Madison Square Garden warns brawlers of life bans before Lopez vs Stevenson

New York venue Madison Square Gardens issues informing earlier Teofimo Lopez vs Shakur Stevenson and Knicks vs Lakers bill.

Madison Square Garden says anyone warring astatine the arena threatens to beryllium “banned for life” aft determination were aggregate altercations astatine 1 of its events.

Video connected TMZ.com showed 2 fights breaking retired connected Friday, erstwhile fighters weighed successful for the boxing paper Saturday nighttime headlined by Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson. One of the videos showed a brawl starting arsenic Bill Haney, begetter of boxer Devin Haney, was conducting an interrogation adjacent the stage.

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“Violence volition not beryllium condoned astatine MSG crossed immoderate benignant of lawsuit including, hockey, basketball, boxing, concerts, oregon peculiar events,” Madison Square Garden said successful a statement. “If immoderate idiosyncratic is recovered to enactment successful convulsive activity, whether you are portion of the event, oregon a patron, you volition beryllium banned for beingness and incapable to be oregon enactment successful immoderate lawsuit crossed each our venues.”

The quality league Thursday for the rubric combat betwixt Lopez and Stevenson became heated arsenic the fighters connected signifier traded insults astir household members, with radical successful the assemblage besides shouting.

There was besides an altercation adjacent the cage connected November 15, erstwhile MSG hosted UFC 322.

The informing comes earlier a engaged play astatine the arena. Organisers said the boxing lawsuit is sold out, and connected Sunday, the Los Angeles Lakers sojourn the Knicks for a nationally televised crippled that could beryllium LeBron James’s last 1 astatine the arena.