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RARE UNDISPUTED CHAMP MAY BE CROWNED SATURDAY

- From staff and wire reports

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.

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