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Josh “The Tartan Tornado” Taylor (19-0, 13KO) swirls over 3,000 miles to New York with the intention to do damage to American Teofimo “The Takeover” Lopez (18-1, 13KO).
The great Scot defends defend his WBO and Ring Magazine super-lightweight titles to the Brooklynite on Saturday, June 10 at Madison Square Garden.
Coverage begins on Sky Sports Action (Sky channel 407) at 10:30pm on Saturday night, which consists of all the build-up action, but the main event will start from 1am-6am on Sunday morning for UK viewers. for the U.S. Taylor-Lopez will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ at 10pm ET / 7pm PT.
All the weights and running order can be found below:
Josh Taylor 139.8 lbs
Teofimo Lopez 140 lbs
12x3 WBO and Ring Magazine super-lightweight titles
Judges: Steve Gray, Joe Pasquale and Benoit Roussel
Referee: Michael Griffin
Xander Zayas 152.8 lbs
Ronald Cruz 152.4 lbs
8x3 NABO & NABF super-welterweight titles
Robson Conçeicão 130.6 lbs
Nicolas Polanco 130 lbs
10x3 Super-bantamweight contest
Omar Rosario 139.2 lbs
Jan Carlos Rivera 138.4 lbs
8x3 Super-lightweight contest
Damian Knyba 261.4 lbs
Helaman Olguin 256.8 lbs
8x3 Heavyweight contest
Bruce Carrington 126.8 lbs
Luis Porozo 126.4 lbs
8x3 Featherweight contest
Henry Lebron 129.2 lbs
Carlos Ramos 129.6 lbs
10x3 Super-bantamweight contest
*The Jamaine Ortiz-Humberto Galindo fight was canceled as Ortiz was unable to make the weight.
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