Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterAug 3, 2023, 05:12 PM ET DALLAS — Things got physical on stage Thursday at the Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz news conference, after the two main-event fighters did their traditional faceoff. Both camps’ security teams got into a shoving match with punches thrown after things became heated between Paul, Diaz
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Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterAug 3, 2023, 09:51 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Former UFC champion Francis Ngannou will have Mike Tyson, one of the greatest and most feared heavyweight boxers of all time, in his corner when he faces Tyson Fury in
Mike Coppinger, ESPNAug 4, 2023, 12:19 PM ET Jack Catterall, ESPN’s No. 1 junior welterweight, will fight former four-division champion Jorge Linares on Oct. 21 in Liverpool, England, Matchroom Boxing announced Friday. Catterall, a 30-year-old Englishman, dropped a controversial split decision to Josh Taylor last February in a bid for the undisputed 140-pound championship. Following
Aug 5, 2023, 08:08 AM ET Next Saturday’s fight between British heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte has been cancelled after Whyte failed a pre-fight drugs test, promoters Matchroom announced on Saturday. The bout, Joshua’s latest fight as he charts his comeback to the top of the heavyweight division, was meant to take place at
Michael Rothstein, ESPN Staff WriterAug 6, 2023, 12:42 AM ET Close Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein. Amanda Serrano stuck her tongue out after the final bell, looking right at her old friend and sparring partner, Heather Hardy. Serrano
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterAug 6, 2023, 01:31 AM ET DALLAS — In Jake Paul’s war against MMA fighters, he remains undefeated. The YouTuber-turned-prizefighter defeated Nate Diaz via unanimous decision (97-92, 98-91, 98-91) Saturday night at a sold-out American Airlines Center. Paul hurt Diaz in the first round, and it seemed he would cruise or
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterAug 5, 2023, 07:57 PM ET Jake Paul takes on former UFC star Nate Diaz in a 10-round cruiserweight bout (catchweight of 185 pounds) at American Airlines Center in Dallas on Saturday (ESPN+ PPV, 8 p.m. ET). Paul (6-1, 4 KOs), 26, suffered a split-decision loss to Tommy Fury in his
Marc Raimondi Michael Rothstein Close Michael Rothstein ESPN Staff Writer Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein. Aug 6, 2023, 02:40 AM ET The Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz rivalry isn’t over. That much was clear following Paul’s unanimous decision
In the 1976 classic Taxi Driver, the protagonist Travis Bickle experiences just one moment of fleeting joy, the kind more commonly associated with the sort of person he can never be; the sort of person he watches from afar and envies, sometimes even hates. Its spark is Betsy, a girl he spies on from afar
IT WAS at a press conference to announce what would turn out to be Sugar Ray Robinson’s last fight in November 1965, where the legend of Don Elbaum was born. Looking to add a little sentimentality to the proceedings, Elbaum told the assembled media in Pittsburgh, that he had a surprise for the six-time world
ANTHONY JOSHUA is in limbo after today’s events. The former world heavyweight champion was just seven days away from getting his hands on long-time rival Dillian Whyte once again. Those plans went up in smoke at lunchtime when his promoter Eddie Hearn revealed on Twitter the shock news that “Whyte had returned adverse analytical findings
DILLIAN WHYTE has issued a statement in response to the news which broke earlier today that a drug test of his was returned with ‘adverse analytical findings’. Whyte was due to face Anthony Joshua next Saturday night at London’s O2 Arena in a rematch 15 years on from their first contest. Earlier today, Joshua’s promoter
ANOTHER date clash awaits boxing fans on October 21. That night in London Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez will look at one another like enemies rather than friends when they put their light-heavyweight world title aspirations on the line inside the O2 Arena. A couple of hundred miles further north a tale of past versus
THE heavyweight rematch between Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte is off. Scheduled for next Saturday (August 12) at London’s O2 Arena the announcement was made by show promoter Eddie Hearn on Twitter today (August 5) where he posted the following: “Today the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association [VADA} informed Matchroom, the Association of Boxing Commissions and the
CHRIS EUBANK JR believes he dominated the first three rounds of his first fight against Liam Smith before the Liverpudlian stopped him in the fourth. On September 2 both men return to the venue of their first encounter to fight one another at the AO Arena in Manchester once again. A rematch may not have
AFTER some gratuitous post-fight flashing and some deeply tasteless press conference sausage stunts, somehow Jake Paul seems like a bastion of normality in this realm we call ‘influencer boxing’. The 26-year-old returns to the ring in Dallas on Saturday for the first time since February and his one and only defeat as a professional boxer,
WHEN either watching or covering this sport, far more important than learning how to analyse matchups between two boxers is an understanding of the intricacies of one matchup in particular: Expectation vs. Reality. Often, of course, this tends to be a mismatch; as big a mismatch as you’ll find in a sport in which mismatches
THE last seven days saw two boxers, Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue, exhibit their special talents on the highest stages of their respective careers thus far. So good were each in their respective demolitions of Errol Spence and Stephen Fulton, the only question that remains unanswered is: Who out of the two of them can