Anthony Joshua and American Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller are said to have agreed to terms for a fight on June 1 in New York, according to the Metrol. Joshua’s purse for the fight is expected to be £19.3million [$24.83 million dollars). That’s a lot of money for what amounts to be a glorified mismatch for Joshua. Miller, 30, is said to be getting a purse of £5.41m [$6.96 million]. That number is hard to believe.

Junior middleweight contender Erickson Lubin says that Errol Spence Jr. is going to have too much size for Mikey Garcia in their fight on March 16, and he sees him easily winning the fight based on his size.

The main event of the night Reymart Gaballo weighed in the scales at 118.5 lbs while Japanese foe Yuya Nakamura came in slightly heavier at 119 lbs.

In the co-main event for the coveted WBA Asia Lightweight Title, Romero Duno weighed 134 lbs while Indian opponent came at 135 lbs.

Unbeaten WBC light welterweight champion Jose Carlos Ramirez (23-0, 16 KOs) weighed in at 138.6 pounds on Saturday for his title defense this Sunday, February 10 against #14 WBC fringe contender Jose Zepeda (30-1, 25 KOs) at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates— Up against “Barangay Ginebra” of Lebanon, Mighty Sports gave everything it can but its best was not enough, absorbing an 89-84 loss to Al Riyadi in their knockout semis duel Friday showdown in the 30th Dubai International Basketball Championship at the Shabab Al Ahli Club here.

Trainer Joe Gallagher says unbeaten WBA Super World super middleweight champion Callum Smith (25-0, 18 KOs) might move up to light heavyweight to challenge WBO champion Sergey Kovalev (33-3-1, 28 KOs) if he can’t get the other champions at 168 to fight him.

Saul Canelo Alvarez says he’s “already training” for his May 4 unification fight against IBF middleweight champion Danny Jacobs (35-2, 29 KOs) on Cinco de Mayo on DAZN. There’s almost three months to before the Jacobs fight, and Canelo (51-1-2, 35 KOs) is getting a jump on his competition in preparing for their fight.

Strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza says he’s hoping that the trainers for Mikey Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs) will be able to adequately prepare him for the daunting task ahead of him in his upcoming challenge of IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (24-0, 21 KOs) on March 16.

In an effort to get more time to finalize the Deontay Wider vs. Tyson Fury rematch, the purse bid for the fight, which was scheduled to take place on Tuesday, has been postponed for one week by the WBC.

The management for Fury and Wilder asked the World Boxing Council to have the purse bid postponed so that they could work on getting the fight deal done.

WBA "regular" welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is ready to fight the biggest names possible in the welterweight division.

Last year, Pacquiao signed up with powerful adviser Al Haymon - who works with nearly all of the biggest names in the welterweight division.

A few weeks ago, Pacquiao dominated Adrien Broner over twelve rounds to retain his title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

ESPN5 continues to support the emerging local boxing scene with two new events this Feb. 9 and 16.

Admission is FREE for both events, and will be aired live on 5 and via livestream on ESPN5.com.

FRISCO, Texas (Feb. 2. 2019) —Sergey Kovalev gained a measure of revenge, and in the process, regained his title. Kovalev bested Eleider Alvarez (24-1, 12 KOs) via unanimous decision to win the WBO light heavyweight world title, becoming a three-time world champion.

The scores were 116-112 (2X) and 120-108.