Boxing

11:24 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Edgar Berlanga has agreed to terms on a two-fight plan with Top Rank, the boxer told ESPN on Thursday. The first bout comes Oct. 9 in Las Vegas against Marcelo Esteban Coceres, Berlanga said, in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing show on an ESPN platform that will

2:20 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Errol Spence Jr. suffered a retinal detachment/break in his left eye during sparring weeks before his scheduled fight with Manny Pacquiao, the 31-year-old unified welterweight champion told ESPN. During a session at the World Class Boxing Gym in downtown Dallas, Spence said, he felt something amiss, stopped the session and

7:00 AM ET Ryan Hockensmith THE GOLF CART is already moving when the driver, Ben Askren, waves his hand for me to get in. The tour of the Funky Farms ranch has begun. It’s a wild, rocky ride over 11 acres of property 20 miles east of Milwaukee. Funky Farms is tucked into a suburban

4:54 PM ET WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo was arrested Wednesday on felony robbery charges following an alleged dispute with a waitress over a bar tab. According to Texas court records, Charlo was booked on Wednesday on three counts of second-degree robbery stemming from an incident in July. Charlo posted bond for all three charges

1:12 PM ET Mike Rothstein The undercard of the Shakur Stevenson-Jamel Herring WBO 130-pound title fight has added some more intrigue. Nico Ali Walsh will have his second professional fight and Olympic silver medalist Duke Ragan will both be fighting in State Farm Arena on Oct. 23 against yet-to-be-named opponents, a source told ESPN. The

7:54 AM ET AMANDA SERRANO WAS in the place she feels most comfortable — a boxing gym — when a 6-year-old approached her. In the girl’s hands was a cell phone, and she wanted to show it off. The girl was the only one in the conversation with a phone of her own. Serrano has

7:44 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN David Benavidez’s fight with Jose Uzcategui has been rescheduled. The 168-pound bout is set for Nov. 13 at Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, a PBC on Showtime main event. The fight was originally slated for Aug. 28 before Benavidez tested positive for COVID-19. Benavidez, ESPN’s No. 3 super middleweight, will

3:03 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Terence Crawford is inching closer to the biggest fight of his career. After Top Rank and PBC failed to complete a deal for Crawford to defend his title against Shawn Porter by Friday’s deadline, the WBO ordered a purse bid Monday that will be held Sept. 2 where the rights

8:02 AM ET Manny Pacquiao has likely fought his last fight, and while it wasn’t viewed in this way heading into Saturday in Las Vegas, the bout against Yordenis Ugas may have been the passing-of-the-torch moment the welterweight division has desperately needed. Pacquiao will almost certainly step away from the sport to focus on his

3:48 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The Teofimo Lopez-George Kambosos soap opera appears to be reaching its conclusion. Triller’s Ryan Kavanaugh told ESPN he sent contracts on Monday to both Lopez and Kambosos for the undisputed lightweight title fight to take place Oct. 5 at New York’s Hulu Theater at MSG. “We’re really excited about it:

10:35 AM ET Sometimes the best thing for a narrative is a little disruption. On Saturday night in Las Vegas, one could argue Yordenis Ugas didn’t just play a spoiler role. He provided an intervention. Had the odds played out accordingly and Manny Pacquiao beat Ugas to regain the WBA “super” welterweight title, it would

7:42 PM ET A private plane carrying world champion boxer Gervonta Davis headed for Las Vegas aborted its takeoff out of Florida’s Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport on Saturday afternoon sometime before 2 ET. The plane, which was carrying between four and 10 passengers, experienced nose gear failure as it was heading down the runway, leading

1:06 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — This night was supposed to be a celebration, a culmination of all the great Manny Pacquiao has accomplished — a champion in eight divisions in four decades, a superstar the world over. Yordenis Ugas wasn’t here for the Pacquiao party, though — he was here for his

1:29 AM ET An opportunity to face a future Hall of Famer and one of boxing’s all-time pound-for-pound best doesn’t happen every day, and even less often does such a fight come together 11 days out. But Yordenis Ugas took that opportunity against Manny Pacquiao, and successfully defended his WBA welterweight world title on one

3:55 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Manny Pacquiao sits in the ring in front of the media, sunglasses covering his freshly stitched face. The shades help Pacquiao avoid detection of his battered eyes, but he can’t evade the question he knows is facing him; the question he perhaps can’t answer for himself. Is

7:43 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Manny Pacquiao and Yordenis Ugas fight for Ugas’ WBA “super” welterweight title in the main event of Saturday’s PPV card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Pacquiao (62-7-2, 39 KOs), 42, a senator in his home country of the Philippines, hasn’t fought since defeating Keith Thurman by

1:00 AM ET Manouk Akopyan LOS ANGELES — Filipino featherweight Mark Magsayo was starstruck the first time he met his idol Manny Pacquiao on the Philippines senate floor on Dec. 5, 2017. The moment occurred on his wife and manager Frances’ birthday and a week after he scored his 18th professional win. Pacquiao publicly praised

9:36 AM ET Manny Pacquiao will not guarantee that he will keep boxing after his upcoming bout with Yordenis Ugas, but he told ESPN that if he continues his career, he would like to fight Terence Crawford or Errol Spence Jr. “I don’t know if this is going to be my last [time in the