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Fights Schedule

8x3 Lightweight bout
Teofimo Lopez vs. Vitor Jones Freitas

8x3 Super lightweight bout
Fazliddin Gaibnazarov vs. Jesus Silveira

8x3 Lightweight bout
Jamel Herring vs. Juan Pablo Sanchez

6x2 Lightweight bout
Mikaela Mayer vs. Baby Nansen

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8x3 Featherweight bout
Michael Conlan vs. Ibon Larrinaga

Follows

10x3 Welterweight bout
Carlos Adames vs. Alejandro Barrera

Follows

WBA and Ring Magazine World Lightweight Titles
Jorge Linares vs. Vasyl Lomachenko
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Junior welterweight Fazliddin Gaibnazarov (4-0, 2 KO), a 2016 Olympic gold medalist for Uzbekistan, became the first to knock out Jesus Silveyra (8-6-2, 3 KOs). He decked him twice in the fourth round and the referee stopped the fight after the second knockdown. Gaibnazarov looked good in his first fight since left elbow surgery.


Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer

Anyone tuning in on ESPN+

Hey Ruthie, can you please let me know how Nanson goes?
I know she isn't there to win
But still like to know.
We are getting the Fury/Sexton snoozefest live here, but not this one, even though a Maori Shelia is on the card

Teofimo Lopez wasted no time in finishing off Vitor Freitas in the fourth fight on the Vasiliy Lomachenko-Jorge Linares undercard Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

The talented, powerful lightweight prospect needed just one minute and four seconds to knock out Freitas in a scheduled eight-round bout. Lopez’s right hand appeared to graze the side of Freitas’ head, but Freitas went down and couldn’t get up before referee Anthony Chiarantano counted to 10.

Unlike his previous fight, the 20-year-old Lopez (9-0, 7 KOs) left the ring completely unscathed Saturday night. In his last fight, the Brooklyn-bred, Las Vegas-based Lopez easily out-boxed Juan Pablo Sanchez in their six-rounder, but not before he suffered a long cut over his left eye.

An accidental clash of heads caused that cut in the second round February 3 in Corpus Christi, Texas. It delayed his return to the ring for nearly two months. Before sustaining that cut, Lopez was scheduled to fight on the Jose Ramirez-Amir Imam undercard March 17 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

In the third fight on the Lomachenko-Linares undercard, Mikaela Mayer remained undefeated by beating up Baby Nansen during much of their one-sided, six-round lightweight bout.

Los Angeles’ Mayer, a 2016 Olympian, pushed the action from the opening bell and forced Nansen to fight off her back foot for almost all 12 minutes. The game Nansen tried her best to move and fend off Mayer, but her taller, stronger opponent was busier and more accurate throughout their fight.

The 27-year-old Mayer improved to 5-0. New Zealand’s Nansen (6-3-1), who hasn’t recorded a knockout as a professional, avoided losing by knockout for the first time in her 3½-year pro career, but accomplished little else.

Mayer landed an overhand right just before the end of the fourth round that forced Nansen to hold until the bell sounded.

Mayer picked up where she left off early in the fifth round, when she bloodied Nansen’s nose after landing a hard right hand. Mayer continued landing flush punches to Nansen’s head throughout the fifth round.
Mayer clocked Nansen with two left hooks in the first minute of the sixth round. She wobbled Nansen with an overhand right later in the sixth, but couldn’t finish her off.


In the bout before Mayer’s victory, lightweight contender Jamel Herring eventually followed his new trainer’s instructions to “get him out of here” by stopping Juan Pablo Sanchez in the fifth round of a scheduled eight-rounder.

Herring (17-2, 10 KOs), a 2012 Olympian from Coram, New York, won by fifth-round technical knockout when referee Anthony Chiarantano stopped the action because he had drilled Sanchez with a flurry of unanswered punches. The fight was stopped at 1:28 of the fifth round, with Sanchez still standing.

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Conlan gonna look for a stoppage or what?

6-0

I think Loma will land an astronomically high number of punches and stop Linares on cuts.

I feel like the ESPN commentators were reading a cue card for how the Adames/Barrera fight was supposed to go rather than watching the actual fight. Adames, for all his physical attributes and their hyping of him, was just not impressive.

Edit: double post

i thought he was solid but unspectacular. not really a standout performance but respectable. i thought he won 7-3 or 8-2

the hype on some of the espn shows has been crazy

Looking forward to this!

Get it started Toprank!!

Late money on Linares, which is often the case with a big underdog.

Lomachenko drops from a 1-20 favorite to close at 1-12.

Is this watchable on an android phone out in the middle of nowhere? If so, link por favor.

loma coming in

Linares looks hyped up.
He's really got a sweat going.

The real TBE in the ring right now.

Linares looks bigger...significantly.

1-0 Lomachenko

Is it me or does Linares look so much bigger than Loma?

2-0 Lomachenko

rd1 10 10 rd2 10 9 lin

Linares moves smartly and has very good hand speed.

But still easy to hit when he stands still.

Evander wrote: ↑12 May 2018, 21:34 2-0 Lomachenko

I could do a better job on r by r and I'm not even watching it!