4:42 PM ET Rob Brant’s most recent ring performance so impressed Top Rank promoter Bob Arum that on Tuesday he signed him to a multiyear co-promotional deal. Along with Greg Cohen and Rapacz Boxing, Top Rank will promote Brant, who will fight on Top Rank’s ESPN cards. On Oct. 20, in Las Vegas, Brant shut

2:55 PM ET Heavyweight contender Bryant Jennings, seeking another world title opportunity, and Oscar Rivas, looking for his first, will square off in a scheduled 12-round bout on Jan. 18 at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York, Top Rank announced on Tuesday. The fight will headline a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+

1:13 PM ET Martin Murray and Hassan N’Dam, both longing for another opportunity to fight for a middleweight world title, will square off with each other in an effort to get a step closer on Dec. 22 at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, promoter Frank Warren announced Tuesday. The bout will take place on the

9:37 PM ET Super middleweight Vijender Singh, a three-time Olympian from India, signed a multiyear promotional contract with Top Rank on Monday, the company announced. Singh (10-0, 7 KOs), 33, represented India in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics, taking home a bronze medal from the 2008 Beijing Games. Top Rank said Singh will make

3:02 PM ET Unified women’s middleweight world titleholder Claressa Shields is not going to waste any time getting back into the ring for her next defense. Shields, the two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist, cruised to a shutout decision over Hannah Rankin to retain her two 160-pound belts as well as add a vacant world title

There was much at stake when junior welterweight titlist Maurice Hooker and mandatory challenger Alex Saucedo squared off for the belt in Saucedo’s hometown of Oklahoma City. Besides the title, their undefeated records and the prospects of much bigger fights down the line for the fighters, the promoters also had a lot at stake on

11:52 AM ET Manny Pacquiao will return to the fight in the United States for the first time in two years when he will defend his secondary welterweight world title against former four-division titlist Adrien Broner. The fight, formally announced on Monday at a news conference in New York, will take place on Jan. 19

10:36 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Undisputed cruiserweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk is headed to the heavyweight division eventually but not for a showdown with unified world titleholder Anthony Joshua in April and not necessarily for his next fight, Usyk manager Egis Klimas told ESPN. With Joshua already scheduled to defend his three major belts

1:37 AM ET Steve KimESPN Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller (23-0-1, 20 KOs) continued his productive 2018 campaign by knocking out Bogdan Dinu (18-1, 14 KOs) in the fourth round at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane, Kansas. For Miller, a 30-year old native of Brooklyn, it was his third stoppage victory of the year as

12:17 AM ET Women’s unified middleweight champion, Claressa Shields was originally scheduled to have a showdown with the undefeated Christina Hammer this fall. But that fight was scrapped as Hammer fell ill and pulled out of the bout. But the 23-year old Shields (7-0, 2 KOs), a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was able to add

6:00 PM ET MEXICO CITY — Several factors motivate boxers at specific points in their careers. What is driving Canelo Alvarez to make history for his Dec. 15 super middleweight fight against Rocky Fielding is having the privilege to fight for the first time — and win — at the mecca of boxing known as

Nov 14, 2018 Steve KimESPN After getting knocked out by Danny Garcia in February, former lightweight world titleholder Brandon Rios announced his retirement from boxing. Yet this Saturday night, he will be facing Ramon Alvarez at the Kansas Star Arena in Mulvane, Kansas. And if he had it his way, this will be far from

1:06 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Junior welterweight world titleholder Maurice Hooker was a successful road warrior again on Friday night. Hooker, in the hometown of mandatory challenger Alex Saucedo, survived a hard knockdown in the second round and came back to stop Saucedo in the seventh of a wild action-packed fight as he retained

12:16 AM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — The eventual big prize is a fight with welterweight world titleholder Terence Crawford, but first the “Mean Machine” Egidijus Kavaliauskas had to get through Roberto Arriaza, and he did just that. Kavaliauskas, with blood pouring down the right side of his face and Crawford watching intently from ringside, knocked

2:52 PM ET Jarrell Miller, left, made quick work of Tomasz Adamek just last month, and he’s already back to building his heavyweight résumé. Ed Mulholland/DAZN Heavyweight contender Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller does not have anything against the undefeated Bogdan Dinu and was cordial and complimentary to him when they met face-to-face at a news conference

1:43 PM ET When lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury returned to the ring in June following a 31-month layoff caused by a slew of personal problems he did so having made a major change to his corner. Gone was his uncle and trainer Peter Fury, who was replaced by the heretofore unknown Ben Davison, who

10:20 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY — Vikas Krishan, a two-time Olympian and the most decorated amateur boxer in Indian history, signed a multiyear promotional agreement on Thursday to turn pro with Top Rank. Krishan — “The Indian Tank” — is on hand for Friday night’s Maurice Hooker-Alex Saucedo junior welterweight world title fight that headlines

Nov 15, 2018 Hughie Fury has been ordered to defend his British Heavyweight title against unbeaten challenger Joe Joyce. Hughie — the brother of Tyson Fury, who challenges Deontay Wilder for the WBC world heavyweight title on Dec. 1 — lost out to Kubrat Pulev in a final eliminator for the IBF heavyweight title last