Top Rank Boxing: Terence Crawford v Amir Khan

World Championship Boxing returns to Madison Square Garden on Saturday, April 20^th as two of the sport’s biggest stars face off in the year’s most anticipated welterweight showdown when TERENCE “Bud” CRAWFORD puts his WBO Welterweight World Title on the line against the pride of Bolton, England, AMIR “King” KHAN.

Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs), from Omaha, Neb., is ranked by many experts as the world’s best fighter, a switch-hitting dynamo who has reigned supreme in three weight classes.  Crawford made history when he unified all four 140-pound titles in 2017 before moving up to Welterweight.  Crawford will be stepping into The Garden’s famed Boxing ring for the third time in his career.

Khan (33-4, 20 KOs) burst into the public consciousness at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens when, at 17 years of age, he captured a silver medal for Great Britain.  The lightning quick former unified 140-pound champion has won seven of his last eight bouts as he prepares to take on the pound-for-pound king in a legacy-defining superfight.

Before the main event, a pair of 21-year-old wunderkinds — Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson — will look to steal the show in their respective co-feature bouts.  Stevenson, the 2016 U.S. Olympic silver medalist, will tangle with former 130-pound world title challengerChristopher “Pitufo” Diaz in a 10-round featherweight bout. Lopez, the consensus 2018 Prospect of the Year and top lightweight contender, will face two-time European lightweight champion and former world title challenger Edis Tatli in a 10-rounder. Tatli is ranked No. 3 by the IBF and No. 10 by the WBC.

And, in a special attraction that will open the broadcast, Puerto Rican star Felix “El Diamante” Verdejo will fight former two-time interim super featherweight world champion Bryan Vasquez in a 10-round lightweight bout that will thrust the winner into the world title picture.

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