Hello and welcome to New York for tonight’s welterweight title fight between Terence Crawford and Amir Khan. We’re ringside at Madison Square Garden with a little more than an hour until a main event that pitches Khan, the 2004 Olympic silver medalist from Bolton, againstCrawford, the WBO champion at 147lbs widely regarded as one of the two best pound-for-pound fighters in the world along with Vasiliy Lomachenko.
We’re still in the undercard here at the Garden with Shakur Stevenson (10-0, 6 KOs), who win a silver medal for the United States at the Rio Olympics, having just climbed through to ropes to face Puerto Rico’s Christopher Diaz (24-1, 16 KOs) in a 10-round featherweight bout. Next Teofimo Lopez (12-0, 10 KOs), the rising lightweight sensation from Brooklyn, will face Finland’s Edis Tatli (31-2, 10 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round scrap.
And then it’s Crawford and Khan. Plenty more to come between now and then.