and Terence “Bud” Crawford have been in a battle for a good while now for that recognition. And now we have a third man who has unquestionably entered the conversation. With his win over Tyson Fury this past Saturday, Oleksandr Usyk became undisputed heavyweight
May 22, 2024, 08:01 AM ET Open Extended Reactions There’s a new No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, which doesn’t come as a surprise. Oleksandr Usyk‘s victory over Tyson Fury to become the first undisputed champion in the four-belt era, and first since Lennox Lewis held three belts in 2000, catapulted him to the top spot over
London heavyweights Joe Joyce and Derek Chisora will headline at The O2 on Saturday July 27 when the “Juggernaut” will be confronted by “War”. It is a domestic collision that appears to have been on the table for some time, with Joyce (16-2, 15 KOs), having been calling out the name of the veteran formerly