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2017年8月5日,美国洛杉矶微软大剧院,WBO次轻量级记(130磅)拳王,乌克兰神童瓦西里 洛马琴科(8-1, 6 KOs),面对挑战者米盖尔马里亚加(25-2, 21 KOs)。由ESPN网络平台转播。
马里亚加 4月22日在美国加利福尼亚 卡森 StubHub 体育中心挑战 WBO羽量级(126磅)拳王 墨西哥人 奥斯卡 瓦尔德斯(22-0, 19 KOs)失利。
2017年8月19日,美国内布拉斯加林肯郡Pinnacle 银行竞技场,WBC/WBO超轻量级(140磅)双冠王美国人 特伦斯克劳福德(31-0, 22 KOs),将和IBF/IBO/WBA超轻量级三冠王纳 米 比 亚 人,朱利叶斯 因多戈(22-0, 11 KOs)进行超轻量级四大拳击组织全面统一战。由ESPN网络平台转播。
此前因多戈击败了WBA超轻量级拳王英国人里奇 本斯(此君早是克劳福德的剩菜),统一了IBF/WBA两个拳击组织。
Promoter Top Rank announced its next two main events late Thursday night in its new partnership with ESPN. The basic-cable network will air a super featherweight title bout between champion Vasyl Lomachenko and Miguel Marriaga on August 5. Two weeks later, ESPN will broadcast a full 140-pound championship unification fight that’ll match Terence Crawford against Julius Indongo. Ukraine’s Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs), who owns the WBO 130-pound championship, and Colombia’s Marriaga (25-2, 21 KOs) will square off at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Crawford (31-0, 22 KOs), the WBC/WBO super lightweight champion, will encounter Namibia’s Indongo (22-0, 11 KOs), the IBF/IBO/WBA 140-pound champion, at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, about a one-hour drive from Crawford’s hometown of Omaha.
Lomachenko and Crawford are generally regarded as two of the top five boxers, pound-for-pound, in the sport. While facing Indongo represents a shot a full unification for the highly skilled Crawford, Lomachenko’s opponent is coming off a loss. Mexico’s Oscar Valdez (22-0, 19 KOs), the WBO featherweight champion, defeated Marriaga by unanimous decision in their 12-round fight April 22 at StubHub Center in Carson, California. “Pound for pound, no one can match the talent of Vasyl Lomachenko and Terence Crawford,” Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN.com. “They drew the best ratings on premium cable this year [HBO], and now everyone will be able to see them when they defend their world titles in all-action fights in August, live on ESPN.” Crawford and Lomachenko have become two of the most-watched fighters in bouts broadcast by HBO over the past couple years, but ESPN is available in millions more homes than HBO. ESPN’s partnership with Bob Arum’s Top Rank will officially begin Saturday night, when the network will televise the Manny Pacquiao-Jeff Horn welterweight title fight from Brisbane, Australia, Horn’s hometown. Their scheduled 12-round fight for Pacquiao’s WBO welterweight title will take place Sunday afternoon in Brisbane, where a crowd of 60,000 is expected at Suncorp Stadium, but it will air Saturday night in the United States at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The Philippines’ Pacquiao (59-6-2, 38 KOs) is a 6-1 favorite over the unbeaten but unknown Horn (16-0-1, 11 KOs), the No. 1 contender for Pacquiao’s championship. |
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