4:02 PM ET Steve KimESPN Amateur standout Duke Ragan has signed a multiyear promotional deal with Top Rank and will make his professional boxing debut on Aug. 22 in Las Vegas. Ragan will be co-promoted by Antonio Leonard Promotions. “This opportunity means the world to me,” said Ragan, a featherweight. “Since I didn’t go to
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9:16 PM ET Steve KimESPN The exhibition bout between boxing legends Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. will be pushed back from its Sept. 12 date to Nov. 28, according to a report by RingTV.com. The event, which is sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission and set to be held at Dignity Health Sports
1:42 AM ET Steve KimESPN Premier Boxing Champions announced its schedule for the rest of the year on Saturday night, highlighted by the return of Shawn Porter and a title defense for Erislandy Lara. Porter (30-3-1, 17 KOs), a former two-time welterweight titleholder, will face Sebastian Formella (22-0, 10 KOs) in an IBF and WBC
12:20 AM ET Steve KimESPN Jamal James captured the WBA interim welterweight title by defeating Thomas Dulorme by the scores of 115-113, 117-111 and 116-112, in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card Saturday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. It was a fast paced fight that saw both men have
10:59 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: Pete Hamill, legendary newspaperman, journalist and novelist, died Wednesday at the age of 85. In the spring of 1991, as a favor to the then-Metropolitan editor of the New York Post, I got a call from Pete Hamill. I was 28, full of a none-too-subtle ambition, and just
6:32 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 Terri Harper held on to her WBC world junior lightweight title in a first defense after an entertaining points draw with English rival Natasha
1:35 PM ET Steve KimESPN Jorge Linares has tested positive for the coronavirus and has been removed from his fight against Javier Fortuna on Aug. 28, according to his manager Jose De La Cruz. “He’s feeling OK,” said De La Cruz. “He’s got symptoms, he’s at the hospital, he can’t leave for 10 days. It’s
8:14 AM ET VITO MIELNICKI JR. WAS dripping sweat. On a steamy July morning in New Jersey, in the middle of the West Essex High School football field, the promising teenage boxer was about to receive his reward in the culmination of years of hard work. All those 4 a.m. alarms to get strength and