On July 23rd Terence Crawford (28-0) will face Viktor Postol in Las Vegas in a HBO distributed pay-per-view super lightweight unification bout. Crawford's WBO and Postol's WBC titles will both be at stake.
Terence Crawford vs. Viktor Postol takes place Saturday, July 23 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. The HBO Sports Special, Terence Crawford: My Fight, debuts Saturday, July 9 at 11:15 p.m. on HBO.
WBO junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) is not impressed with Viktor Postol's biggest career win, a tenth round knockout of heavy-hitter Lucas Matthysse.
Pound for pound superstar Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) has admitted that his future lies up at welterweight - although he’s more than happy to continue plying his trade at 140-pounds for now.
Next month, WBO junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs) will make his pay-per-view debut, when he faces WBC world champion Viktor Postol (28-0, 12KOs) in a unification.
Terence Crawford (28-0, 20KOs), who holds the WBO super lightweight championship, will soon be up against his biggest test: undefeated Viktor Postol of Ukraine, which is regularly churning out title contenders. Postol also is 28-0, with 12 knockouts, and owns the WBC title.
Based on their promotional and network affiliations, the Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol fight ideally would be televised live on HBO. But based on what Crawford and Postol expected to be paid to fight each other July 23 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, pay-per-view was the route promoter Bob Arum decided to take to ensure that their 140-pound championship unification fight was scheduled for this summer. Official pricing hasn’t been announced, but the HBO Pay-Per-View card featuring the Crawford-Postol fight is expected to cost $50 in SD and $60 in HD if purchased through most cable and satellite companies.
NEW YORK – Terence Crawford understands Viktor Postol’s reluctance to fight Crawford in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. Crawford never actually asked to have their junior welterweight showdown in Omaha, but Postol’s handlers made it clear that they wanted to face Crawford in neutral territory. They’ll fight July 23 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (HBO Pay-Per-View).
WBO junior welterweight champion Terence 'Bud' Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs) from Omaha, Nebraska will have the toughest test of his career, when he faces undefeated World Boxing Council super lightweight champion Viktor Postol (28-0, 12 KOs) from Kiev, Ukraine on July 23rd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, to be broadcast through HBO Pay-Per-View.
Vadim Kornilov, manager of WBC junior welterweight world champion Viktor Postol (28-0, 12KOs) of Ukraine, expects a very big upset when his fighter face WBO champion Terence Crawford (28-0, 20 KOs), a two-division world champion who has won four of his last five bouts by knockout, in a junior welterweight unification.