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Vasyl Lomachenko • Teófimo López • Boxing

Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. Teofimo Lopez Jr. fight predictions: Undercard, odds, expert picks, date The massive lightweight unification bout is set for Saturday night in Las Vegas Trash-talking time having now come and gone as it pertains to the bad blood boiling between lightweight champions  Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez Jr.  (and their respective father/trainers), the focus turns to the matchup itself entering Saturday's must-see clash to crown an undisputed champion at 135 pounds.  Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs) for one is excited about that fact as he brings his trio of world lightweight titles (WBA, WBO, WBC) to face off against Lopez's IBF crown inside the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas ( Live on ESPN and fuboTV, which you can  try for free , at 10 p.m. ET ) following nearly an entire year of insults slung between them.  "I feel great and I'm saving my emotions for Saturday night," Lomachenko said during an interview with CBS Sports' "Morni...

Honest Thief

Liam Neeson doesn't steal much more than your time in 'Honest Thief' (CNN) By the standards of Liam Neeson thrillers (and there are a lot from which to choose), "Honest Thief" is pretty weak tea, a passable, low-octane action movie that doesn't do much more than steal one's time. Like second-tier John Wayne westerns, Neeson offers enough of what his fans want, but a thin script and stilted dialogue make the battle harder than usual. In "Taken," its sequels and similarly themed fare since -- a la  "The Commuter"  and  "Cold Pursuit"  -- Neeson has carved out a niche as a likable guy who's easy to root for and a very, very bad idea to cross. That's essentially the formula here, although the template actually proves closer to something like "FX" -- where the protagonist uses his specialized skills to fight the bad guys -- than the most obvious comparisons to Neeson's filmography. Neeson plays Tom Carter, a f...

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