Terence Crawford: record, next fight and profile →
According to Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, he tried to warn everyone about the talent level of WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn (17-0-1, 11 KOs). Earlier this month, Horn pulled of a major upset when he won a twelve round unanimous decision over eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao, who was an overwhelming favorite coming into the fight.
UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson won the ESPY for “Best Fighter” on Wednesday night at ESPN’s annual awards show in Los Angeles. Johnson beat out UFC superstar Conor McGregor and boxers Terence Crawford, Gennady Golovkin and Andre Ward to win the award, which recognizes the achievements of boxers and mixed martial artists. The winner was announced as part of the 25th annual ESPY Awards, which aired on ABC from the Microsoft Theater.
Since early last year, fans were clamoring for a showdown between two of Top Rank's most talented fighters, Manny Pacquiao and Terence Crawford. That fight, more or less, went down the tubes two weeks ago, when Pacquiao was upset over twelve rounds by big underdog Jeff Horn, who captured the Filipino star's WBO welterweight title at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.
The rumble between Crawford, the two-division world champion and the holder of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), World Boxing Council (WBC) and The Ring magazine world titles and Indongo, the International Boxing Federation (IBF), International Boxing Organization (IBO) and World Boxing Association (WBA) world champion, making his U.S. debut, will be televised live and exclusively at 10 p.m. EDT on ESPN and ESPN Deportes and stream live on the ESPN app.
Julius Indongo has every reason to feel confident about boxing Terence Crawford next month in Crawford’s home state of Nebraska.The unbeaten Namibian southpaw is a decided underdog against Crawford, but he has convincingly won each of his past two world title fights in the respective homelands of his opponents.
Terence Crawford watched in shock Saturday night as his biggest potential payday all but went away. Before unknown Australian underdog Jeff Horn upset Manny Pacquiao in Brisbane, the undefeated Crawford at least held out hope that he would finally fight Pacquiao either later this year or early in 2018. That possibility became a lot less likely when Michael Buffer announced Horn had won his fight against Pacquiao on all three scorecards at Suncorp Stadium (117-111, 115-113, 115-113).
New York - If there’s two fighters who have some sort of connection without ever fighting each other, it may be Mikey Garcia (36-0. 33 KO’s) and Terence Crawford 31-0, 22 KO’s). While Garcia was still under the Top Rank banner in 2014, he was slated to face Yurioirkis Gamboa (26-2, 17 KO’s). The fight between Garcia and Gamboa fell though and Crawford stepped in - and pulled off a career-defining performance by knocking out Gamboa. The outcome helped Crawford become a rising star in the sport of boxing.
By Keith Idec - Bob Arum claims this isn’t the start of a Manny Pacquiao retirement tour. After the 38-year-old Pacquiao faces overmatched Australian underdog Jeff Horn on Sunday in Brisbane, Australia, Pacquiao’s promoter expects to bring back the Filipino legend for a pay-per-view-worthy fight som...
Freddie Roach , trainer of WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, is not ready to give up on a rematch with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather won a twelve round decision over Pacquiao in May 2015. The fight was the richest in boxing history, with a record smashing 4.6 million pay-per-view buys and over $600 million in revenue.
World Boxing Council lightweight champion Mikey Garcia (36-0 30 KOs) is preparing himself for the biggest fight of his career, on July 29, when he moves up to the junior welterweight division to face former four division world champion Adrien Broner (33-2 24 KO). Garcia clarified that he will return to lightweight after his fight against Broner.