Steve Carr
Israel Adesanya and Sean Strickland continued their verbal jousting Thursday, with American fighter Strickland racially taunting middleweight champion Adesanya during the UFC 293 news conference. Strickland continued to mock Adesanya’s connections to China, where Adesanya started his professional…
Steve Carr
Undisputed super middleweight champion Savannah Marshall is the latest female fighter in the ESPN boxing pound-for-pound top 10 to make a foray into mixed martial arts. Marshall, ESPN’s No. 10 pound-for-pound fighter, revealed Tuesday she…
Steve Carr
Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s top star, is planning his second fight of 2023 and two leading candidates have emerged: Jermall Charlo and Badou Jack. Alvarez, the undisputed super middleweight champion, and his trainer/manager, Eddy Reynoso, met…
Steve Carr
Israel Adesanya didn’t just exorcise his demons. He put them to sleep. Alex Pereira defeated Adesanya three times, twice in kickboxing and twice by knockout. On Saturday night, Adesanya returned the favor and got the albatross off…
Steve Carr
Jermell Charlo suffered a broken left hand, and his Jan. 28 undisputed junior middleweight title fight versus Tim Tszyu has been postponed, Charlo announced Saturday. The fight for Charlo’s four 154-pound titles, which was set…
Steve Carr
John Ryder claimed the WBO world interim super middleweight title after Zach Parker was forced to pull out at the end of the fourth round with a suspected broken right hand. Ryder (32-5, 18 KOs),…
Steve Carr
After the final bell and 36 rounds together, Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin shared a long embrace, apparently ending a feud that grew personal over the five years since they first met in the ring.…
Steve Carr
The Claressa Shields-Savannah Marshall fight for the undisputed middleweight championship is expected to take place either Sept. 3 or Sept. 10 in the United Kingdom, a source confirmed to ESPN. This comes after Ben Shalom,…
Steve Carr
Savannah Marshall made quick work of Femke Hermans on Saturday, stopping her with a crunching left hook in the third round to set up a summer showdown with rival world middleweight champion Claressa Shields. Marshall…
Steve Carr
One of the most anticipated rematches in recent memory is here when a champion and former titleholder collide in the main event of UFC 271. Middleweight king Israel Adesanya will look to turn back the…
Steve Carr
Derek Brunson has fought just about anyone who is anyone in the UFC’s middleweight division. The one thing he had been searching for is that signature triumph to push him into the title picture. On Saturday,…
Steve Carr
Jared Cannonier has been in the UFC for six years, competing in three weight divisions. He is closer to 40 years old than 30. Yet on Saturday night, the former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employee put…
Steve Carr
Israel Adesanya’s meteoric rise to UFC superstardom hit a rather large barrier Saturday night. Jan Blachowicz beat the previously undefeated Adesanya by unanimous decision (49-46, 49-45, 49-45) to keep his light heavyweight title in the main…
Steve Carr
Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s biggest superstar, put on a dominant show Saturday night to cap the 2020 major fight slate, cruising to a unanimous decision victory over previously undefeated champion Callum Smith and winning the WBA,…
Steve Carr
Middleweight Kevin Holland’s main event opportunity has been scrapped after he tested positive for COVID-19 one week out from his headline bout at UFC on ESPN 19. Holland was due to take on Jack Hermansson after agreeing…
