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A little of this and a little of that from the boxing world: • Middleweight contender Andy Lee (29-2, 20 KOs), 28, of Ireland, gets back in action May 15 on promoter Lou DiBella's Broadway Boxing card at B.B. King Blues Club in New Yor...

Junior featherweight Carl Frampton of Northern Ireland is one of the best prospects in boxing and he has wanted a fight with European champion Kiko Martinez of Spain for some time. Twice, Martinez pulled out of the fight while working out his prom...

In October, Amir Khan's newly formed Super Fight Promotions announced that it had signed its second fighter: Ireland's John Joe Nevin, the 23-year-old who won the bantamweight silver medal in the 2012 London Olympics (beating Top Rank prospect Oscar ...

Often in boxing when a fight sounds too good to be true, it is. That was my feeling when I first heard that England's Tyson Fury (19-0, 14 KOs) would fight German-based Russia native Denis Boytsov (31-0, 25 KOs) on Dec. 1 in Belfast, Northern Ireland...

Olympic lightweight champion Katie Taylor of Ireland has rejected an opportunity to turn professional and plans to stay in amateur boxing to compete at the 2016 Rio Games.

Before he was Rob Roy, Col. Hannibal Smith or "Taken," action star Liam Neeson was the real thing -- an amateur boxer. In a recent visit to ESPN headquarters, Neeson offered his thoughts on the fight game.

Hot junior featherweight prospect Carl Frampton of Northern Ireland was supposed to take a step up in competition by facing former European champion Kiko Martinez on Sept. 22 at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but Martinez suffered an...

When Lennox Lewis tells a heavyweight British boxer to do something, that boxer usually listens.

Jose Ramirez and Errol Spence won their opening bouts to improve the Americans to 4-0, while Freddie Evans and Josh Taylor rode the home crowd's raucous cheers to a 3-0 start for Britain.

Middleweight contender Andy Lee says he still has much to prove as a professional, and he'll get his chance against titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. on Saturday in El Paso, Texas.

Three-time world champion Katie Taylor of Ireland qualified for the London Olympics women's boxing, defeating Saida Khassenova of Kazakhstan 20-8 in the 132-pound class at the world championships on Tuesday.

The heads of the international boxing and cycling federations are vying for a spot on the powerful IOC executive board.

Northern Ireland's Paul McCloskey (23-1,12 KOs), who lost a lopsided sixth-round technical decision in a junior welterweight title bout to Amir Khan last April, will face former titlist DeMarcus "Chop Chop" Corley on May 5 in Belfast, promoter Eddie ...

HBO boxing announcer Larry Merchant said Monday that Floyd Mayweather's victory over Victor Ortiz on Saturday in Las Vegas was the result of a "legal sucker-punch."

Ian Palmer knew little of the world of bare-knuckle boxing before it seduced him into documenting 12 years' worth of Ireland and England's underground fights and family feuds.

John Duddy, the popular New York-based middleweight from Ireland who was the personification of a boxing blood-and-guts warrior, abruptly announced his retirement on Tuesday.