Category: Top Rank

Nearing Takeover: Split-T Management’s Teofimo Lopez ready for Lomachenko tomorrow night in Las Vegas

    NEW YORK (OCTOBER 16, 2020)--Tomorrow night at the MGM Grand "Bubble" in Las Vegas, IBF Lightweight world champion, Teofimo Lopez (15-0, 12 KOs) squares off with WBA/WBO/WBC Franchise world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs) in the most anticipated bout of 2020.  Lopez is managed by Split-T Management and promoted by Top Rank. The fight, which will be shown live on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN + (Prelims at 7:30 PM ET, with the main card beginning approx. at 10 PM) has been front and center in the minds of boxing fans from all over the world for nearly a year when Lopez won his title with a sensational 2nd round destruction of Richard Commey on December 14, 2020 at Madison Square Garden. Lomachenko, Read more [...]

Laureano-Rodriguez and Toussaint-Jones – Ready to Bring the Action at the Bubble

Friday, August 21, 2020 (Las Vegas, Nevada)  #4 world rated (WBO), JOE "THE BEAST" SMITH JR (25-3 20KO's) and #3 world rated (WBO), ELEIDER "STORM" ALVAREZ (23-1 13KO's) tipped the scaled today at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, ahead of their WBO World Title Eliminator main event on ESPN+ tomorrow night. Smith Jr. came in at a strong, 174.9 lbs. and Alvarez came in at a ready, 174.6 lbs. The winner of tomorrow nights main event will face off with the winner of Umar Salamov vs Maxim Vlasov for the WBO Light Heavyweight Championship of the World. PHOTO CREDIT: MIKEY WILLIAMS/ TOP RANK On the undercard, 2018 Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame Fighter of the Year, "ACTION" ANTHONY LAUREANO (13-0 4KO'S) weighed in at 145.9 lbs, while heralded undefeated Read more [...]