2:58 PM ET Claressa Shields told ESPN’s Myron Medcalf in a radio interview that she’s willing to fight Laila Ali and vowed to knock her out if they get into the ring. Shields, the unbeaten three-division world champion and the face of women’s boxing in the United States, was responding to comments made by Ali

2:30 AM ET Dan Rafael Close ESPN Senior Writer 2013 BWAA Nat Fleischer Award winner for excellence in boxing journalism ESPN.com boxing writer since 2005 Five years at USA Today Steve Kim LAS VEGAS — In what may go down as the biggest heavyweight fight of the past 20 years, Tyson Fury thoroughly dominated Deontay

12:44 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Tyson Fury, known as “The Gypsy King,” can now be known simply as the king. Fury dispensed with the skillful boxing that he was so successful with the first time he met Deontay Wilder and followed through with his stated plan to attack him, and attack him he did

11:24 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Rivals Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions, working together on Saturday night’s Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight championship rematch, have gotten additional business done during fight week, finalizing two more deals. They put the finishing touches on rescheduling unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez’s mandatory defense against PBC fighter

9:41 PM ET Junior middleweight world titlist Patrick Teixeira has signed an extension of his promotional agreement with Golden Boy Promotions, the company announced on Friday. “I am very happy to re-sign with Golden Boy,” Teixeira said. “Thanks to this great promotional company, I was able to achieve my dream of becoming a world champion,

7:43 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Hoping to avoid a repeat of the pushing and shoving that took place between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury at their final pre-fight news conference on Wednesday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission mandated that the big men would not be permitted to face off

1:20 PM ET LAS VEGAS – Laila Ali, considered by many to be the greatest female boxer of all time, said on Friday that she would entertain the possibility of exiting her more than decade in retirement to fight Claressa Shields, the unbeaten three-division world champion and the face of women’s boxing in the United

8:49 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Junior welterweight contender Subriel Matias won’t forget what happened seven months ago, but he also doesn’t plan to let it dictate the rest of his career. Last July 19, Matias, a big puncher from Puerto Rico, stopped then-unbeaten rising contender Maxim Dadashev in the 11th round in a 140-pound

4:35 PM ET The Nevada State Athletic Commission has banned Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury from engaging in a faceoff after they weigh-in for their heavyweight championship rematch Friday afternoon, Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN’s Dan Rafael on Thursday. “In my 25 years in boxing I’ve never heard of an administrative body stepping

8:08 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A 19-year-old former high school basketball player tries to walk on at the local community college when he learns his daughter will be born with spina bifida. She’ll need multiple surgeries, just for starters. He drops out of school and gets a job at Red Lobster. Then

8:52 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder made his walk to the stage first, and when lineal champion Tyson Fury joined him moments later all of the niceties and mutual respect they have shown each other throughout the build-up to their rematch was out the window. Instead, the two giants went

8:08 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A 19-year-old former high school basketball player tries to walk on at the local community college when he learns his daughter will be born with spina bifida. She’ll need multiple surgeries, just for starters. He drops out of school and gets a job at Red Lobster. Then

7:53 PM ET Steve KimESPN Middleweight world titleholder Gennadiy Golovkin has suffered a right calf injury that is likely to once again push back his mandatory defense against Kamil Szeremeta, sources told ESPN. Golovkin and his team have filed for an extension with the IBF, and the fight now will likely take place in May

7:00 AM ET Nestled among the trees in suburban Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in a building that looks like a long storage container, is a gym that serves as the home of the heavyweight champion of the world. Above a garage-style door hangs a sign that reads, “Parking space reserved for Mr. Wilder.” It’s an unexpected setting

8:35 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN LAS VEGAS — In the summer of 2010, a 21-year-old Irish Traveler showed up unannounced at the Kronk gym in Detroit and requested an audience with the renowned trainer Emanuel Steward. “Who are you?” the 6-foot-9 visitor was asked. “I’m the next heavyweight champion of the world,” Tyson Fury said.

7:13 PM ET Undefeated Tim Tszyu has opened as a considerable favourite to beat former world champion Jeff Horn in their much anticipated April 22nd super welterweight bout. 1 Related Tszyu (15-0-0), son of Australian boxing legend Kostya, is as short as $1.50 with some bookmakers to win the fight, while Horn (20-2-1) is around

3:15 PM ET Tyson Fury has done a lot thinking about his future in recent years. After coming off a 2½-year hiatus from boxing, Fury resurrected his career in one of the most memorable heavyweight fights of the past 20 years against Deontay Wilder. On the eve of the rematch, with both men putting their

Feb 14, 2020 Heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries’ face looked like it had been run over by a herd of buffalo. He had a broken nose, cuts on both cheeks, gashes over both eyes and a torn ear. Today the fight would probably be stopped due to the champ’s horrific injuries, but it was 1902 and