Boxing

12:28 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LONDON — When they finally faced off for the first time after years of trading fighting words, Tyson Fury tickled Dillian Whyte with both hands as the pair of big men erupted in laughter. Until last week’s media conference call, Whyte refused to promote Saturday’s heavyweight title fight before 94,000-plus

10:28 AM ET Boxing management company MTK Global has announced that it will cease global operations, saying it has faced “unprecedented” levels of scrutiny since the United States’ decision to sanction alleged crime boss Daniel Kinahan. MTK Global was founded by Kinahan in 2012 — then called MGM — but he said he sold it

7:47 AM ET On Saturday, Errol Spence Jr. fought for the first time since undergoing surgery to repair a detached retina on his left eye. He looked better than ever in a TKO victory over Yordenis Ugas, which unified three of the four significant welterweight world titles. Spence punished Ugas, who suffered a broken orbital

7:00 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 In front of approximately 200 people, Dillian Whyte had his arm raised in victory. Inside the Chadwell St Mary Working Men’s Club, just 40

5:52 AM ET After Mzuvukile Magacwa had been shot in the leg, his femur held in place by shreds of skin, the boxer says he lay on the floor of his home and listened while his assailants debated whether or not to shoot him in the head. At the time, in 2018, ‘Old Bones’ was

2:56 AM ET Amir Khan said on Monday he had been robbed at gunpoint in London but that both he and his wife were unharmed in the incident. “Just had my watch taken off me at gunpoint in East London, Leyton,” Khan wrote on Twitter. “I crossed the road with Faryal [Makhdoom], luckily she was

2:14 AM ET Michael Zerafa says he can’t wait to put Issac Hardman “to sleep” after punches were thrown with their world title eliminator weigh-in descending into chaos. For the second time the pair had to be separated, after they also came to blows at a pre-fight media conference last month. “Pretty Boy” Zerafa and

11:00 AM ET Jake Paul, the YouTuber-turned-prizefighter, has already made a major splash in boxing inside the ring. But he continues to make waves out of it as well. Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) added a new member to its fighter roster Monday, signing top boxing prospect Ashton Sylve to a deal, Paul and his

1:37 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Yordenis Ugas will be sidelined for quite some time. Ugas, 35, suffered a fractured right orbital in the 10th-round TKO loss to Errol Spence Jr. during Saturday’s welterweight title unification. “I have a fracture in my eye and in the next few days the doctors will say how they will

1:42 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Errol Spence Jr. looked impressive in a 10th-round TKO victory over Yordenis Ugas to unify three of the four major welterweight world titles at AT&T Stadium on Saturday. Terence Crawford has the other and a fight between Spence and Crawford has been marinating for too long. Spence said after

12:45 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN ARLINGTON, Texas — Errol Spence Jr. was dazed as he peered around the ring looking for his mouthpiece. Yordenis Ugas sent it flying on Saturday after he connected with a brutal right hand in Round 6, before referee Laurence Cole slowly moved to halt the action to allow Spence to

7:03 PM ET Michael Rothstein Close ESPN Staff Writer Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Ben Baby Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN Staff Writer Previously a college football writer for The Dallas Morning News University of North Texas graduate WBC and IBF welterweight

6:11 PM 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 Conor Benn edged closer to the welterweight boxing elite with another display of his ruthless finishing in a two-round destruction of Chris van Heerden

6:52 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr.’s fight against Tyrone Spong, which Triller Fight Club announced would take place July 16 in Mexico City, will not proceed as planned. Ruiz, ESPN’s No. 5 heavyweight, apparently signed a contract to fight Luis Ortiz in a PBC heavyweight bout in late summer before

1:22 PM ET ARLINGTON, Tex. — Errol Spence Jr. flexed and grinned in front of a predominantly home crowd on Friday morning. In his first weigh-in since suffering a detached retina last year, Spence comfortably cleared the weight limit for Saturday’s welterweight unification title fight at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Spence came in at

7:53 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Errol Spence Jr. returns from a long layoff to face Yordenis Ugas in a unification fight Saturday night at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas (Showtime PPV, 9 p.m. ET). Spence was supposed to face Manny Pacquiao last year, but suffered a left eye injury a few days before and

7:45 AM ET Ismael Salas remembers the first time Yordenis Ugas caught his eye. Just three weeks after Ugas started training with Salas, he had a sparring session with Gabriel Rosado, one of boxing’s top action fighters. Until that moment six years ago, Salas had never seen Ugas, who was in the midst of an

6:27 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Andy Ruiz Jr. is set for yet another comeback, but in a twist, his next bout will be promoted by Triller, not PBC. The former unified heavyweight champion will meet ex-Glory Kickboxing champion Tyrone Spong in a 10-round Triller Fight Club pay-per-view bout on July 16 at the Plaza de