RARE UNDISPUTED CHAMP MAY BE CROWNED SATURDAY
While the sporting world obsesses over the Aug. 26 May weather-McGregor spectacle, a meaningful title fight between two undefeated champions will take place Saturday in Lincoln, Neb. At stake is the undisputed world championship at 140 pounds. The battle between Omaha’s
Terence Crawford (31-0, 22 KOs), one of the top pound-forpound fighters in the world, and Namibian Julius Indongo
(22-0, 11 KOs), who each own two of the four major belts, will be televised on ESPN (10 p.m. ET). The winner — provided it does not end in a draw — will become the third man in boxing ’s four-belt era to be the undisputed champ. Bernard Hopkins became undisputed middleweight champion when he beat
Oscar De La Hoya in 2004. Ten months later, Hopkins lost his titles by split decision to Jermain Taylor.