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Who will be crowned king?
Defending champion Terence Crawford faces off against former champion Shawn Porter. (1:38)
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The main event of a Top Rank on ESPN+ card will feature a WBO welterweight title fight between Shawn Porter and Terence Crawford. The time is 3:20.
Crawford won the belt by stopping Jeff Horn. He defended his title in a fourth-round knockout of Kell brook in November 2020. Porter is considered the toughest test of Crawford's career so far.
I respect everything that Shawn does. Crawford said at the news conference that Shawn is athletic, he can cut corners, he can bang, and he can move around in the ring. I'm not going to say that I don't respect anything he does. I will say that I do a lot of things better than Shawn.
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Porter is a two-time welterweight champion who has victories over Paulie Malignaggi, DannyGarcia, and others. Porter lost close fights against Errol Spence Jr. and Keith Thurman, but he is confident he can leave the ring with a victory against Crawford.
He is a great fighter. Porter said in a recent news conference that he dominates everyone he gets in the ring with. I want to be the one fighter that he can't dominate. I have everything that is required to beat Terence. It's time to take on this challenge.
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The fight is in progress.
The results are here.
Dogboe is the winner in the fight.
The best fight on the Crawford-Porter undercard was the one between Dogboe and Christopher Diaz.
There are punches.
Dogboe.
The man is named Diaz.
The total landed.
142
136
The total was thrown.
431
465
The percentage.
34%
30%
The man landed.
49.
26.
The jabs were thrown.
221
218
The percentage.
22%
12%
The power landed.
93
115
The power was thrown.
207.
251
The percentage.
42%
45%
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It lived up to the hype. Dogboe won a majority decision in the fight, 97-93, 96-94, 95-95. The crowd inside the arena had a mixed reaction to the decision as the scorecards were read.
Dogboe won five of the final six rounds according to Judge Tim Cheatham.
Dogboe was a former junior champion. The Ghanian pressed the action in the second half of the fight and pressed the Puerto Rican. Dogboe landed more than half of his power punches between the fifth and eighth rounds.
After the final bell, he jumped on the ropes and thought he had won the fight. He expressed his displeasure with the decision as he walked past.
"We're in Las Vegas," he said.
Lopez-Ochoa ended in no-decision after a clash of heads.
Adan Ochoa's fight against Adam Lopez was stopped after Round 2 due to a cut on his right eye.
An accidental clash of heads left Ochoa with a nasty gash over his right eye and resulted in a no-decision in the bout. The doctor stopped the fight after the second round.
Lopez said that he was busting him up after the fight. He was trying to find a way out.
This is very frustrating. I want to get back in the ring as soon as possible. I'm ready to take on anyone in the division.
Lopez and Ochoa were exchanging hard shots on the inside when their heads collided. Lopez was coming on strong in the second round but didn't get a chance to follow up. He was fighting for the first time since his loss. He scored a knockout in his previous outing.
Balderas stops the other in the fourth round.
Karlos Balderas dominated his opponent in their junior lightweight fight to score a victory.
Junior lightweight Karlos Balderas took advantage of a chance to stop.
Balderas landed a flurry of punches on his overmatched opponent to pick up a fourth-round win. Balderas stung the Ecuadorian with a right hook that opened the window for a fight. The prospect out of Santa Maria, California, was able to land a left uppercut and a right hand that forced the referee to stop the fight.
Balderas hit Cortez with a right hand in the first round and the mismatch was obvious. In the third round, Caiz hovered over the action and let Cortez make it to the bell. The judge scored the round 10-8 for Balderas.
Balderas picked up his second win in as many fights after he was defeated by Juan Rene Tellez.
Johnson scored a victory in his debut.
In his professional debut, Tiger Johnson defeated Antonius Grable.
Tiger Johnson had a big victory in his pro debut. In the first fight of the undercard, the prospect unleashed some big right hands to stop Grable.
Johnson forced a fourth round stop at the 1:54 mark of the fourth round. Johnson scored a knockout when he hit the fighter with a right hand in the second round. The referee stopped the fight after Grable was hurt again.
Tiger went over to the broadcast crew and said "I'm here" to Timothy Bradley Jr.
Still to come.
The title fight was for Crawford's WBO title.
The IBF title eliminator is Esquiva Falcao vs. Patrice Volny.
Janibek Alimkhanuly vs. Hassan N'Dam, 10 rounds.
