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While Top Rank has made its first two cards on June 9 and June 11 official as it returns to doing live boxing events without crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company is also busy putting together a slew of other fights for ESPN shows planned for the rest of June and July. One of those fights, which has ...

Starting in July, MTK Fight Night events are set to take place once a month for the foreseeable future and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ in association with Top Rank. Discussions are also currently ongoing with other broadcasters. Initial events will be held behind closed doors under the jurisdiction of the British Boxing Board of Control and will strictly ...

If Tyson Fury remains the WBC heavyweight champion and Dillian Whyte keeps winning, a Fury-Whyte fight must happen at some point. Whyte is the mandatory challenger for Fury’s title. Before the COVID-19 pandemic changed every boxer’s schedule, the WBC announced that Whyte would have to get that title shot by February 2021. Mauricio Sulaiman, the president of the WBC, told ...

Andre Ward was all of two years old at the time a teenaged Mike Tyson began his meteoric rise to heavyweight immortality. The legacy left behind by the one-time baddest man on the planet, however, is legendary enough for the former two-division world champion to have become well versed on the subject. “I was obviously a baby when Tyson was ...

There are nights in boxing, for the viewer, so vivid as to make every mention of them bring back a wave of emotion embedding them in the immediate. It feels like it just happened again because of the smile the memories bring to your face, or because the where you were when watching is instantly so vivid. For this author, ...

WBC, IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence is looking to get back in the mix with big fights. Spence was in the ring back in September, when he won a very tough twelve round decision over Shawn Porter to unify their welterweight titles at Staples Center in Los Angeles. He was on his way to a potential title defense against Danny ...

Former welterweight world champion Curtis Cokes, the first fighter from Dallas to win a world title and who would go on to become an International Boxing Hall of Famer, died of heart failure on Friday. He was 82. Born in Dallas on June 15, 1937, Cokes, who boxed from 1958 to 1972 and held the welterweight title from 1966 to ...

David Haye would prefer to express some optimism regarding rescheduling the Oleksandr Usyk-Dereck Chisora fight. Chisora’s manager just can’t see it happening anytime soon. Haye hasn’t discussed a potential date with promoter Eddie Hearn because they’ll need a crowd to attend the Usyk-Chisora card, which won’t be allowed in England for the foreseeable future. “At the moment, there’s no date,” ...

Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter produced one of the most fan-friendly fights of 2019. Porter predicts that a rematch would be even better. The former IBF/WBC welterweight champion isn’t sure if it’ll ever happen, but Porter would welcome a second shot at Spence whenever the unbeaten Spence is ready. Porter discussed a possible rematch with Spence during the newest ...

Gilbert Burns dominates Tyron Woodley to assert himself as a UFC welterweight contender Fresh off a win over compatriot and fellow Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expert Demian Maia, Brazil’s Gilbert Burns ran through former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley throughout the entirety of their five-round fight. Headlining the card broadcast on ESPN, Burns made it clear to see he is a true ...