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Top Rank Host Series at Virgin Hotel Casino in Las Vegas

Miguel Maravilla


Top Rank will host their ESPN series at the Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, part of Curio Collection by Hilton, owned by JC Hospitality, LLC. The debut event, Saturday, May 22 inside The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas as undisputed junior welterweight world championship showdown between WBC/WBO champion Jose Ramirez and Scotland’s WBA/IBF champion Josh Taylor (ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+, 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PT). In the 10-round junior welterweight co-feature, two-time world title challenger Jose “Chon” Zepeda will now face Philadelphia's “Hammerin” Hank Lundy.

Three weeks later, Saturday, June 12 undefeated former featherweight world champion Shakur Stevenson, from Newark, New Jersey, fights Namibian contender Jeremiah Nakathila for the WBO interim junior lightweight world title. On Saturday, June 19, Japan's undefeated Naoya “Monster” Inoue defends his IBF and WBA bantamweight world titles against Filipino Michael “Hot and Spicy” Dasmarinas.

The grand finale at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas features former three-weight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenkoagainst Masayoshi Nakatani in the 12-round lightweight main event.


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