Claressa Shields stood inside the ring in the middle of the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night, her eyes looking around the British crowd who had just watched her assert that she is the greatest female fighter of all time, and she started to get emotional. All that had happened, both in the ring … Read more
Claressa Shields will once again try to unify all four major women’s middleweight world titles when she faces Savannah Marshall in the main event of an all-women card at the O2 arena in London on Saturday (ESPN+, 2:30 p.m. ET). This is the first of two major boxing cards on ESPN+ on the day. Devin … Read more
Oct 10, 2022 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 Saturday’s undisputed middleweight world title fight against Claressa Shields will be the biggest moment of Savannah Marshall’s career — and she admits she may … Read more
COACHELLA, Calif. — Two flags fly atop a pole in front of a single-story home in the Coachella Valley. The Fundora family chose to live here, in the shadows of mountains encasing the horizon in every direction, because of the familiarity it offers and the peacefulness they can find. Those flags — they signify so … Read more
A unique football-versus-MMA matchup has been added to the Jake Paul vs. Anderson Silva undercard. Former NFL All-Pro running back Le’Veon Bell will face ex-UFC fighter Uriah Hall in a pro boxing match Oct. 29 in Glendale, Arizona. The four-round contest has been contracted at 195 pounds and neither man can be above 200 pounds … Read more
There will be more than the undisputed middleweight championship on the line when Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields fight at the O2 Arena in London next Saturday. The WBC has announced it has created the Elizabethan Belt to award to the winner of Shields-Marshall in honor of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Sept. 8. … Read more
The most anticipated matchup between welterweight champions Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford still isn’t finalized, but if/when it happens, will the winner be the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world? Canelo Alvarez and Tyson Fury will have something to say if Spence or Crawford can’t produce an impressive performance. In London on Saturday, middleweight … Read more
Junior welterweight Luis Quinones died Thursday night, five days after being hospitalized following a knockout loss to Jose Munoz at Coliseo Elias Chegwin in Barranquilla, Colombia. He was 25. Quinones’ brother, Leonardo Quinones, confirmed his passing on Facebook. “You went ahead of us my loving brother, now you are with your heavenly father, whom you … Read more
3:19 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Shakur Stevenson failed to make weight Thursday ahead of his fight vs. Robson Conceicao on Friday in Newark, New Jersey, and will be stripped of his two 130-pound titles, per championship fight rules governed by the WBO and WBC. The 25-year-old weighed 131.6 pounds and had two hours to shed … Read more
Canelo Alvarez closed out one of the biggest boxing rivalries of this generation with a unanimous decision victory over Gennadiy Golovkin in their trilogy fight to retain his super middleweight undisputed championship. But the victory wasn’t enough for Alvarez to move up in ESPN’s pound-for-pound rankings. Most of our panelists decided to keep Alvarez at … Read more