Boxing
BoxingTop Rank, ESPN formally extend deal until 2025, with 54 live events per year
Terence Crawford (L) lands a right hand on Jeff Horn while winning the WBO welterweight title in June in a bout streamed on ESPN+. Top Rank formally announced the extension of its television deal with ESPN on Wednesday, extending it through 2025, as first reported by Yahoo Sports. New details were announced about the partnership, including that 54 Top Rank boxing events a year will be broadcast on an ESPN platform.
BoxingChuck Giampa, one of boxing's elite judges in a 26-year career, dies after lengthy illness
Giampa worked 135 championship fights, including the infamous 'Bite Fight' between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson.
BoxingSpence Jr. needs to get past Ocampo before getting serious about Terence Crawford fight
Spence is in a neck-and-neck race with WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford and WBC lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko for supremacy as boxing’s pound-for-pound best.
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