Twenty-three years ago today, Bernard Hopkins defeated Felix Trinidad to become undisputed middleweight champion and, at 36 years old, give new impetus to his professional boxing life. For Trinidad, who had swept all before him at welterweight and junior middleweight, it was the beginning of the end of what would be a Hall-of-Fame career. Hopkins’
By Mark Baldwin MAYBE I’ve been in denial all these years. Or have I just ignored the obvious and carried on regardless for my own convenience. I’ve never once seriously thought of questioning why I love boxing so much. There have been fleeting thoughts of trying to justify why I watch it. Why I write
Tuesday, Oct. 1 TrillerTV+, 8:00 pm ET, CountryBox: Where Music Meets Boxing. The boxing is the boxing. The music is Neon Union. Friday, Oct. 4 ESPN+, 5:00 am ET, Janibek Alimkhanuly vs Andrei Mikhailovich. For Janibek’s IBF middleweight title, but not the WBO. This is a very quick turnaround, getting bought at purse bid 31
THE EDWARDS brothers have never hidden how competitive they are, and over the years, there will have been a few rounds shared in the ring to decide who is the better fighter. Both are now nearing 10-year careers and both have become world champions in that time. After Charlie won the European bantamweight title on
How the fight started between Daniel Dubois and Anthony Joshua led to how the fight ended, according to Tony Bellew. Dubois came out looking to fight. Anthony Joshua came out looking to box. “There was no warm-up or feel-out period in the fight, it was just ‘come out and let my hands go,’” Bellew said
The drama surrounding the April 20 fight between Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia rolls on as Haney has now officially filed a lawsuit against Garcia for battery and fraud, as reported by TMZ. Although originally a big win for Garcia, it would later be revealed that Garcia tested positive for banned substance ostarine leading into
With a Monday negotiating deadline with four-division champion Terence Crawford arriving, Sebastian Fundora’s promoter is poised to submit a Premier Boxing Champions-backed bid to stage the bout within the 90-day window that the World Boxing Organization has ordered. Sampson Lewkowicz, the promoter for WBO/WBC junior-middleweight champion Fundora (21-1-1, 13 KOs), said Crawford representatives have not
Nick ParkinsonSep 28, 2024, 05:25 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Terri Harper produced a much-improved display to earn a unanimous points victory over Rhiannon Dixon for the WBO lightweight title and become a three-weight world champion on Saturday. Harper
TERRI Harper is now a three-weight world champion after defeating Rhiannon Dixon on points in Sheffield’s Park Community Arena. Dixon was making the first defence of her WBO lightweight title of what was expected to be the start of a lengthy run. Terri Harper proved otherwise. The judges totalled 97-93 (twice) and 96-94, all favouring
Alycia Baumgardner and Delfine Persoon fought to an unfortunate no-contest tonight in Georgia, with Baumgardner retaining her super featherweight championship due to the fight ending on a clash of heads in the fourth round. Baumgardner (15-1, 7 KO) hadn’t fought since July 2023, largely due to a failed drug test after her bout with Christina
By: Sean Crose “My hands have never hurt so bad after a fight,” Mikaela Mayer said Friday night after winning the WBO welterweight title off of Sandy Ryan in a high octane throwdown. Indeed, the fight was a banger. Mayer proved faster and more mobile early on, only to find herself getting tagged by defending
Sandy Ryan’s promoter Eddie Hearn said the New York Police Department has launched an investigation into the former WBO welterweight champion getting splashed with red paint as she left her hotel to defend her belt against Mikaela Mayer at Madison Square Garden Friday night. Hearn said police have secured the closed-circuit security footage of the
By Daniele D’Alessio BEING a professional boxer without a long-term deal with a big-time promoter is often a struggle. Unless you won a medal at the Olympic Games or had a stellar amateur career, the chances of signing such a contract are slim. So, the majority have no choice but to work their way up
Mikaela Mayer took the WBO welterweight title from Sandy Ryan in a fantastic action main event tonight in New York, winning the belt on majority decision scores over 10 rounds. One card came back even at 95-95, with Mayer taking the other two on scores of 96-94 and 97-93. Bad Left Hook unofficially scored the
By Joe Hughes WHAT a win for Daniel Dubois last weekend vs Anthony Joshua. Many picked Dubois to lose the fight, myself included, but he was dominant from the first round until the finish in the fifth. He puts himself near the top of the division as the IBF world champion and with a win
Maxi Hughes got back to winning ways on Friday night but had to work hard for his victory. Hughes lost a world title eliminator to William Zepeda in March and hasn’t boxed since. Without a date and desperate to stop the rust from accumulating, Hughes, 34, asked GBM’s Izzy Asif for a slot on Friday
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterSep 28, 2024, 12:07 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions English boxer Sandy Ryan accused Mikaela Mayer, her opponent in a title bout Friday night in New York, of orchestrating a pre-fight stunt in which Ryan was
By: Sean Crose It was without doubt a world class beatdown. The popular but not stellar Ryan Garcia thoroughly thrashed the highly skilled and lauded Devin Haney last spring in a pay per view upset that sent the boxing world reeling. Then word came of Garcia having the banned substance ostarine in his system around the
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