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By Max Meyer

Madison Square Garden is home to several top-notch sporting events every day this winter, and this weekend is no different. The world’s most famous arena is the site of a stellar Top Rank boxing card on Saturday night, and Caesars Sportsbook has odds up for five of those bouts.

The main event pits two veteran fighters up against each other for another shot of glory. Vasiliy Lomachenko, the former world champion in three weight classes, will square off against Richard Commey for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental title.

This is Lomachenko’s (15-2) second fight of 2021, as he defeated Masayoshi Nakatani with a ninth-round TKO back in June. Commey (30-3) picked up his 30th career victory this past February with a knockout in the sixth round against Jackson Marinez.  

Lomachenko is currently -800 chalk at Caesars Sportsbook over Commey (+550), and Caesars Sportsbook bettors are siding with the favorite. Lomachenko has snatched 58% of the total number of tickets and 94% of the total dollars wagered to win this fight vs. Commey.

“Usually in a fight, we need the favorite,” said Adam Pullen, Assistant Director of Trading at Caesars Sportsbook. “On a lopsided price like this, people will go and want to bet on Lomachenko, but they’ll see the odds and see that it doesn’t win that much money. So they’ll end up betting the underdog because of the better payout. We actually have liability on Lomachenko just because there’s parlays riding into him, a lot of people like doing those on big favorites just like in any sport.”

Another big favorite on the card comes in the heavyweight co-feature, where rising star Jared Anderson looks to continue his perfect record. Anderson, who is 10-0 with 10 KOs, is listed at -2200 over Oleksandr Teslenko (+1100). Teslenko has compiled an impressive resume of his own with a 17-1 mark. He started off 16-0 before losing for the first time against Shawndell Winters in 2019, however he rebounded with a third-round knockout over Cesar David Crenz in June.

The heaviest favorite for this event, though, is Xander Zayas. Zayas enters his super welterweight fight with Alessio Mastronunzio 11-0, including five triumphs in 2021. Zayas is positioned at -4000, whereas Mastronunzio is at +1100 to pull off the upset.

Nico Ali Walsh, the grandson of Muhammad Ali, will also put on the gloves tomorrow night at MSG. Walsh has won his first two fights and both were by knockout, and he’s residing at -1500 to make it three in a row against Reyes Sanchez (+800) in a middleweight showdown.

Check out Caesars Sportsbook’s latest odds for every available fight for tomorrow night’s Top Rank boxing card at MSG below.