WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump has granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially charged conviction.
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump has granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially charged conviction.
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump on Thursday granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, clearing Jack Johnson’s name more than 100 years after what many see as his racially-charged conviction.
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TORONTO (AP) Adonis Stevenson retained his WBC light-heavyweight title Saturday night after a majority draw with Badou Jack.
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OXON HILL, Md. (AP) Gary Russell Jr. successfully defended his WBC featherweight championship Saturday night, unanimously outpointing mandatory challenger Joseph Diaz.
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NEW YORK (AP) Vasiliy Lomachenko stopped Jorge Linares in the 10th round of their lightweight championship fight Saturday night, winning a title in his third weight class in just his 12th pro bout.
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NEW YORK (AP) Sergey Kovalev will defend his light heavyweight title against Eleider Alvarez on Aug. 4 in the first professional boxing match at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City.
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NEW YORK (AP) Vasyl Lomachenko is looking for something that Jorge Linares believes he can deliver.
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Gennady Golovkin made sure it was a short night, which was not surprising because he was fighting for short money.
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CARSON, Calif. (AP) Gennady Golovkin won his 20th consecutive middleweight title defense with a second-round knockout of Vanes Martirosyan on Saturday night.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Cecilia Braekhus was barely a teenager when she began sneaking out the window of her family home in Bergen, Norway, to train secretly as a kickboxer. Although she had an instinctive love for the excitement and discipline of combat sports, she wasn’t quite sure how to tell her parents.
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NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) Wanheng Menayothin improved to 50-0 on Wednesday, equaling the record of Floyd Mayweather Jr. by knocking out Panamanian opponent Leroy Estrada in a mandatory WBC mini-flyweight fight.
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Former world heavyweight champion David Haye is 37, has fought just three times in six years, and has an unfortunate knack of picking up injuries in and out of the ring.
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TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder thinks he’ll get the next shot at Anthony Joshua.
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NEW YORK (AP) Jarrell Miller remained unbeaten and made his case for a potential shot at heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua by winning a unanimous decision against Johann Duhaupas on Saturday night.
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NEW YORK (AP) Daniel Jacobs wants another shot at Gennady Golovkin. Jarrell Miller could get the next one at Anthony Joshua.
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DETROIT (AP) Two-time Olympic boxing champion Claressa Shields is looking to take over another division.
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CARSON, Calif. (AP) Gennady Golovkin finally has an opponent for his May 5 fight.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) Manny Pacquiao hasn’t entirely turned his back on a 16-year working relationship with trainer Freddie Roach.
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LONDON (AP) Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is returning to the ring after serving a doping ban.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) Jarrett Hurd used a 12th-round knockdown to secure a split-decision victory over Erislandy Lara and unify the IBF and WBA junior middleweight world titles on Saturday night.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Deontay Wilder says he’s ready to fight Anthony Joshua in a heavyweight unification bout, and is willing to travel overseas to make it happen.
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CARDIFF, Wales (AP) Alexander Povetkin of Russia is back on the cusp of another heavyweight world title fight after a brutal knockout of David Price on Saturday.
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CARDIFF, Wales (AP) The Latest on the Anthony Joshua-Joseph Parker fight (all times local):
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CARDIFF, Wales (AP) Either Anthony Joshua or Joseph Parker will be within one belt of becoming undisputed world heavyweight champion after they meet in a unification title fight in front of 78,000 fans at Principality Stadium later Saturday.
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CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) Federal officials have cited a New Jersey firm for a fatal construction accident that killed a former heavyweight boxing champ who was defeated by Larry Holmes.
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CARDIFF, Wales (AP) Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker have shed the pounds (kilograms) for their world heavyweight unification title fight on Saturday.
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LONDON (AP) Anthony Joshua predicts an early end. Joseph Parker is still deciding how he will end it.
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NEW YORK (AP) YouTube stars KSI and Logan Paul are taking their acts into the boxing ring.
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NEW YORK (AP) Jose Ramirez won his first world title Saturday night with a unanimous decision victory over Amir Imam to win the WBC’s vacant 140-pound belt.
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PARIS (AP) Olympic super heavyweight champion Tony Yoka has been given a suspended one-year ban by the French boxing federation for missing doping tests.
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