Manny Pacquiao’s MP Promotions on Tuesday won the purse bid at the IBF offices in Springfield, New Jersey, for the right to promote the fight between strawweight world titlist DeeJay Kriel, of South Africa, and mandatory challenger Sammy Salva, who is from the Philippines and promoted by Pacquiao. MP Promotions, which was the only bidder, won with an offer of $25,000. Kriel is entitled to 65 percent ($16,250) and Salva gets 35 percent ($8,750). MP Promotions’ Sean Gibbons told ESPN the fight will take place Aug. 24 in Manila, Philippines. Kriel will be making the first defense of the 105-pound belt he won by 12th-round knockout of Carlos Licona in February in Los Angeles.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer2d ago

Featherweight Shakur Stevenson, a 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist and one of boxing’s elite prospects, is in need of a new opponent for his Top Rank Boxing on ESPN 10-round main event on July 13. Initial opponent, the unbeaten Hairon Socarras, is out of the fight over various issues, according to Top Rank, which is in the process of securing a new foe for what will be Stevenson’s first professional fight in his hometown, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer2d ago

Weights from Chiba, Japan, for Wednesday’s UFC Fight Pass main event (8 a.m. ET): Kazuto Ioka 115 pounds, Aston Palicte 115 (for a vacant junior bantamweight world title).

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer2d ago