Lightweights clash at Madison Square Garden for WBO and WBA titlesTweet Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email him 2.44am GMT Hello and welcome to tonight’s lightweight title unification fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and José Pedraza. It’s a chance to see the two-time Olympic gold medalist from Ukraine, widely regarded as boxing’s greatest active fighter regardless of weight, bolster his pound-for-pound credentials by adding Pedraza’s title at 135lbs to the lightweight strap he won from Jorge Linares in May.The first of two televised undercard bouts has just concluded and if you blinked you missed it. The ascendent lightweight prospect Teófimo López, who competed for Honduras at the Rio Olympics, improved to 11-0 as a professional with a 44-second destruction of Mason Menard. A right hand over the top was the weapon of choice and it’s an instant knockout of the year candidate. López celebrated with a reverse backflip. The boy is one to watch.WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED. #TheTakeover#LomaPedraza pic.twitter.com/xVPMXoHE8o 2.31am GMT Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s Kevin Mitchell’s chat with Rocky Fielding, who will be fighting in this building a week from tonight. Related: Rocky Fielding: ‘To fight at Madison Square Garden is unbelievable’ Continue readingread full article
