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McGregor bests Farooq in battle of undefeated Scottish bantamweights

Lee McGregor edged past Kash Farooq in a wildly entertaining bantamweight clash Saturday night in Glasgow, unifying two regional titles by split decision.

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Dominic Boesel, 30, scored an 11th-round knockout of Sven Forling (15-2, 7 KO) Saturday night in Halle, Germany to win the vacant WBA interim light heavyweight championship. Boesel (30-1, 12 KOs) took advantage of cumulative damage and used a late flurry to knock Forling down, at which time the referee immediately called the fight.

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Fury '100%' wants MMA bout

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Miocic: I would love to box Fury

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Hasanboy Dusmatov, 26, a southpaw, who won the 2016 Olympic light flyweight gold medal for Uzbekistan, will make his hastily arranged professional debut Saturday night on Golden Boy's Facebook Watch card Guanajuato, Mexico. Dusmatov, who is signed to promoter World of Boxing (which works with Golden Boy on some fighters) and trained by Joel Diaz at his Indio, California, gym, will face Mexico's Jesus Cervantes (9-7, 5 KOs) in a six-round junior flyweight bout. Days after Dusmatov won gold in Rio, it was announced that he was going pro with South African promoter Rodney Berman's Golden Gloves. However, the deal was never consummated and Dusmatov remained amateur until earlier this year.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer2d ago

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Unified junior middleweight titlist Julian “J Rock” Williams (27-1-1, 16 KOs), 29, is penciled in to make his first defense in Philadelphia, his hometown, against an opponent to be determined on Jan. 18 (Fox), a source with knowledge of the plans told ESPN. Williams has not fought since outpointing Jarrett Hurd to take his two belts in a fight of the year candidate in May. They were supposed to rematch in December, but Hurd ultimately declined to face him again, pushing Williams’ schedule back.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer2d ago

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Wilder-Ortiz 2: What's at stake in the rematch?

Deontay Wilder had some problems against Luis Ortiz in 2018. So why do it again?

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Santa Cruz motivated to make history vs. Flores

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Teofimo Lopez

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Teofimo Lopez continues to prepare for his December 14 date against IBF lightweight champion, Richard Commey. His camp is in Flemington, New Jersey, and former two-time world champion, Joey Gamache has been brought in to help out.

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Fringe lightweight contenders Carlos Morales and Mercito Gesta battled to a sixth-round technical majority draw in the main event of Golden Boy’s “Thursday Night Fights” card at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles. The bout was halted due to a cut over Morales’ left eye caused by an accidental head butt. One judge scored the fight 58-56 for Morales but the other two had it 57-57 apiece. In the co-feature, junior lightweight Jonathan Oquendo shut out Charles Huerta, 100-90 on all three scorecards.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer2d ago

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The vacant women's junior middleweight title fight between Claressa Shields and Ivana Habazin, which was supposed to be Oct. 5 but canceled at the weigh-in when Habazin trainer James Ali Bashir was attacked and injured, will be rescheduled for Jan. 10 on Showtime, possibly in Atlantic City, N.J., a source with knowledge of the plans told ESPN. The card will also include a junior welterweight title eliminator between Shohjahon Ergashev and Keith Hunter, who are both unbeaten, the source said. The winner would become mandatory for the secondary belt held by Mario Barrios.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer3d ago

The International Boxing Hall of Fame said Thursday that it will release the names elected for the class of 2020 on Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. ET. Inductees will be named in the modern, old-timer, pioneer, non-participant and observer categories as well as, for the first time, in the newly created women's modern and trailblazer categories. Members of the Boxing Writers Association of America and an international panel of historians cast votes that were due on Oct. 31. Inductions are set for June 14 at museum in Canastota, New York. The modern men's category is chock full of superstar names appearing on the 41-man ballot for the first time, including Bernard Hopkins, Juan Manuel Marquez, Shane Mosley, Carl Froch, Timothy Bradley Jr., Sergio Martinez, Jorge Arce, Vuyani Bungu, Joel Casamayor, Diego "Chico" Corrales, Antonio Tarver and Israel Vazquez.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer3d ago

Super middleweight titlist David Benavidez will make his next defense against mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim and the fight is penciled in for Jan. 25, Sampson Lewkowicz, Benavidez's promoter, told ESPN. Jan. 25 was the date being planned for a Fox PPV fight between unified welterweight titleholder Errol Spence Jr. and former titlist Danny Garcia with Benavidez-Yildirim on the undercard. But with Spence sidelined because of a recent car accident, it remains to be seen if there will still be a PPV event that date and, if so, what the main event would be.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer4d ago

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Do Herring, Haney and Saunders actually want what they're asking for?

Jamel Herring, Devin Haney and Billy Joe Saunders called out fellow titlists. Could they beat them?

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Herring lands knockdown of Roach

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KSI-Logan Paul 2 a win for boxing

Setting aside some of the sideshow aesthetics, there are enough positives to make Saturday's main event a success. So will there be more fights like this to come in the future?

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Logan Paul discusses his future in boxing moving forward...

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Jamel Herring

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Herring opens up about combating PTSD with fellow vets

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How a fallen hero shaped the course of Herring's future

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Why Marine Jamel Herring keeps fighting

Former U.S. Marine Jamel Herring has faced unimaginable traumas. Getting through them hasn't been easy, but his determination to do so has never been stronger.

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Ward: I'm not coming out of retirement to fight Alvarez

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Rafael: Canelo is my No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer

Dan Rafael believes Canelo Alvarez's done enough to be considered the pound-for-pound king.

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Atlas: Canelo thought he was the bigger fighter

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Canelo Alvarez loves puppies, giving gift bags and punching Mario Lopez

Canelo Alvarez's inner circle reveal the surprising private side of boxing's biggest superstar.

20dSteve Kim and Anna Katherine Clemmons

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